Did you love Independence Day? If so, you’re in for a real treat. 2012 makes Independence Day glimmer like weakfireworks. Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) forges this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller through the eyes of an academic researcher who blasts wide a doorway into a parallel dimension, making contact with his etheric alterego in a desperate bid to halt the end time prophecies of the ancient Mayan calendar . According to the Mayan calendar, the world meets a doomsday on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) delves deep into his knowledge of the ancient prophecies to ensure that the human race is not completely wiped.

Check out the trailer before you read my review:

I cheated. I saw this movie a month before release because my friend had access to a review copy, and I can tell you this: this film boasts one helluva  intelligent plot supported by the most amazing cinematography. When you’re not breathless watching an entire tectonic plate sink, you’re weeping at the human drama unfolding. The actors are so good that you can read their emotions without them uttering a single word.

It’s tough to rain enough praise on this hilarious, spellbinding movie. To describe “2012″ is to make it appear as any other end-of-the-world disaster epic you’ve ever seen. But guess what? It is. This masterpiece is an Emmerich film much like his others – “Independence Day” and “The Day After Tomorrow” – about an epic, global catastrophe that unfolds …

Halt. You already know how it starts: within a dingy cubicle, a scientist looks at a computer screen and mutters the famous … “My God!”

Okay okay. Sounds familiar? Yeah, you may have seen this before, and yet you haven’t, not quite like this. It’s a bit formula, but far beyond it. And this is a scripted formula to the perfection of what makes the type of movie people will consider ‘cult’ for decades to come. I kid you not- people will say 2012 in the same breath they do Citizen Kane or Sound of Music. It’s that good. In “2012,” Emmerich gives you everything you expect, but gives it to you bigger.

Picture a car hurtling through a neighborhood in Pasadena as boulevards and the tenements behind it plummet to the bowels of the Earth. Picture a plane leaping off on a disappearing runway – and dodging amidst collapsing buildings and a thrashing train. Witness massive tidal waves taking coastal cities by storm and erasing (you guessed it) the Statue of Liberty. But stop right there. Everything in the movie is ten times as grand as that you just vainly tried to imagine.

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Have a blast watching 2012!

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