Typical Hollywood cliché

Rating: 5/10 (8 January 2010)

The plot is that the Mayans predicted that in 2012, the world would end. So the protagonist and his family, like in almost every other disaster movie, survives, unlike thousands of others, by driving through an earthquake, a seemingly and visually impossible thing to do, has an amateur pilot able to fly them all out in a small plane with a huge explosion right behind them and the dad (played by John Cusack) who is late for the ride, manages to get in the plane just in time. Surely by now, all of them should have been dead, but they're kept alive just so they can find out that Savior ships (trying to imitate Noah's Arc) have been built to keep the globe alive.
Of course all the while there's this sentimental stuff between separated relationships getting back together as the world ends and all that, that you can find in pretty much any movie. But in this case, it just makes the film more pathetic. Indeed, the special effects are powerful, like being on a roller-coaster, but as far as writing goes, it falls straight in the category of déjà vu Hollywood.
If you've never seen this kind of movie before, the world destroyed by some kind of apocalypse and the heroes running for their lives, go and see it, but I bet you any money you've seen it somewhere before.