Cast & Crew
Movie Title: 2012
Release Date: Nov 12 or 13 2009
Length: 1 hr 30 min
Movie Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Starring: John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton … see all
Director: Roland Emmerich
Producer: Roland Emmerich
Written: Harald Kloser and Roland Emmerich
Language: English
Budget: $200 million
Country: United States
2012 Movie reviews from the other sources
Mayans (Mexicans) did not predict the end. Traditional spiritual healer Carrera denies 2012 is the end of the world as per Mayan. Exactly how the world ends, the Mayans generously left to Hollywood’s imagination.The biggest question before academics and scientists whether 2012 is the end of the world or it is a publicity stunt by film-makers of 2012.
An end of the world predicted by the ancient Mayan (Mexico) culture, whose sophisticated calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, at precisely 11 minutes and 11 seconds past six in the morning, Eastern time – if you’re counting.
Gyles Iannone, Mayanist and associate professor of anthropology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., According to him, that the Maya calendar doesn’t end on Dec. 21, 2012.The cycle does not wind up for another 2,700 years. “it’s is a movie, let’s not forget that fact.”
The Mayans are very good at calendar making, and they developed a series of time measures including a “long cycle” of 5,125 years – a cycle that ends on Dec. 21, 2012.
Also, Jimi Mistry (Indian geologist) explained to US scientist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) that solar flares have destabilised the earth’s core and that, as a result, the world will come to an end in 2012, just as the Mayan calendar predicted.
PLOT
Jackson Curtis meeting nutcase Charlie Frost , who broadcasts his ‘the end of the world is nigh’ messages from his trailer in Yellowstone Park. However, when the earth’s crust starts to collapse, Jackson realises that Charlie knows the location of the government’s emergency operation, so he frantically tries to rescue his kids, his ex-wife and her new husband and get them to Yellowstone before LA falls into the ocean.
REVIEW
Roland Emmerich is famous for blockbuster disaster movies with great special effects and thrilling set-pieces but he’s really outdone himself here; the film is worth seeing for the limo drive through a collapsing LA alone.
Highlights include: Jackson and family outrunning an exploding volcano with a Winnebago; a plane crash-landing on an ice cliff and the bit where an aircraft carrier and a tsunami take out the entire White House.
Cusack is terrific as the world’s greatest limo driver and there’s strong support from Peet, McCarthy, Ejiofor and the always-reliable Platt, whilst Harrelson, Glover, Mistry and Thandie Newton (as the president’s daughter) are equally good value in smaller roles. The sharply written script wisely strips down the traditional disaster movie’s huge cast in favour of focussing on a handful of characters we really care about.
Rating 4/5
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