This is what happens when special effects drive the story

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2010)

2012 is not just another end of the world film; its the dumbest of the lot. Knowing, had some intense emotion; deep impact had drama; the day the world stood still and the day after tomorrow had a message. 2012 has none of that. It has special effects of plane dodging around earthquakes, falling buildings, and volcanic bombs and ash. The story is basically some scientist find out the world is doomed to have catastrophic disasters -- that apparently happen every 600,000 year if I recall correctly. Nutrinos then mutate (nutrinos don't mutate because they are not alive) and start reacting with the core heating it up and causing the crust to destabilize and move. If they had change to become reactive, why would they react on the core and not the crush.... ahahahahahaha logic does not work with the mess of a plot. Although one would think that magma would be the first sign of the impending disaster, no, its non-tectonic earthquakes that are the first sign. Anyway to save parts of humanity, the governments of the world team up and build arks (as in Noah's ark) to save life as we know it - well the very rich and important people anyway. But instead of building them on the coast where they could be launched they build them in the mountains where they'd be crushed during earthquakes... But wait only one is damaged by an earthquake. Add to this the government that keep it all a secret for some unstated reason... why not give everyone a change to buy their own boat and have a chance to survive.
Anyway. the fact real tsunamis are only dangerous on land and barely register out in the open sea is never mentioned... apparently these Tsunamies are unique and require mountain top arks to survive. and these tsunamis stay on land for quite some time, but the film does not explain why these tsunamis defy gravity so well -- this is something about ocean floor stability is some confused non-sense in the background.
Everest is flooded by a wave 1500 metres high -- math was not a strong point of the directors I think. Oh, and lets not forget that China moves 1000 miles and yet only one ark is damaged in the ensuing earthquake... compare this to the Indonesian earthquake/tsunami that was around 9 on the Richter scale that moved the ocean floor a 100 feet or so... how could China move 1000 miles would out the mountain caves collapsing!!!!! OK, yes you go to a movie to be entertained, but this movie was not entertaining it was just a stupid film designed entirely around the special effects with not a moments thought to creating a satisfying story. It was not entertaining because it was not interesting to be entertaining.
With all the man made disasters that are much more probable, having a film maker stir up the audience with a silly contrived film about an improbable global disaster is just irresponsible. Its seemed designed to distract the audience from the more real disasters we are busy creating for ourselves (polutions, CO2, depleted oceans, dead patches in the oceans, ozone depletion etc.).