“Whatta Disaster!”

When planets align in 2012, the world will end in the most catastrophic way possible. The director of the movie showed it in the most gory, detailed and realistic manner. The falling structures, cities and mountains succumbing to mile high water, and people trying to run away but to no avail.

There were no family meant to survive but John Cusack’s. They are lucky to have the best driver in the world, being able to run away from the falling debris of sky scrappers, cracking highways and even a derailed coaches of train. They also have a great pilot, maneuvering the small plane against the fire and poisonous gas spitted by the volcano. Their luck to get away, almost unscratched in the middle of the wrath of the earth was downright ridiculous.

Even the supporting cast of the movie did nothing to save the movie. The supposedly inspirational talk of the president was dowdy. He chooses to be left behind defeating the purpose of him saving what is left to his country. The scientist and the commanding officer had several arguments that failed to capture the interest of the audience to challenge their philosophy about life, survival and humanity.

The movie was detached and unsympathetic with the other faceless and nameless people in the movie. Swatting them like flies, drowning them, finishing them off and there is even no statistics to keep track. As long as John Cusack’s family will be saved, let everyone else be damned. That is not the type of movie that will move the audience; it had been a disaster all along.