Just another blockbuster

Rating: 5/10 (17 November 2009)

"The End of the world" theme is not new and has always scared the easy-to-believe ones. Death is what people fear most and when there is given an occasion the be frightened why not use it?
2012 is one of those movies showing us what may happen if the Mayas(in this case) were right. The great visual effects( too many at some places, but despite that, really well made) are the only thing that I wanted to see in this movie. The plot is shallow and you know what will happen in every single moment. There are no surprises, we have seen this kind of movies before, nothing new. The actors are not convincing, the romantic scenes and the jokes are quite inappropriate and to my opinion they don't match such a dramatic event as the extinction of the human race. The movie should have been much more serious, darker and make us feel at least a little frightened that such thing might really happen.
Even Woody Harrelsons' role couldn't save me from being bored and laughing at all the clichés that Emerich used again in his movie. We see him destroying the world for the third? time and always giving us hope, a happy ending, a boring romantic story and some dumb jokes..
Anyways if you don't have anything better to do on a Saturday night and have the wish to see the newest blockbuster with visual effects for some 200 million dollars this is your movie. Otherwise head for something more thought-provoking:)
I hope my comment was useful, it is my first one so don't hate me too much;)