Jackson Curtis picks up his two kids from his ex-wife Kate, planning to take a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park. There, they run into Charlie Frost, a conspiracy theorist who tells Jackson about the Mayan 2012 prediction that the world was coming to an end, and that the worlds elite were going to escape it, somehow. Jackson blows him off at first, but upon the familys return to Los Angeles, hes tasked to go pick up the brats of his Russian mobster boss, Yuri Karpov. They taunt Curtis about their survival while he and everyone else is going to die. Even though the map says it take only 14 hours, 21 minutes to drive, its based on the idea that you arent stopping for anything. Anyone whos taken kids on a road trip knows that aint happening. At best, thats a 17-hour drive, with stops for gas, food and potty breaks. Yet Curtis seems to make it there and back with relative speed and quickness. Curtis starts to put things together and comes to the conclusion that Frost was right. He rushes back to pick up Kate, the kids and her boyfriend Gordon. The foretold disaster starts then, with earthquakes ripping apart L.A. Curtis and his family make it back to the airport and steal a private plane, taking off as L.A. falls into the sea in giant slabs underneath them. They fly to Yellowstone to get Charlies map of where the elites are going, then narrowly escape the explosion of Yellowstones supervolcano. They make their way to Las Vegas, where Yuri is unable to get his private plane out. They steal a Russian Antonov cargo plane, narrowly escape the destruction of Las Vegas, and head on to Tibet, with a planned stop in Honolulu for refueling. As you can see on the map, its a lot more efficient to do the hop over the North Pole than it is to fly to Hawaii, and the Antonov has sufficient range (provided that it was fully fueled). Given the current state of emergency in the world, what makes them think theyll be able to get fuel in Hawaii, anyway? Theres also something strange about the plot point that the earths magnetic points have shifted. They made it to Hawaii okay; did the earth shift in that four hours since they left Hawaii? And even if they did, that shouldnt affect distance traveled. Its still a long way to Tibet from Honolulu.
