Horrible and I've seen it all before

Rating: 3/10 (27 November 2010)

I've grown really tired watching movies with implausible plots such as this; world tragedy, quick-paced solutions, and impossible scenarios of survival. I saw this on "On Demand" and I question why I made such a decision. The acting sucks - typical of a Roland Emmerich movie - with wooden performances and no emotion felt for any of the characters; I did not connect with any of the multitude of characters you're supposed to feel sorry for (too many to count). The technology used in "2012" on the ark is typical of the quick "we-need-to-fill-in-the-impossible-holes-to-fill" with impossible digital video tracking systems. Much like Enemy of the State, there are cameras everywhere (really? In the rear gate closing gear mechanisms?) and they have facial identifying technology so it makes it easier for the "officials" to locate the people they need at those pivotal times when they need to. Sadly, I fell asleep. I seem to have that problem with movies of this type where it takes forever to lead up to some kind of story. From what I've seen, however, just watch "Day after Tomorrow" with Dennis Quaid (end-of-the-world apocalyptic events), "Godzilla" with Matthew Broderick (end-of-New-York-City apocalyptic events) and snippets of "Independence Day" with "Bill Pullman" (just parts of the apocalyptic events) and you've seen "2012." The only thing missing from this turd of a movie is Jabba the Hutt's talk with Han Solo in the ark. Emmerich said this would be his last apocalyptic movie... just in time.