Its worth the three hours!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2009)

2012 "The end is just the beginning" This is definitely a must watch film. The theme of the movie is survival for the fittest. 2012 is a science fiction disaster based movie about the Mayan Calendar and their belief that the world would end in 2012, although the movie has a fresh take on the prophecy. The movie 2012 is a plot driven movie and it revolves around John Cusack (Jackson Curtis) who is a writer and a chauffeur and as he drops the children for one of his clients, he somehow realizes the world might be self-destructing and he has to save his family that is his ex-wife Amanda Peet (Kate Curtis), his daughter Morgan Lily (Lilly Curtis), his son Liam James (Noah Curtis) and his wife's new boyfriend Thomas McCarthy (Gordon Silberman). Saving his family turns out not to be as easy as he thought as the temperature of the earth's core is increasing resulting in a series of natural disasters ranging from volcanic eruptions to tsunamis. 2012 has great special effects and the director Roland Emmerich makes sure that your eyes are glued to the screen for the three hours. The director uses low key lighting to capture the sad mood, especially when Danny Glover(Thomas Wilson) who acts as the United States President in the movie, decides to sacrifice his life and stay with his people. The director also uses several point of view shots to capture the actor's reactions to the disasters taking place around them; one example is when Danny Glover (Thomas Wilson) sees a tsunami coming to destroy the White House. Overall the acting is not that great but the use of the state of the art CGI effects takes your mind off the actors and keeps your eyes glued to the screen and your mind on the action packed plot. 2012 is similar to the 1998 film Armageddon, as they are both disaster, science fiction based movies. "Mankind's earliest civilization warned us this day would come."