Under the mercy of CGI and special effects.

Rating: 5/10 (18 September 2018)

Big budget extravaganza's entry in the dictionary should show 2012's poster. This is Ronald Emmerich's take on the apocalypse, which before the mentioned 2012 date was an actual possibility according to many people. Emmerich gives these deluded souls a visual perspective of how the final moments shall play out. This includes everything from mass wildfire the likes that will shame any real fire of the Californian landscape. Earthquakes which will dwarf the intensity of even imagined earthquakes such as the "big one" of North Pacifica and floods and destruction the kind one hopes to never have to have the misfortune of being in vicinity of. In other words if you want to see the planet barf you will enjoy 2012. If you are in for some characterization or plot than this film is bound to leave you disappointed. Had 2012 arrived before the Alien attacks of Independence Day maybe the reaction would have been much more boisterous but it comes in the day and age of too much CGI and special effects which renders it pretty much pedestrian at best.