2012 has a very strange plot, but that is forgotten after you see the good effects and dramatic deaths of places and people that can easily be related to in real life.

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2012)

The objective of 2012 is to show what were to happen if the Mayan predictions are true. Theories like volcanic eruptions, huge floods, earthquakes and the wrath of god. The movie tries to make the losses of life more dramatic than usual by showing places that we can actually relate to, like Manhattan island, The white house and India.
The main character is an American called Jackson who lost his wife and 2 kids to a man named Gordon (a pilot in training). While Jackson takes his kids to yellow stone to show them where he and his mother met they find an American military base crawling with scientists surveying the strange core activities of earth. nearby they find a modern hippie camping who owns an RV fully equipped for radio transmissions. The hippie explains to Jackson How the Mayans predicted the end of the world. When they are back in Manhattan they are hit by a lv9 earthquake, So Jackson jumps into a limousine to explain to his ex family and Gordon what was happening. together they escape the island by plane starting their quest for survival. They do a quick landing in Yellowstone to ask the hippie for more information. The find the map in the RV and watch the happy hippie die in Yellowstone's huge explosion and fly away. They land in LA where Gordon's pilot skills profit them again by letting him become co-pilot on the Russian "Antonov" carrying cars for a Russian Bilionaire. together they fly to china and crash land in the mountains and by chance get onto the ARKS that save the lives of people who are Bilionaires or Politicly powerful. Only about 10k humans were saves in the end the rest of the world (not including Africa) was lost to human cruelty "when we stop fighting for each other, THATS when we lose our humanity"
This movie's effects and acting are a bit childish at the beginning but later the producers and directors actually put some effort into pulling this out of a Mayan predictions. But its not very focused on the Mayan facts, most of the effort was put into the effects (apprx 80% as good as avatar) ironically enough this movie is also one that you only watch once or twice.