A hulking spectacle of surreal destruction, Roland Emmerich’s
2012 is a theme-park ride masquerading as a motion picture -- the only things missing are an exclamation mark in the title and multiplex seat-jostlers to give us a good jolt when the action gets especially intense. Were Irwin Allen still alive today, he’d no doubt marvel at Emmerich’s impressive ability to dispatch more people in ten seconds of screen time than Jason Voorhees did in the entire original
Friday the 13th film series (albeit much less creatively, of course). You can almost imagine a bulky old clamshell VHS case for
2012 on the shelf of your local video store, its title ren...
Released:
2009
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
158 mins