Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Sep 5, 2023 3/4

Everything you’re expecting from 2012 is exactly what you’re going to get…Utterly impossible by any stretch of the imagination, the movie is a cheesy, one-dimensional, epic-sized spectacle that does exactly what it promises to—destroy the Earth.

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James Croot The Post NZ May 24, 2023 3/5

If you put your brain in neutral, you can enjoy an unprecedented scale of beautifully rendered destruction and learn that science isn't an exact science.

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Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Jan 26, 2022

A good disaster thriller must contain both thrills and massive destruction--2012 has both in great quantity.

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Allison Rose FlickDirect Feb 16, 2021 3/5

Harrelson has one of the better characters in the film and Peet does a good job.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Nov 28, 2020 5/10

Roland Emmerich has pretty much cornered the market on big budget disaster films.

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Jason Best Movie Talk Nov 25, 2020

Volcanoes spew lava bombs, earthquakes tear up city blocks, skyscrapers topple, California sinks beneath the waves, and it's an amazing thrill ride .

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Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 24, 2020 2.5/4.0

Escapist fun capitalizing on new millennium technology.

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Brent McKnight The Last Thing I See Jul 14, 2020 A

"2012" crammed all of the awesome bits from every disaster movie into a single, incredible cinematic achievement. Do yourself a favor, watch "2012" and feel the circuitry of your brain melt into a steaming ball of flaming wreckage.

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 6, 2019 1/4

Wears out its welcome at a ridiculous two hours and 40 minutes, throwing out every cliché in the disaster movie handbook.

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Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News May 11, 2019 C

An overlong, overindulgent action film that wants to be fun and exciting, but is really rather dull and exhausting.

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Eileen Jones The eXile Oct 30, 2018

2012 is all about this irrational determination to live and perpetuate our crappy civilization. The film concentrates fiercely on who's going to get a spot on the ark in the end.

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David Keyes Cinemaphile.org Jun 29, 2013 2/4

...seriously, how often do we want to escape into worlds that are hell-bent on ravaging our sense of security with invading aliens and furious natural disasters?

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Will Leitch Deadspin Jun 22, 2013 B

You cannot say, in the terms of the life and career that Emmerich has built for himself, this is not the apex of his work. The world blows up. The world blows up a lot. The world blows up fantastically. There are worst quests in life.

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Ali Gray TheShiznit.co.uk Sep 29, 2012 3/5

Emmerich favours hoisting his camera high and dry to give audiences the best panoramic view, but it removes all tension from proceedings - you're always at a safe distance.

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Ben Kenigsberg Time Out Nov 18, 2011 1/5

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Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Nov 17, 2011 2/5

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Neil Pond American Profile Sep 30, 2011 2/5

Two and a half hours of heaving and cleaving and crashing and crunching.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 B

Cusack, with his one-of-the-guys face and his nice way with child actors, does creditable work as an Average American Dad trying to put things right.

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Laremy Legel Film.com May 6, 2011 B-

2012 is the rare case of a bad film that I'm nevertheless obliged to recommend you see.

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Dave White Movies.com Apr 4, 2011 4.5/5

Most of all, I liked the airlifting of giraffes to ark safety via helicopter and the bizarrely unreasonable cheeriness of the beleaguered survivors who all but shout "hip-hip-hooray" after billions of other Earth citizens lose their lives.

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