A disaster movie ? No, just a disaster.

Rating: 4/10 (30 January 2010)

I didn't have high expectations about this movie. Well, first, the director is Roland Emmerich. The King of apocalyptic movies full of clichés with no interesting characters. Then, the budget of this film is 230 million dollars. So I knew before watching it that it would be a movie with a terrible scenario, terrible actors, but I said to myself: hey, at least it has nice visual effects ! I was right. There were nice visuals. The problem is that there were too much. way too much... The movie lasts 2h and 30 minutes. So picture it: 2h and 30 minutes of unbelievably bad dialogs, unbearable patriotic scenes that alternate with huge stuffs falling down, breaking down, tumbling down and (especially in the last 30 minutes) flowing down. Why is there so much water ?? When I came home from the theater I couldn't believe how long I stayed in the bathroom. And about the actors: oh yeah, the actors... Danny Glover as the president of the United States is pitiful (but he hasn't been in a good movie since Lethal Weapon 2) and John Cusack and Chiwetel Ejiofor are quite bad compared to their usual performances. 2012 is terrible movie only to be watched (if it is to be watched) in theater. Full of clichés, like the Italian president who goes to the church to pray instead of running away ( not sure that Berlusconi would have done that), and highly demagogic.