Roland Emmerich In His Own Disaster

[The following passage below is basically a review about the movie that has already been criticized, which is why I want to share my honest and accurate opinions about the film.]

Blockbuster filmmaker, Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day), always love to share his audiences his taste for destruction and chaos. In which this case, his latest film, 2012, became that disaster of a movie. The movie pretty much gave the message to the audience of serious (literally), theoretical terror. The film sets as a countdown from 2009 to the inevitable date. An all star cast, including John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Oliver Platt, and more. Overall, the film barely tells about the reasons from political, religious, or scientific perspective on how or why this disaster may or may not happen.

Being the most important element in films, story is what keeps the audiences seated in their chairs. Cusack plays as the low-middle class writer and divorced husband, Jackson Curtis, whom his book is critically-acclaimed and becomes the key in the film. Reuniting with his two kids at a family campsite at Yellow Stone National Park, Curtis gets last minute heads up from an anti-government hippie, Charlie Frost (Harrelson). After some talk and little knowledge about the 2012 disaster, "tick-tock, tick-tock. BOOM!" An Eruptive volcano, extreme earthquakes, dark clouds roaming America, and vast oceans flooding regions worldwide in a very short period of time. What makes it worse is the majority of the characters (Glover, Newton, Platt, and more) coincidentally share their *family adventures* meeting in destiny at humanity's final destination: Mt. Everest. Being the co-writer of the film, Emmerich obviously had little enthusiasm with story, or better yet ignored it. Emmerich, most likely, stayed away from the political, religious, and scientific perspectives of the 2012 theory. My direct answers to the plot is simply direct, self-explanatory, and above all crappy.

Emmerich's film, I think, is becoming somewhat of a scare-tool to audiences nationwide. Some had a little scare when many thought America was going to turn into a frozen wasteland because of global warming. Now, people are growing concerns about a event that's not far from time. As a disaster film artist, Emmerich is heading for mixed reviews and maybe poor remarks from some long time fans becoming his last (if he keeps this up). If you're looking for a good film with explanations and relations to plots, this film will be a waste of time to you. However, if you're looking for only action and visual effects on disasters, then you may like it. In conclusion, the 2012 film is perhaps Emmerich's second worst film ever made in his career since his '98 film, Godzilla (Being his first). My overall score is 5 out of 10 for speechless visuals, but awful story.