MOVIE REVIEW - 2012

Over the weekend, the new end of the world epic, 2012 was the big winner at the box office.

It's just the first of many upcoming doomsday movies Hollywood has planned for you on the horizon. Let's hope the next one is a whole lot better than this......"epic." Every once in a while a bunch of mid-level "stars" get together and gang up in one of these kind of blockbusters because over the long term, these pay a bunch of money. And that's the only reason I can see for this group to possibly put themselves out there for this embarrassment.

The ancient Mayan Calender predicts that the winter solstice 2012 is the end of days. The planets will line up and complete catastrophe will ensue, and the entire world will be wiped out by earthquakes, giant tidal waves, fires, solar bursts..blah blah blah.....That is the basic premise here. Then we have to decide who will live and who will die to start over again in the new world that will emerge after the disaster.

Lot's of silent and loud statements being made here again by Hollywood. Certain members of the big bad American government are horrible terrible, while the rest of the world's leaders are wonderful, caring compassionate people. We can't even get the end of the world right...sheesh! Toss in a completely stupid plot, (if you can call it that) a soundtrack that's been used I think in Independence Day and every other disaster movie since 1995, and special effects that are bordering on the boring, over used and just flat out video-gamey. (With gamy being the operative word here) This is a two and half hour disaster alright.

2012 is so contrived, so predictable, so "I've seen this before", it's almost laughable. It's hard to actually put into words just how bad this thing really is. Tough not to be bored here, because you've seen this before in movie after movie the exact same formula and story. If this is your first movie like this, you may be the lone wide-eyed "gosh this is great" person in the theater. Understanding that there is intended built in fun here it still doesn't save it, in fact it makes it worse...much worse. It doesn't take itself too seriously at times, but it just doesn't work.

2012. To be square it was so bad, I wouldn't have minded the actual end of the world about halfway through to put me out of my misery, but alas....I made it through. But you don't have to. 2012, one of this years real stinkers. Not just a disaster movie, but an complete and total disaster.