What went wrong? SPOILERS.

Rating: 2/10 (14 November 2009)

Let me start off first by saying that the special effects were pretty good. Maybe even the best ever. And if you like Roland Emmerich movies your going to like this. Now that the only positive thing I have to say is out of the way, let's move on to why this movie is a total disgrace to the art of film. This is an Emmerich movie. If your familiar with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW (hated it), 10,000BC (didn't like it), and INDEPENDENCE DAY (actually liked this one), then you know how this goes. Somehow this ends up in the hands of the high government; Roland makes the govt. look like bad guys;and the world blows up, goes underwater, or gets taken down by aliens.
I have no idea why this movie tries to be funny. Cusack is running from the giant earthquake tearing up the road behind him,and ends up behind 2 ninety-year-olds going 20MPH. Why? Why would you randomly cut to disaster scenes after emotional final goodbyes?(Sistine Chapel). Why are there cameras everywhere? On the (big Spoiler) arcs how do they find the perfect closeup of John Cusack? It doesn't make sense why they put this in the film. Oh yeah cheesy lines.Lots!!! (It's Russian!!)
But my biggest problem is the characters. There are simply to many. (SPOILER) At one point in the movie, one minor character calls his father who is doing a show on a cruise ship to say goodbye. His partner who he is doing the show with calls Japan to his estranged son in Japan. His daughter picks up the phone and finally meets her grandpa before the phone line dies. That is a minor character who calls an even less important person. That person's partner calls an even less important person, etc. It's just to much.
The effects can only carry this movie so far. Yet another fail to Roland E. movie career. He'll be back in a couple of years to blow some more crap up. Until then, this disaster is what he left us.
2** out of 10