I found myself asking a lot of questions, simple questions I might add, that I failed to even contemplate the first time I saw 2012. Like: how can a 1500 metre wave penetrate as far as the Mount Everest when the means height of the Himalayas is 8000 or how can the world be fine after 27 days when the eruption of a super volcano is likely to cause another ice age or how the hell can everyone still use a mobile phone when the whole of the earths fucking crust has shifted thousands of miles?
To accuse Roland Emmerich of using cliché is like saying Hitler had a slight beef with the Jews. In fact, as I stated when I first reviewed this film, Emmerich embraces cliché with a smile and little to no shame. Even so, there are still massive and fundamental problems with the narrative that can’t be ignored. The science is pure movie bullshit (why don’t the neutrons heating the earth’s core not cook the world’s surface first?) and certain characters get killed off just to show that this is a disaster (one of which, the nice new man of our protagonist’s ex-wife, is killed horribly), despite us having been shown and told repeatedly that many, many millions of people have perished.
But, despite the small screen showing it’s flaws ten times more so than on the big screen (ironic wouldn’t you say?), I still really enjoyed it. It is a better picture than The Day After Tomorrow in that, despite its butt numbing run time, I was never bored, something that TDAT did successfully once the snow started to fall. The disaster scenes deliver on a massive scale and, come the climax, I really felt the weight of such an epic plight. It’s a shame that it ends on such a gut-wrenchingly safe note.
For future reference, as already stating, a cataclysm this size will not be over in just 27 days. And why call the following year 0001? Surely just keep it as 2013?
And they save the fucking dog. Just let the little shit die.
3.5/5
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