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2012

2009

Roland Emmerich

John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt ...

4.8

54,283

Action. Adventure. Sci-Fi. Thriller Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. Centuries ago, the Mayans left us their calendar, with a clear end date and all that it implies. Since then, astrologists have discovered it, numerologists have found patterns that ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Farber The Hollywood Reporter	"Grab-bag of disaster movie cliches will thrill less demanding audiences. (...) while it's entertaining for most of its excessive running time, the cheesy script fails to live up to the grandeur of the physical production.	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"This simultaneously spectacular and risible concoction looks likely to trigger a worldwide B.O. tsunami for Sony. (...) The visual effects are pretty sensational, delivering the cutting-edge CGI goods auds want and expect."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The mother of all disaster movies (...) This is fun. '2012' delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Despite the frenetic action scenes, the movie sags, done in by multiple story lines that undercut one another and by the heaviness of its conceit."	NEG
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"God forgive me, but I enjoyed the nerve-racking silliness of this newest, loudest exercise in destruction. (...) rock-solid disaster-pic  formula"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"The movie is an undeniable visual spectacle, but just as unequivocally a cheesy, ridiculous story. (...) 2012 is preposterous fun, with boggling special effects. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"In the interest of fairness, I will say that the FX is killer (...) The rest is the absence of silence. Just the noise and cheeseball pyrotechnics that Hollywood regularly substitutes for intelligence and wit. Welcome to 2009. (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)."	NEG

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