2012

2012 (2009) - Nov. 21, 2009
About the events surrounding the end of the world in 2012, mostly revolving around a divorced author struggling to maintain a relationship with his kids, and a scientist who was one of the first to discover what was happening to the Earth.  The film definitely overstays its welcome a bit at over two and a half hours, and the plot/characters are far from fresh, but just for the spectacle of it all it's definitely worth watching.  Roland Emmerich is pretty much a master at destroying things on a huge scale at this point, and his direction in the action scenes is refreshingly devoid of the old quick-cut/shaky-cam.  Plus, the film features some of the best special effects that I've seen in a while, so the destruction is almost always fairly convincing.  ***