Puts the disaster into disaster movie.

Rating: 1/10 (9 June 2020)

Okay, spoilers here. The movie starts out okay, with the world ending, everyone's going to die, etc. It starts to feel like the ultimate disaster movie, if a bit corny with all the neutrinos and Mayans. (Also, count the number of sequences where John Cusack is in a vehicle moving really fast with all the ground behind him breaking up as if saying, "So long, you won't be needing me anymore!").
Then.
After two hours, in one of the most flagrant displays of Chinese butt-kissing in an industry currently rife with it, we learn that the clever Chinese have built giant arcs to save humanity while the rest of the world was flailing their arms and wailing in panic. The main character (John Cusack, somehow looking less washed-up then he really is) and his family, who have already witnessed everyone they know get killed, weasel their way onto the difficult-to-get-onto Chinese arks and it's here when you start pleading "No, Roland Emmerich. Please don't do this."
Too late, and he does. The Chinese arks, after a lot of meaningless drama, save everyone who could afford them, and they all has a happy ending. Except for the innumerable people killed before, yeah, they suck. What makes this even worse is that all the people who live at the end, (John Cusack excluded), were specifically depicted as those who were able to buy their survival. This is beyond despicable at worst and fairly annoying at best. Saving a couple of Chinese workers in the process does not fix the fact that this movie makes a spectacle of helpless people getting squashed and swallowed up by earth and then expects you to cheer when a bunch of billionaires survive.
Wait a minute, that's not my main complaint. THE WORLD DOESN'T EVEN FREAKING END IN THIS MOVIE!! Even Knowing was better than this! Looks like the Mayans were pretty silly for predicting the end of the world only for Africa to stay undamaged. (Wakanda probably had a little storm, maybe a tornado.) And wait, how exactly are all the billionaires going to cope with survival afterwards?