2012 **

Roland Emmerich co-wrote and directed this Action film which stars: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson. Rated PG-13 for intense disaster sequences and some language. Run time is two hours and thirty-eight minutes.

An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world as we know it and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

If that plot description looks skimpy, it's exactly what you get in this movie. The special effects are very good but they ought to be since that's where most of the production money went. The plot itself is very predictable (think Poseidon Adventure) and extremely emotionally manipulative during the last half hour. About the only reason to see this is as a prequel to the purported TV series to be made concerning the fate of the survivors in 2013. If you really feel you want to subject yourself to 2012 be sure to do so in a big theatre. The special effects will lose their impact on a TV screen, leaving you with exactly nothing worthwhile to fill the unnecessarily long two hours and forty minutes.