User:Bhuppisingh

Recently I saw a Movie 2012 the end of the world, according to me 2012 is complete codswallop, watch it if you love spending your hard earned cash over worthless drivel.

This movie portrays the year 2012 as the end of the world, and also threatens mankind with another frightening prediction - 2009, the end of good cinema.

Directed with as much as care as Ram Gopal Varma took while making 'Aag' and 'Agyaat', Roland Emmerich takes idiocy to the very next level, shoving hundreds of minutes of CGI porn in our faces, laced with guffaw inducing dialogues and gratuitous helpings of ham acting. 2012 is pretty much a laughable ode to brainless action B-movies.

To add to the piles of turd in 2012, there is an Indian astrophysicist (Jimi Mistry) who talks in English with a vomitous Hollywood-Indian accent, and in Hindi with some embarrassingly erroneous grammar. But the worst thing about 2012 is the fact that it asks the audience to take its characters too seriously, the same characters that mouth corny dialogues, look ridiculous covered in white powder, run like clowns, make unforgivably asinine decisions and endanger their own kids for the sake of a danger-filled plot.

Everyone in the film is a walking cliche; there is the separated couple, the father (John Cusack) who is a writer blamed for neglecting his wife (Amanda Peet) and their kids, the wife's current boyfriend, THE scientist of the United States, THE president of the United States, THE deputy who doesn't give a tinkers cuss about humanity, one crazy guy obsessed with doomsday conspiracies, the token side characters who die in horrible ways etc. Emmerich tries to build up the characters in the first half hour and fails spectacularly in doing so. As a result 2012 is just about tolerable during the 80 minutes of special effects mayhem and simply unbearable during its other 80.

But the star of 2012 is the CGI, even though it is tiring to watch the hero dodging earthquakes, then dodging volcanoes, then dodging oceans and whatnot, you cannot look away from the screen. There's enough cheese here to satisfy the wildest of action movie buffs. Massive explosions, colossal waves, flipping cars, tumbling trains, cracking and drowning cities improbable escapes, mammoth sized arcs, its all there.

And the unintentional comedy in between the CGI shots makes a nice accompaniment. John Cusack, who is one of my favourite actors has made the worst career choice of his life with 2012. And you'll be beefed out with the ham acting involved here - Chiwetel Ejiofor reaches out for Thandie Newton's bosom, realizes the same and retracts his hand; Danny Glover is laughable is as the President, he makes a complete mockery out of Barack Obama with his dumb sanctimonious speeches. His conviction to be super serious is just uproarious, and Emmerich makes full use of his unintended comic facial expressions.