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(1 - 50) of 50 OFCS Rating: 30% Rotten Page   1   3.5/5 "Roland Emmerich's 2012th epic disaster movie to date (give or take) is spectacularly loud, laughably ludicrous and insanely entertaining for all the wrong reasons."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "Amazing special effects assume the starring role here, but cast members also deserve recognition for adding a humanistic touch to this over-the-top disaster movie."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C "If you feel like you've seen all this genre has to offer, save your ten dollars and take comfort that you're probably right."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3.5/5 "Step right up and prepare to be mesmerized, bowled over, and generally blown away by Roland Emmerich's 2012, a movie that is guaranteed to be the last word on impending cinematic Armageddon for the foreseeable future."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 1.5/4 "It's cinematic waterboarding and there was more than one occasion during the film when I was convinced it was never going to end."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   Brian Orndorf 3/5 "Too long by an hour and populated with nothing but stereotypes, we ultimately want the world to come to an end, if only so we can get up and go to the bathroom."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null C- "Sure the blu-ray DVD will look great on your home theater as ambient background for your next house party, but that's about it."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "As the action becomes less fabulous and more repetitive over 2012's 150 minutes, the philosophical debate ratchets up."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "It's pointless to fault '2012' for being silly or perpetuating scientific and historic baloney. Instead, the new movie's unforgivable transgression is that it fails to make any of the apocalyptic destruction fun."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger A- "In the proud tradition of Roland Emmerich movies, "2012" is incredible in every sense of the word: totally not credible, and yet hugely entertaining."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 2.5/4 "...2012's relentless emphasis on destruction ensures that most viewers will inevitably walk away satisfied."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "Giant-sized, explosive and technically astounding. This is no less than the end of the world Roland Emmerich is dealing with, and he tosses into the pot so much delirious spectacle that, yes, there are even kitchen sinks in sight."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D "Why does Roland Emmerich enjoy killing off humanity?"   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens 1/5 "Uno supone que presenciar el fin del mundo debería ser un evento realmente dramático, sin embargo estamos ante una película excesiva y ridícula que se parodia involuntariamente a sí misma."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C+ "A very long, very loud, and very stupid disaster flick that apparently accomplishes what it set out to do, which was to be long, loud, and stupid."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B- "The scenes of destruction composed by Emmerich's team--earthquakes, tsunamis, rains of earth and fire--have an enveloping majesty; they transcend mere expensive photorealism and cross over into art."   AMCtv.com   Eugene Novikov "Emmerich deals in crayon-kit characterizations and shots of famous monuments crumbling into dust"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce D+ "The amount of inanity exceeds the quantity of the special effects...and the movie is filled to the brim with them."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "Spectacular special effects and one of the dumbest screenplays of the year."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 1.5/4 "If, as is believed in certain fringe circles, the world will come to an end in 2012, at least there will be no more movies like this one made."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "works best when it immerses us in the vulgar mayhem, rather than when it's asking us to care too deeply"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "there is a misanthropic rush to be had from watching all those cities getting destroyed real good."   fantastiqueZINE   James O'Ehley 3/5 "(Many) will decry "2012" as a plotless, illogical, clichéd, demented popcorn flick (because it is), but this is that rare case where the apocalypse, at least in terms of big-budget blown-up spectacle movie-making, is hardly the end of the world."   MSN Movies   James Rocchi 4/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 5/10 "Pour le "meilleur" et pour le pire, le cinéaste allemand nous livre au bout de ces deux heures et demie de tapage et d'exubérance son oeuvre la plus aboutie à ce jour."   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy "Master of Disaster Roland Emmerich lives down to his reputation with what amounts to the biggest snuff film of all time."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 3/5 "full review at Movies for the Masses"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4.5/5 "My enthusiasm for 2012 is not because I think it's high art with an important social message. Screw that %u2013 this movie is about pure spectacle, and it pulls that off fabulously."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.0/2.0 "If you want to see the most incredible end-of-the-world footage rendered since Nic Cage's Knowing, buy a ticket. Otherwise, it'll look just fine on your television next year."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3/5 "The money shots are there in spades for 2012. It's utterly unbelievable but a blast to watch. And on a big screen, it's pretty impressive."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr C- "Cliched, bombastic, coincidental, corny and technologically implausible, "2012" is so silly it might be entertaining if it didn't go on so long."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "There's so much ambitious spectacle, but it's surrounded by so many lazy contrivances that one would want to gasp in astonishment if one weren't chuckling and groaning in aggravation so often."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik D+ "Emmerich would be better off losing the pretense of respectability and embracing the B-movie showmanship that is clearly his strength."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Emmerich wasn't content to merely make the biggest disaster movie ever: he had to make every disaster movie ever... [I]t's like something Ed Wood would have made if he had a budget..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/4 "A boring, stupid, overlong, obnoxious, soulless piece of Hollywood "product.""   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C- ""2012" is yet another example of technological genius and story-telling mediocrity."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow D "The defining entrant in, and the nadir of, the disaster porn genre."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "Se a morte de seis bilhões de pessoas ajudar uma criança a abandonar as fraldas, não terá tudo valido a pena?"   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "A graceless mess that will insult the intelligence of everyone who encounters it, even those who were actually looking forward to seeing it in the first place."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Gleefully over-the-top, this film takes the disaster movie pretty much as far as it can go"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "In the final forty-five minutes the movie starts to feel very long and played-out."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves D "The audience paid for money shots, and money shots are what they get."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux 4/10 "...goes on so long it starts to feel like the fifth piece of chocolate cake when two or three would have been more enjoyable."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh 1.5/5 "Emmerich wavers between shocking, silly, and maudlin like a toddler would fingerpaint with red, yellow, and blue."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 1.5/4 "Packages the disaster-happy director's greatest hits into one cataclysmic picture."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 2/4 "If 2012 is an apotheosis of all disaster movies, that means it's also an apotheosis of all disaster-movie clichés."   Christianity Today   Steven D. Greydanus 5/10 "Formulaic and frenzied, it's a spectacular but ultimately silly blast, drawing on every cataclysmic disaster movie you've ever seen for its Noah's Ark flood concept."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "A more delightfully bad movie hasn't been seen in all of 2009."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3/5 "If Roland Emmerich's 2012 is to be believed, the world won't end with a whimper, but rather with a super-ultra-mega-bang."   eFilmCritic.com   William Goss  (1 - 50) of 50 OFCS Rating: 30% Rotten Page   1