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"2012" (2009) -
Sony Pictures
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Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. A global cataclysm brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
How would the governments of our planet ... prepare six billion people ... for the end of the world?They wouldn't. (Those bastards.)Yes, doomed masses, if you hadn't heard, the end of the world is thundering towards us like a…
2012 wasn't quite apocalyptic at the box office, but it definitely busted down more than a few doors. People came in tidal waves to the movies this past weekend looking to see the world get destroyed in a major way, and boy, did…
2012 is the rare case of a bad film that I'm nevertheless obliged to recommend you see. And really, the first two hours are pretty solid, it's only in the last 40 minutes or so that the story slides directly off the rails. But the special effects? Superb. The acting? Passable? The logic?…
PETER TRAVERS -
November 12, 2009
Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity. We probably are nearing the end of the movie world when it's easy to predict that the biggest turd in the bowl will rise to the top of the box office. Equally depressing is the pass some critics are giving to this 158 minute (you heard me!) slog through every end-of-days cliché in the Hollywood playbook. The fresh angle is the…
PETER TRAVERS -
November 12, 2009
