Utterly disappointed!

Rating: 4/10 (17 November 2009)

Have you seen Independence Day, Armageddon, or The Day After Tomorrow? Then there's no need for you to watch that one, unless state-of-the-art special effects really draw you in! 2012 is a typical apocalyptic movie, adding absolutely nothing to the myriad of movies tackling the same theme. Even the "moral lesson" that Emmerich forcibly interjected in the movie is cheesy, worn out, and naively delineated. The plot line drops more than once, and it is doltishly patched up; inexplicable events take place, characters weirdly behave, and Jackson Curtis (Cusack) miraculously survives deadly situations!
Watching John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Thandie Newton was quite amusing,not because of their performance in the movie, but because they are good actors always fun to see on screen. Woody Harrelson and Thomas McCarthy were remarkable though; they managed to really stand out with their rib-tickling yet noteworthy performance.
2012 is certainly not a waste of time, but it's not a movie to remember as well.