A Disaster of a Disaster movie.

Rating: 4/10 (17 November 2009)

Lets start from the beginning...
I have been waiting months to see this movie, ever since I saw the first trailer on TV or read news about its production in the papers and online, I couldn't wait to see another one of these "end of the world" movies, so before going into the cinema to see this, my expectations were very high, since the guy who directed this also directed one of my all time favourite movies Independace day.
Before seeing this movie, I had done a lot of research on the 2012 Mayan prophecy, the Mayan calender and the Mayan people, they didn't exactly predict the world was going to end, just that there will be an alignment in our galaxy between the earth, sun and centre of the milky way & also the ending of their calender, so I hoped this movie would focus a little on this, I mean the movie is called 2012 right? Well this movie didn't, I think maybe twice through-out the entire film they mentioned the Mayans, ridiculous right? but hey thats Hollywood for you.
This movie lacked in everything a movie should have, the characters had no meaning, no story about them, the script was terrible, there were cliché after cliché, even LOL moments in the film where I just couldn't stop laughing, reminding me a bit of the Indiana Jones 4 movie, just over the top, cheesy as hell, AS IF moments, OK fair enough the whole movie in itself may be one big AS IF that could ever happen, but it really could, just sometimes I felt like I was being ripped off, dumbed down, and insulted.
The only thing that this movie has going for itself is the special effects, and one short cameo from woody, THATS IT, in my opion anyway, classic disaster movies like Armageddon, independence day, twister, they will always be favourites of mine, which I can watch over and over again, but I don't think I will be watching this one again anytime soon, it's even worse than the day after tomorrow.
I am just really disappointed this film didn't deliver, it had the potential to be HUGE, if it just concentrated alittle more on telling a story, build up the characters a little, be alittle more realistic, it was so predictable, I could tell from the beginning who was going to live, who was going to die etc, the budget for this movie was over $200 million, a waste of money if you ask me!! Finishing off, if you like to see things get blown up, destroyed then this movie is for you, but if you like a little story, some depth, some feelings, then this isn't the movie for you.
Armaggedon made me cry, 2012 made me laugh.