david-sarkies Okay, I've seen this film once, but do I really want to go out of my way to actually see it again, and pay for the privilege. I don't think so, so I'll just write my review and hopefully encourage people not to waste their time in actually watching this film. Sure, it might also waste some money, but the reality is that the $4.00 you might pay to watch the film online you can easily get back, but that 2 hours you spent watching another directors vision of how the world is going to be destroyed will be gone forever. Seriously, if you are board, go skydiving or something. So, apparently the Mayans were able to predict the future and calculated the exact time when the Earth was going to end, right down to the day, except that they didn't. Then again, there was a lot of hysteria leading up to this point because despite all of the rational people pointing out that this point in 2012 was basically to the Mayans like December 31st 1999 was to us, everybody just seemed convinced that the world was going to end. Well, okay, there is this Y2K and all that, be we managed to solve that didn't we, and then again, there were people out there that did actually expect really Earth shattering things to happen on December 31st 1999, except that they didn't, other than a lot of people waking up with a hangover. Anyway, people seem to be convinced that the world was actually going to end, so Hollywood did what Hollywood does best and made a movie out of it. Ironically, one of the main characters in this movie happens to be one of those fringe scientists (I would say crackpot, but the thing is that he turned out to be right, but then again I'm sure there are a lot of other scientists out there that went by the title 'crackpot' who also turned out of be right) who has written a book about the event. Well, not surprisingly, this book made a very good paperweight, if anybody, other than those people that are into that type of stuff, actually bought it. Then again, bye bye PhD. I doubt he was able to get anywhere near ing his peer review, but then again PhD students do happen to have supervisors, and I doubt this research project would have got a seal of approval. As it happens, which is not actually all that surprising and shouldn't come as a shock to anybody that actually paid money to go and see a movie entitled '2012' with cover art depicting the world coming to an end, the Mayans, and this scientist were proven right. So, in true fashion nobody does anything about it, though in fact they do, but if I were to tell you then it would spoil the movie. Nah, I've already ticked the spoiler tag, and if you have managed to get through all the other reviews bagging this film to get to this one, then you probably already know that the billionaires are building an ark. Which I have to honestly ask: that is going to help them how? Seriously, these guys are billionaires. The only thing they know how to do is manage a business, and they are basically locking themselves away on an ark, on which you have to be a billionaire to even be able to buy a ticket, and they expect that they are going to be able to survive a world that has been completely trashed and all civilisation has been completely wiped away? Yeah, seriously, good luck with that. I hope your staff actually include farmers, blacksmiths, metallurgists, and any other person that happens to have any practical skill. I'm really not sure if your butler knows the first thing about planting food crops. Okay, I could also point out the completely unrealistic scenes where the car the heroes are in magically avoids all of the buildings, and elevated freeways, that are falling down, let alone is able to navigate Los Angeles traffic with out too much problem, despite the fact that pretty much everybody else in the city is also trying to get out, at the same time. Yeah, seriously, Los Angeles traffic is horrendous at the best of times, just imagine what it would be like in a real emergency when everybody else is trying to get out as well. Oh, and don't get me started on the scene where one of our heroes is running behind a plane that is taking off, and manages to catch up with it. Seriously, drama and all, but lets actually try to suspend our disbelief here. So, basically, I wouldn't bother, but if I, or none of the other reviews has managed to convince you not to waste your time, then I doubt anybody is going to be able to.
