2012: Your Typical Roland Emmerich Film

The title implies sarcasm.  If you’ve seen one Roland Emmerich film, you’ve seen them all.  2012 doesn’t offer much to the viewers, with plot holes galore.  Not only that, the movie is two-and-a-half hours long, which doesn’t make the movie any better.  The movie, if you haven’t figured it out, is about the end of the world which supposedly comes in 2012.  The problem with movie was that it doesn’t nearly focus its efforts on the actual day of destruction; rather it focuses on John Cusak’s life or lack thereof.  Amanda Peet does make a good comeback to the big screen, though.  Roland Emmerich films are indicative of one thing: large movie with no focus whatsoever on the event that surrounds the character.  It almost feels as if there are two movies going on in one movie.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad movie.  It’s just not great.  The ending of the movie will leave you wondering about the prophecy of 2012 (one of the many plot holes).  To the credit of Emmerich, the movie did have some pretty good acting and CG, but despite that, this movie is just OK.  1-10=5.5.