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Written by GR Staff
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Friday, December 11 2009 14:14 |
 Disaster movies have been popular since cinema began, but there’s never been a disaster movie like 2012. It’s easy to scoff at the over-reliance of CGI in contemporary cinema but for a film like this it’s part and parcel of the whole, and computer generated effects have never before been used as spectacularly.
Roads split in two, bridges and overpasses collapse, high-rise office buildings tumble like packs of cards – and it all looks horribly realistic. A mountainside explodes in lava, a tidal wave threatens a cruise ship – this film has everything. It even has a reasonable plot – ridiculous, of course, but serviceable. Warning: references to the Mayan calendar are fleeting – this is definitely not a film to take seriously. Directed by: Roland Emmerich. Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson. Rated: PG-13, Time: 1:58.
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