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2012 - Movie Review


MIL/TOI, Nov 18, 2009
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Mumbai,India:November 18, 2009 - IR Summary/Agencies-

The sun sending extra heat due to which planet Earth has a destabilizing crust. End result? It's hurtling towards doomsday in 2012, as predicted by the Mayan calendar. Can a father, John Cusack, save his family, a President, Danny Glover, his country, a scientist, Chiwetel Ejiofor, the future this remains the question...?

 The director Roland Emmerich has ended the world time and again through his celluloid epics. Be it the aliens bringing the White House down, the giant lizard trampling across terra firma or the world going into deep freeze films like The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day and Godzilla have showcased Emmerich as an able prophet of doom.

Once again, he roils the oceans, cracks up the earth and sends down fireballs to create a cataclysm that sends humanity into a tizzy. Everyone's on the run, now that they know Earth has an expiry date: December 2012. And before the new world can begin (circa 0001), with a handful of survivors, families must unite, loved one's must be lost, the benevolent must shine and the bad guys be sorted out. In short, the entire scope of emotions must be run through, even if it takes a prolonged two and half hours to depict the might of man against the fury of nature. Yes, 2012 is too long and ends up taxing your patience in the last 40 minutes where all the drama unfolds inside a submarine-like Noah's ark, brimming over with the survivors, handpicked on different yardsticks.

Most of them are there because they could pay to buy themselves a one billion euro berth in the secret ship. Some have connections (like the US president's daughter, the White House chief), some because the new world needs them, like the bright, young scientist, Chiwetel Ejifor, and some -- the good, yet ordinary guys -- are gatecrashers and stowaways (John Cusack and his estranged family). But human drama isn't supposed to be the highlight of any disaster film. Special effects are the main draw. So, you actually don't mind the perfunctory manner in which the director handles his characters' bondings. There's Cusack trying to re-bond with his separated wife (Amanda Peet) and kids.

There's the scientist torn with grief because he can't take his dad on the secret ship. There's the US Prez (Danny Glover) who chooses not to abandon his countrymen and prefers to look for a kid's lost daddy, when doom dawns. And there's the scheming wannabe (Oliver Platt) who dreams of becoming Prez when the new world order begins. Oh yes, amongst all these usual types, there's also the mad prophet of doom cum radio jockey (Woody Harrelson), who wants to be the first to bring the news, even if it means standing in the face of a volcano. All the characters try to hold your attention as they battle apocalyptical blues.

And for the desi viewers, there is the special tribute the filmmaker pays to India. It's an Indian astrophycist, Satnam,(Jimy Mistry), working somewhere in East India, who cautions the world about the impending doom. So what if he's the archetypal third world citizen, forced to speak English with a desi accent. And so what if he is conveniently forgotten when the exodus begins. At least the American scientist in the survivors' ship, remembers him when the end begins and the desi geek is washed away by a tsunami, family et al. Shabash India!

Whatever the Movie wishes to transmit and cause panic to the world,  practicallty according speaking that  Dr. Raj Baldev,Cosmo Theorist from India, the lead man of God Believers, World Peace & Earth Saving Mission (WP&ESM), a noted personality in Astrology cum Astronomy, and a well travelled person, who has audience of several heads of states, and whose predictions are proved perfect even better than that of Nosterdome.

Dr. Raj Baldev, Lead man of God Believers, the most noted Cosmo Theorist has given his final word that nothing is going to happen in 2012, the prediction of earth's end has no signifiacance, however, the global warming shall continue affecting the Earth in stages if the people do not care to save the atmosphere as being planned by world leaders in December 2009. 

Dr. Raj Baldev, Cosmo Theorist, has already given his view in his book entitled "Two Big Bangs Created the Universe" (Formed in  Eternal Space) in 2003 regarding the storms in the Sun, which take affect every 11 years, certain damages to satellites could be there but nothing beyond to threat the world as the film tried to show.

 



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