10 Worst Disaster Movies Of All Time
3. 2012
2012 is a big film. It's long, ungainly, and wholly lacking in anything even approaching quality. It truly is a Roland Emmerich production.
Nearly everything about 2012 is nauseating. The plot follows John Cusack as a down on his luck author who gets entangled with a Russian oligarch during the end of the world. It should be silly fun, but it's the opposite.
It cannot be stressed just how annoying all the characters are in this film. Cusack's Jackson Curtis is a whiny, unbelievable man, who's book is meant to save the world (or something). It's preposterous.
The rest of the characters fall into either one of two categories: really irritating or an offensive stereotype. What one do you think the Russian oligarch falls into?
The destruction sequences are visually impressive, certainly, but they go on for so long that they eventually become exhausting. Everything begins to blend into one as our characters ludicrously avoid death at literally every turn. Somehow they avoid the end of the world in a crappy car.
2012 is also one hundred and fifty-nine minutes long, for reasons that defy human logic. Presumably Emmerich designed the film to be an endurance test. Just how long can an audience deal with being hit over the head with this graceless production?