Awful, truly truly awful, but there's promise...

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2011)

OK so this is a diabolical film, the story is poorly constructed, the characters are one-dimensional and poorly acted. There has been enough written about how dire this whole film really is.
Onto the promise, 2012 feels like a prequel to something much more interesting, the arcs are full now, there is a definite Orwellian feel to the surveillance on board and definite resentment toward leadership, and a definite class structure between those who paid and those who just got a place. Perhaps a film set 30 or 40 years after the events of this film based on one of the arcs, none of the characters are the same (please) perhaps there can be something kind of interesting made from the premise, it may be a bit '1984'esque, but blended with some 'Minority report', 'Metropolis' & 'Battlestar Galactica' the reimagined series. You could have the story complete with revolutions, class struggles, ration issues, political corruption, medical issues (disease spread etc.) an increasing population, the premise is there, not that it will ever have a chance of being made, and even if it did, you just know Emmerich and the studios would make it awful.