2012

Rating: 6.9/10

Genre: Action

Overall value for money and time: 6.0/10

A hypothetical end-of-the-world apocalypse caused by the heating of our earth's core due to the sudden outburst of neutrinos from the sun. And all of this was supposed to happen in, 2012.

Let me cut to the chase here. The only reason for it's fairly "good" rating is because of the effects, it would be unfair to the director for putting so much effort into its CG and have his movie be termed as one of the biggest flop of 2009. That's why I would suggest, don't bother catching it. A huge, huge disappointment for me.

A two and a half hour long movie which covers serveral subplots of different characters trying to survive under the apocalypse. Value for money and time only unless it has a great storyline and believable seat gripping action scenes along the way... Bad cast, bad plot, bad development.

The acting of the different casts didn't seem believable to me, which could either be due to low budget, or just a bad choice of cast selection. There wasn't a single lead cast who shined in his/her role, the only person I could think of, *spoilers ahead*, is the captain of the ship. There wasn't any likability or connection to the characters in the movie, and with the added damage from unconvincing acting, it felt like a "second-rated movie".

The concept of what would cause the end of the world was believable, but the way the protoganists weaved through the chaos of the collapsing buildings and tearing earth was too far-fetched. Everything was too on the brink that it felt almost like an insult to your rationalism, though I understand the director just wants it to be more seat gripping. Everything backfired for the director, he added subplots to make it more involving and "realistic" but it turned out to be too draggy and resulted in the audience being less connected to the characters.

The characters were killed off too "conveniently" and "unengagingly" that you won't even feel your eyes turning sour. This movie feels like its in a world of its own, meant for audiences who belong in that same category and who are able to endure that amount of insult and mediocracy in a movie. If you don't belong in that category, then just give it a pass... it would be more apocalyptic for you to sit through this movie...