2012

Devastating tidal wave

So, we all expect the world to end. The apocalypse has long since bewildered, frightened and intrigued mankind ever since he gained self awareness of his fragile state. The end of the world has always made fairly interesting movies, regardless of how the world loses its most prominent species. But leave it up to ‘Day After Tomorrow’ maestro Roland Emmerich and a long-gone Mezo-American civilization to scare movie goers stiff. ‘2012’ bases its scare factor on the probability that the world will end on precisely December 21^st, 2012...but just way worse then even they expected. (Lucky them!). Super-volcanoes, tectonic quakes that scar the globe, waves miles high. Yeah...but, mankind proves that again, it’s better to be smart than lucky, although Lady Luck just became his favorite deity. 

So, we all expect the world to end. The apocalypse has long since bewildered, frightened and intrigued mankind ever since he gained self awareness of his fragile state. The end of the world has always made fairly interesting movies, regardless of how the world loses its most prominent species. But leave it up to ‘Day After Tomorrow’ maestro Roland Emmerich and a long-gone Mezo-American civilization to scare movie goers stiff. ‘2012’ bases its scare factor on the probability that the world will end on precisely December 21^st, 2012...but just way worse then even they expected. (Lucky them!). Super-volcanoes, tectonic quakes that scar the globe, waves miles high. Yeah...but, mankind proves that again, it’s better to be smart than lucky, although Lady Luck just became his favorite deity.

 When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) joins the race to ensure that humankind is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller co-scripted by the director and his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer, Harald Kloser.