"2012"

Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Rated PG-13. 158 minutes.

The year is 2012…a year where, according to the Mayans’ calendar so many years ago, the world as we know it…would come to an end.

2012 featured some highly acclaimed stars, including John Cusack as writer Jackson Curtis, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Geologist Adrian Helms, and Danny Glover as the president of the United States in 2012.

From the start of the movie, the audience is informed that the world will incur the most devastating catastrophe ever, since, in short, the world is heating up like a microwave, and nothing can stop the process. The process will cause buildings to fall, volcanoes to erupt, and tsunamis to blow everyone and everything out of the water.

We also witness Jackson Curtis and his family attempt to evade the cataclysm that is soon to end the world. After they discover that ships are being constructed in China—which are meant to preserve humanity for a designated few hundred—Curtis and family take off to the location on a plane. A major problem stands in their way, however—you need tickets to jump aboard the ship.

Working together with another family that Curtis used to drive around in a limo as a part-time job, they band together to get to the ship location. After a number of time-setbacks and hurdles, though, they manage to finally arrive on board through an insider—a welder for the ship—who takes them on board through the arks of the ship.

Most watching 2012 would likely say they felt like what was happening in the movie, was indeed reality (or could be reality), as the special visual and sound effects were nothing short of spectacular.

The movie would have been a bit better if the effects of the natural disasters were not as exaggerated. For example, when Curtis and his family were attempting to escape the natural disasters, it seemed as though they were always slightly ahead of that tsunami, or that explosion.

Regardless, 2012 delivered, as the greatly-played characters, thrilling plot, and film’s special effects outweighed that minor downbeat.

2012 was released in theatres November 13, 2009, and is still playing at a theater near you.

Many thanks go to the United Artist Theatre, Commerce Stadium 14 in Commerce Township, Michigan, for making this review of 2012 possible. Commerce Stadium 14 releases the hottest movies in its stunning establishment regularly, so be sure to check out a new flick at Commerce Stadium 14 today!

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2012 movie poster