2012 Movie Reviews
3.5
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
End of the world movies have almost always been engaging. Also, director Roland Emmerich has ended the world time and again through his celluloid epics. Be it the aliens bringing the White House down, the world going into deep freeze or the giant lizard trampling across terra firma, films like Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla have showcasedRead full review3.0
Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
Don't go in to watch director Roland Emmerich's 2012 if you're going to come out complaining that it's a preposterous film. Let's face it, what did you expect? Using an ancient Mayan prophecy to establish its doomsday scenario, this nihilistic disaster flick is based around the premise that the world's coming to an end in the year 2012. So a massive solar flare leads to a displacement in the earth's crust, which in turn brings about global earthquakesRead full review3.0
Tushar Joshi | Mid-Day
he world will come to an end in 2012. That's what the Mayans predicted centuries ago. With the earth, sun and other planets making a freak once-in-a-million-years alignment, there will be death and destruction on Earth. A US scientist Adrian Helmsley (Ejiofor) discovers that our planet's crust will super heat in 2012 leading to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and increasing water levels that will flood continents. Only a select fewRead full review3.0
Anupama Chopra | NDTV Movies
n an interview, director Roland Emmerich declared that 2012 is going to be his last disaster movie. Which is just as well because after this film, there really isn’t anything left for him to destroy. Emmerich has killed millions in his earlier films like Independence Day, Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow. But in 2012, he actually destroys the world. According to the Mayan Calendar, time comes to an end on December 21, 2012. Emmerich uses this to unleashRead full review2.5
Renuka Vyavahare | Indiatimes
The film’s release in Mumbai, India almost coincided with the supposed arrival of cyclone Phyan in the city thus doubling the expectations we had from this film which promises to capture mankind’s race for survival. Fortunately Phyan bypassed Mumbai and Unfortunately 2012 failed to surpass our expectations. With 2012, the maker of disaster epics Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day after tomorrow) comes up with yet another filmRead full review2.0
Jake Coyle (AP) | The Telegraph
Cataclysmic disaster and apocalyptic doom, as foretold by Hollywood, have a way of bringing together broken families, revealing the unseen heroism of deadbeat dads and neatly disposing of their rivals. This, too, is the micro-level drama of 2012, the latest nihilistic disaster flick to revel in the destruction of the planet. John Cusack plays the castoff father (Jackson Curtis), a failed novelist getting by as a limo driver.Read full review2.0
Shubhra Gupta | Indian Express
An estranged couple comes together after a long gap, under trying circumstances. After ‘Jannat’, in which Kunal Deshmukh successfully parlayed the cricket match fixing scandal into a saleable flick, comes ‘Tum Mile’, in which the catastrophic Mumbai floods a few years ago become the backdrop for a re-uniting-the-lovers story. When Akshay (Emraan Hashmi) and Sanjana (Soha Ali Khan) first meet, it is all milk and honey.Read full review1.0
Elvis D'Silva | rediff.com
What is the point of a movie set in times of apocalyptic events? To warn and perhaps obliquely make mankind aware of a possible threat? To offer a ray of hope? At the very least to wow and amaze with images of awe-inspiring destruction? So what happens when a major Hollywood motion picture comes along that does none of the above and takes away two-and-a-half hours of your time? Nothing good I assure you. From my opening paragraph you should be prepared for what I thought of 2012Read full review
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3.5
In 2012, America still leads the world, but with global support
filmifan45, 9 years agoSuper hit movie. I loved everything about this movie.