A decent end to disaster movie-making by Roland....

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2009)

There is something about the Roland Emmerich style of movie making which makes it very ordinary and cliché'd for my liking.
----------------- It is not the fact that the movies are all disaster movies, or even the fact that they have decent special effects... It is to do with the fact that there are only a handful of smart folks saving the world, and they are all Americans... the rest of the world, is obviously at their mercy
----------------- 2012 is a good disaster movie. While it doesn't connect with you in the way an Independence Day does, it works in amazing you with probabilities of a complete catastrophe. It brings to life the foretelling around the 2012 events predicted to end the world
-----------------The massive volcano, the Tsunami, the earthquakes, shifting of the earth are all here...
----------------- So yes, the hero is able to dive from the volcano eruptions, dive into water where there is sheer death, help fly a plane, save the last ship on this earth etc etc... but that is what makes it fun... We all like to see some survive, and it makes good celebrations at the end... and that is what disaster movies are all about... The undying spirit of survival and the human angle in decision making...
-----------------Overall , a good entertainer....