Amazing! Watch it! But only once!

Rating: 6/10 (20 December 2009)

I was looking forward to watch this film for quite some time before release date and then I went to the local cinema with one of my girlfriends a couple of weeks ago.
As expected the visual effects was amazing and every frame a piece of art. The details was mind blowing and makes the whole film worth seeing! And this is where 2012 fails. The history is pretty much formed to fit a trash can. There is way too many "almost"s (you know then the car brakes heading towards a little boy on the road and the car stops just a foot before him) and a lot of illogical actions and minor or major details. E.g. why is it Sasha must stay in the plane which is already crashed? And why isn't there more women on board on the arc? This was some of the mayor but I also think there's a lot of physicist that could point out a couple of details. Beside of the trifles it did annoy me that the 'film look' vanished in the hand held shots of people getting wet by a bucket of water inside the arc and the very convenient security cameras oddly enough right in front of John Cusack's face. Maybe it's just me but when I or anyone else notice such scenes and by that is thrown out of focus at the story line it's a failure in my eyes.
Though when walking away from the cinema I still had a wonderful feeling of mass destruction and could easily imagine the local buildings crumble and disappear into the giant crack in the earth in a cloud of dust and screams! Simple amazing! Overall I've given 2012 six stars and that's mostly because of the visual effects and the rest because of the awesome feeling of mass destructions! I will really recommend watching this film... but only once...