Less Creditable than the Mayan "predictions".

Rating: 2/10 (8 January 2013)

Right, where to begin. I watched 2012 on the 21st of December 2012 as a topical, tongue in check film choice to celebrate yet another "doomsday" passing without incident. By the end of the film I had wished the World had actually ended to to save me from such a terrible film.
The characters have as much personality as a brick. The plot is weak. The film is full of clichés, the father separated from the children's mother and has to deal with the jealousy of his kids liking their new step-father. Characters (who running for their lives to get in yet another getaway vehicle) will stop to say a "funny" one liner that is about as appropriate as giving cheese burger with extra cheese to an acute lactose intolerance sufferer.
The film also suffers from what I like to call the "Armageddon factor" where the director thinks that constantly throwing near miss after very improbable near miss very 10 seconds will make the film intense, on the edge of your seat nail biting. It doesn't, it makes the film boring and predictable.
I can't for the life me understand why it's got such a high rating on here (5.8 at the time of writing). As I joked with a friend "from this day onwards every single precious second is a bonus and needs to be cherished... and I've just wasted 534,600 of them on this pile of poo (not the word I used but you know what I meant)".
The positive of this film is, the visual effect. They are absolutely stunning. The scene where they take off in plane fly along a newly form gorge with the buildings of L.A. (along with subway trains and the like) falling in over their head is worth a gander, especially if the is a 3D version out there, but is a sequence that last 5 minutes, if that. Not really worth the 2 hours and 25 minute of the rest of the film.
Ultimately, I believe that these so-called Mayan predictions have more creditable than this film