Movie: 2012

Last night we went to the cinema, the world premiere of Roland Emmerich’s (Independence Day) new disaster movie 2012. It was a very long queue outside the cinema even for us who already had tickets, because here you don’t get numbered seats, but those who is in the front of the line will get the best sites.

The film has its origin in that the Maya Indians have predicted that the earth will come to an end in December 2012. The film begins in 2009 when unusual solar activity is detected, but it’s dakened by the world’s governments. Then it jumps to different things until 2012, and meanwhile the governments are preparing something, but you do not really know what.
Then once it is in 2012 as hell breaks loose. The world's doomed and disaster emergencies. The movie follows a broken family (John Cusack and Amanda Peet) who tries to save themselves, and the president (Danny Glover) and his geological expert (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Plus a lot of extra characters (Woody Harrelson again!).

The film is a Disaster film with capital D. A fatter and more awesome film has never been done, the special effects are so breathtaking that you probably have never seen anything like this! Some of the scenes are so incredible amazing. Shall not reveal much, but I can say that the explosion of the Yellowstone Park is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen on film.
These effects must be seen in cinemas. Don’t download it (yet). See the movie in cinemas first, it is definitely worth the money!

The film reminded a lot about Emmerich’s other films, and one could discern a pattern in what would happen next, but not later in the film.

A funny thing was how many of the politicians who were portrayed reminded about the world's real leaders. The U.S. president was black, the California governor was a big strong Austrian who have been actors, the German Chancellor a middle-aged woman, and I almost thought that you could see someone who looked like Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt too. And Queen Elizabeth looked like she had always done J

I think it must be hard to create a bigger disaster movie after this. What is Roland Emmerich to do now? What will Hollywood come up with now? This movie, especially with its special effects, sets a whole new standard for the genre.

Some things the film we could have done without. I thought it was a bit too much focus on people in certain parts of the film. Then they rather could have been destroying another city or so. Less John Cusack, more disasters, simply.

The movie was very good anyway. Not quite perfect marks. But the grade is still 4 of 5 collapsing cities.

John Cusack runs and runs (and you can see why here)