The end of world? No, but the end of film perhaps.

Rating: 1/10 (2 November 2010)

The most breathtakingly bad film I have seen in years, this idiotic agglomeration of CGI cataclysms began with laughable pseudo-science and mystical Mayan hokum before blithely skipping through laughable set-piece after set-piece. There wasn't a moment where the Lucky Family That Survives wasn't a few feet away from seething magma, tumbling tube trains or colliding skyscrapers. While films of the worst sort are sometimes made bearable by the very idiocy of their plots, this piece of flavourless chewing gum just kept giving back the same cardboard taste, with plot and script fitted into the tiny cracks between the action scenes. An apocalypse of sorts, this film has convinced me to never see another film by Emmerich and also to avoid anything generated on a computer that wasn't made by Pixar. Sad, sad, sad.