The bad and the good

Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2010)

There are bad things and good things to say about 2012. First, the bad stuff. The science of the movie makes no sense, even though they try twice to explain why everything is going wrong. They manage to build the entire rescue system for the chosen survivors in just three years. The comedy relief is bad. There are contrived coincidences. There's heavy-handed symbolism. They show people taking off in planes just seconds before danger strikes THREE TIMES. It's easy to figure out who will live and die. And with a running time of over 2 1/2 hours, the movie goes far too long.
But there are some good things to say about the movie. The opening twenty minutes of the movie is very engaging, being intriguing and will make you wonder what they are going to do. The special effects and the sets are professionally done. The movie is also surprisingly bleak for most of its running time, uncommon for a Hollywood movie, and makes you wonder if things will turn out okay in the end. And while the movie would have been helped by some trimming, I can't say that at any time I was seriously bored. Verdict: Wait until it comes on TV so you don't have to pay to see it. Odds will be greater then that you'll be entertained by the movie's frequent goofiness.