Saturday, March 13, 2010 Previous editions
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, Amanda Peet
Another date for the diary, another day for the world to end.
The ancient Mayans apparently jotted in 2012 as the year of doom so the master of disaster
Emmerich – he of The Day After Tomorrow – gives us a couple of years to prepare.
He spent more than $200m (€223.6m) on getting the look and feel right but, really, it’s just
another of the it’s-all-gonna-end blockbusters we have become used to.
We get the usual crop of nutty scientists, scheming politicos, chancers and everything else
facing Earth’s final days with Cusack, as a writer, discovering what we all know will happen
if the day comes in reality … the politicians will have worked out how to save themselves and
their cronies.
It’s big, spectacular, action-packed and fairly much as predicted from this director.
Star Rating: 3/5
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