2012-movie review

Hey guys, jus back from watchin 2012!!!!
A subject that's on everyone's tongue by now, a gripping storyline and out of the world special effects make this movie a sure shot box office hit..




Roland Emmerich & co have done a great job with the script, screenplay and direction.. the cg work definitely deserves special mention.. this film would have definitely sunk without a trace had it not been for the outstanding special fx..
the director has also thrown in a bit of senti dialogues here and there but it works well in moving the plot forward..

But there are a lot of unrealistic and humanly impoSsible sequences in the movie.. for example, the car sequence wherein the entire Curtis family escape an eartquake by driving crazily around in a limo, dodging breaking roads, crumbling houses and falling buildings.. seriously, vijay and suriya's stunts in kuruvi and aadhavan respectively were far more convincing.. :P


And then there's the sequence where they board a plane and Gordon [John Curtis's wife's husband!!!!! :D ] who's a flying trainee successfully manages to get the plane off a crumbling runway and successfully glide it through falling buildings, crumbling skyscrapers and tumbling trains (yet again)..


John Curtis puts all our kollywood heroes to shame by escaping from a trailer that gets caught up in an earthquake, climbing up the crumbling road to which he was clinging on for dear life jus a few seconds ago and then successfully chasing and boarding a plane that is hurtling by at 60 kmph preparing for take off!!!!!


And as if that wasn' enough, 1o mins later, they are at it again, managing to successfully take off a humongous Russian jumbo jet off a runway that is barely 100m long!!!!


But all these glitches apart, the movie was good.. a wholesome entertainer.. am sayin this once again, had it not been for the special fx, this movie would have sunk without a trace.. if the producers of the movie need to thank anyone, it has to be the special fx team.. amazing job guys!!!!!




All good movies seem to linger in our mind even after we leave the movie theatre.. but that didn't quite happen with this movie.. everything about the movie is good, the actors have all done a great job, the script is good, the execution is good, but still it fails to really strike a chord.. something seems to be missing..

i'd give it a 3.5 out of 5..




And here are a few interesting infos from the movie:

1. the entire concept of the world coming to an end is discovered by an indian astro physicist!!!

2. the united states of america is destroyed by massive earthquakes which result in a supersized volcano tht virtually destroys the whole of usa.

3. two massive underwater earthquakes submerge the whole of india in less than 1 hr!!!

And here's another interesting trivia:

For all those people who fear that the world might end in 2012, fear no more.. NASA has confirmed that despite the earth, sun and the end of the milkyway galaxy all lining up in the same line as shown in the film, the world is not gonna get destroyed..
in simple words, we dont die!!!!!!



hols will be here soon.. so will be havin time to catch up on a few more movies.. for more such movie reviews, keep comin back..

watch out this space for more..

until then, adios!!