Roland Emmerichs 2012 Script Review

Bob sent over word that he got an early copy of Roland Emmerichs 2012 and has reviewed it. So first off its worth pointing out there are some spoilers below and also its worth noting Bob says the script BLOWS.

2012 is the latest offering from hundred million dollar-plus B-movie maestro Roland Emmerich (it’s co-written by Emmerich and Harald Kloser (who apparently can’t even spell his own name) and “polished” by Matt Charman)). Chances are that if you live on planet earth, millions of marketing dollars have ensured that you have heard of this man’s films: Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 B.C. Chances are that you’ve seen a couple of these films, and secretly like at least one of them (though probably not The Patriot). Chances are also that you probably hate the part of yourself that likes this one film of his and wish it would die (in my case, I have an ineradicable fondness for The Day After Tomorrow that has baffled a whole team of doctors who've tried to cure me of it (at least the first half, before the whole Dennis Quaid treks across the frozen continent to save his son for no reason at all part takes over and even I tune out)). In any case, you’re no doubt very familiar with the Roland Emmerich Recipe: take a big disaster, stir in a multiethnic cast full of a few heroes and few bits of “comic relief,” add feces, and press to 35mm film. 2012 is a soufflé made with religious adherence to this recipe.

2012 is basically The Day After Tomorrow, but makes less sense. There’s a disaster on its way that’s going to completely change the environment and destroy a lot of cities. The ridiculous cause of the Disaster is explained in one Mumbo Jumbo scene, and then we see characters survive that Disaster. In Tomorrow, it was something involving Global Warming that made everything cold instantaneously. Here, it’s an Apocalypse forecast by the Mayans or some shit. The pseudo-scientific explanation has something to do with the planets of the solar system aligning, the Sun sending lots of radiation out, and then apparently that causes a bunch of earthquakes, tidal waves, and volcanoes on earth.

The Day After Tomorrow was mediocre at best so to say this movie is WORSE Then that film is a really really bad sign. Go here to read the entire script review.