The only redeeming quality this movie has going for it is the special effects. They would have to be pretty damn good to make this a halfways decent movie. The budget for this movie was $200,000,000, but it barely grossed $166,000,000 as of February 2010.
I like to find good in everything. Woody Harrelson's character is one of the best characters of this movie. He is the funniest. He is the strangest. All the other characters seemed awkwardly matched in the script.
2012 is based on the premise that the world will end or drastically change on December 21, 2012. This assumption is based on the Mayan Calendar ending on that date. However, the Mayan Calendar doesn't end it just recycles back to the beginning.
John Cusack plays Jackson Curtis, a limo driver who is an aspiring science fiction writer. Little does he know that he will be living one of the greatest science fiction adventures of all time as he tries to save his ex-wife, two kids and his exes boyfriend. Along the way Jackson picks up a Russian aristocrat, his two sons, his wife and his bodyguard.
While flying an Anatov An-225 aircraft to China they run dangerously low on fuel and plan for a water crash landing. However, they don't realize that while they are in the air the Earth has shifted enough that they are now several thousand miles further along. This allows them to crash land on land, but of course, with a twist. This wouldn't be a Hollywood apocalyptic movie without some sort of crazy assed stunt. That stunt is driving a car off the cargo ramp of the Anatov while it is careening toward a cliff. Does it work? What kind of movie would it be with killing off the lead character and his entire family just as he gets so close?
Anyway, I can't go on describing this movie since it was poorly executed. As usual, using IMDB's scalle of 10 stars I give this one a 6. Cusack, Harrelson and the special effects helped but not enough.
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