Best movie of this year hands down!

Waste of time

Great Film overall

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

2012 is Ronald Emmerich's take on the apocalypse, which before the mentioned 2012 date was an actual possibility according to many people. Emmerich gives these deluded souls a visual perspective of how the final moments shall play out. This includes everything from mass wildfire the likes that will shame any real fire of the Californian landscape. Earthquakes which will dwarf the intensity of even imagined earthquakes such as the "big one" of North Pacifica and floods and destruction the kind one hopes to never have to have the misfortune of being in vicinity of. In other words if you want to see the planet barf you will enjoy 2012. If you are in for some characterization or plot than this film is bound to leave you disappointed. Had 2012 arrived before the Alien attacks of Independence Day maybe the reaction would have been much more boisterous but it comes in the day and age of too much CGI and special effects which renders it pretty much pedestrian at best.

Lacks so many things to be the movie its suppose to be,, lacks meaning,,imagination, and so on,, poorly executed

Honestly you could watch this movie and not be bored and and not dislike it. Is it the best script and movie ever made? No. But it's decent and one of those movies you can watch and get through and may even really like. Not bad as most of these reviews on here.

This movie had the potential to be one of the greatest, if maybe not , the greatest apocalyptic movie of all time. It had all the prepositions, especially the story it was based on, since everyone in that period of time was starting to worry about the D-day and what the Mayans said about the year 2012- the year when the world and our existence would be destroyed. It had a huge budget, the visuals were meant to be and are AMAZING, crazy good, as I would like to say eye-watering, BUT, at some moments, they were used to much, almost every 3 minutes which led to the movie losing depth, losing rhythm, losing logic. The casting choice was also mistaken pretty bad, especially with the leading role John Cusack, who, altho is one of the finest actors, brought to much comedy, without taking any matter seriously, which is not logical at any means, since the ground below him is dissapearing while he is making jokes about it.