2012 movie review

When i heard of the title, i thought it was just another movie of the apocalypse (and indeed, it was!). I was a little reluctant to join my friends when they asked me to go for this movie, but i joined anyway (since my brother said it was good ). Much to my relief, the movie wasn't that disappointing. It wasn't the same old 'end-of-the-world' type of movie, and they even applied Noah's Ark's principle in it! Haha.

Overview

Since most of u must have watched the movie already, i won't waste my time reviewing the plot,alright?

Overall, the movie was good. The graphic was very impressive, i must say. It gave me a real picture of what the apocalypse might have looked like. The crumpling of California's road like a piece of paper, Yellowstone becoming a huge erupting volcano, and Los Angeles slipping into the sea was breath-taking.

The movie started off with the US government geologist, Adrian Hemsley, in India, paying a visit to the copper mine where his friend discovered that the solar neutrinos from the sun is heating up Earth to the point that it is causing the continental plates to slide over each other, causing the Earth's magnetic waves to go haywire, and has a microwave effect on the 6000ft water tank they had in the copper mine to go boiling. Adrian rushed back to Washington to warn the president during a fund-raising party and from that point onwards, 3 years passed in 3 minutes. Lol.

And has it occured to you that in every armageddon movie, there is a nobody-that-turned-into-somebody? In this movie, it is Jackson Curtis, a divorced man that works as a limousine driver and also a writer (the reason he's divorced - too 'dedicated' to his work). The 'side' charaters are : Kate, Gordon (plastic surgeon-new husband), Lily and Noah (the 2 kids). As much as i enjoyed the thrill, i find the ultra narrow escape that happened to Jackson's attempt of saving him and his troop (his ex-family and the new husband) a little too boring, as it happened over and over again. They always, always,ALWAYS missed the falling bridge, the cracking land, etc by a hair. It was quite exciting the first and second time, but by the third time, i was yawning already.

As this movie was lacking comedy, i really enjoyed the part where Yuri Karpov (Russian industrialist/ex-fighter) shouted for silence in the Bentley, and said in his really cute Russian-toned English : "Engine, Start". LMAO.

I super super super loooooooooooooove that Bentley!! Such a waste that they have to crash it like that though T.T

And there was the unexpected ditch of Jackson and his troops, as well as Tamara (the girlfriend).

1 billion euros (RM 5.3 billion) for each ticket. can u believe it? Yuri would pay that amount for the fat pigs (the siamese twins) he owned. Lucky for Jackson and the rest that they found a strong believer of the ancient Tibetan. Didn't understand a word, but luckily there were subtitles.

The rest of the movie was good, with the multiple malfunctions happening here and there, causing tension and shluck, but it always end up with a happy ending. [Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm a sucker for happy endings, but the movie just seems too perfect, isn't it? - except for Gordon, but that scene was clearly to eliminate the 'new husband' so that the old family can be reunited again. Urghh].

The ending of the movie was also adapted from Noah's ark where the captain of the ark decides that the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa was the place for them to grow a whole new population of earthlings again.

And............... ** Happy Ending ** ~ with the sun setting in the background~

=.="

Religious View

Don't get me wrong, i like how Roland Emmerich used the idea of a story from the Bible into a great movie. It's just that, for those that actually knows the story from the bible, u would know that God had the rainbow after the 40 days flood as a sign of promise to Noah and his generations that God will never send another flood to destroy mankind, after the one from Noah's. [Refer to Genesis 9 :1-17]. So, technically the biblical concept of this movie is a little wrong.

Time Factor

You know, there are some movies where you can watch it again and again and again, and not get bored? This is NOT one of those movies. 2 hours 40 minutes is a long time. Maybe during the first watch, u don't feel that it's long, most probably because you sorduf enjoyed the thrill and all. But during the 2nd watch, it will be all very predictable and bored.

Ending

I wasn't in much favor of the ending, since i personally like movies that leaves an ending that makes me wonder and think about the movie after watching. However, this particular movie cleans up its ending pretty 'clean', and everything that was happening was crystal clear. This is just my 2 cents. Different people likes different endings. Mine wasn't much like this one, but it will do. 6=^^