Movie Review: 2012

Salam and hello everyone. For this time, I’m going to write a quick review (ya, you may call it a quick review or otherwise; depending on how you define the word “quick” haha! ) about the movie that I have watched recently, 2012. Have anyone here never heard about this movie before? Well, it is okay if you never heard of it before, maybe because you are not interested into watching movies or maybe you never think to know or hear about it. Well, whatever it is, here is the official trailer about the movie that I’m going to review. Watch it and word it out what you think about this movie from this official movie trailer.

Well, some of us called it “movie of the year 2009“, “a must watch movie of the year 2009″ etc. And I can’t deny that, I’m the one who were waiting for it showing date really much. Anyway, does this so-called “movie of the year” worth to watch? My review is going to elaborate what my thought about this 2012 movie and my expectation before I stepped into the cinema hall.

I have watched the trailer for this 2012 movie about months ago, plus with so many contests organized by some big companies in conjunction of this movie has made me eager to watch and curious to know, what is so special about the movie. Even, GSC (Golden Screen Cinema) official website went into text-only mode during it first showing week and I can’t even do any online booking for this movie. See? No wonder this movie went to box-office in less than a week! During the day I went to buy the ticket and watch 2012, all tickets for this movie were selling fast for all sessions! My cousins and I were lucky enough because we still managed to get some seats, at the first row from the screen! Ok, enough talking about all these and let’s proceed with the review.

Okay, this movie started with discovery of neutrinos from solar flare that have penetrated the Earth and caused its core temperature increasing rapidly. From my understanding, these neutrinos caused the Earth unstable, mega earthquakes around the globe and super mega tsunami with 1.5km height of wave! Can you imagine that? So, to ensure the continuity of human life from these disasters, the G8 countries (how about other countries?) have collaborated to build a series of gigantic arks in the Himalayas. Well, this is the brief idea of the storyline for this movie. You might think some of it doesn’t make sense and illogic, but that is the science fiction is all about. Well, in my honest opinion, the storyline for this movie was disappointed and it was expected from a director of “The Day After Tomorrow” and “Independence Day”. The ending part of this movie is bad for me. Start a new life in Africa?

Next is about the CGI that have been used in this movie. One word, super-greatest-wow-awesome-CGI. One word, isn’t? I can’t deny the CGIs were great and maybe the greatest so far compared to any other movies before. If you love to see all those CGI effects, this movie might be the one you should watch.

So, what else should I review? Storyline, plot and CGIs are all done. Nothing much to story about this movie, the only attraction for people to watch this movie is just because of it super great promotion and CGIs that have been used in this movie, and not for its storyline which I rated it bad. For a movie that will make you to stay at your seat for about 2 hours 30 minutes with bad storyline (otherwise you just want to enjoy its awesome CGIs), this movie really not worth to watch. It is just a waste of time compared to Star Trek which has great storyline and balance it with great CGIs that make it a great movie to watch. With so high expectation about this movie, but end up disappointed with bad storyline, I would rate this movie 2.5 out of 5. If you don’t agree with me, you can watch it and rate it by yourself. So, are you going to watch it? For you who already watch it, what do you think? Do you have any other feedback about this movie and how much would you rate it out of 5? Word it out and I’m willing to hear your opinion.

p/s: 2012 was not a trending topic in Twitter during it first showing week, but the new upcoming Twilight movie, is one of Twitter trending topic since last week. Cool?
p/p/s: Before I watch this movie, I have already heard about its bad rating. Well, I just want to watch it by myself, but end up with the same conclusion.