
Last night, I was one of the few people in Malaysia and perhaps in the world to watch 2012 earlier before the movie opens to the public. It was the Premiere Screening of 2012 in Cathay Cineplex Damansara. Because of we watching earlier, there was security check before going into the movie hall. No camera phones, laptops, pdas, cameras and recorders were allowed to bring in. All of us have to deposit our phones to the deposit counter. Gosh…. it is more strict than Airport security check.
Now lets talk about the movie… I’m sure some of you watched The Day After Tomorrow before. 2012 is directed by the director of The Day After Tomorrow, Roland Emmerich. The scale of the disaster is way bigger than in The Day After Tomorrow and it is very thrilling at the second half of the movie. This movie is worth watching and of course there is always a happy ending to this disaster movie. In this movie, you can see how the Earth plates move that cause massive earthquake, tsunami, volcanic activity and shift the earth land. It is definitely the best Disaster movie of the year. CAUTION: SPOILER AHEAD.
SPOILER
The movie starts with a group of scientists in India found out that Earth core is heating up due to a huge sun flare in 2009 (time in the movie). Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) found out about it from one of the scientists and inform the US President about it. In 2010 (time in the movie), 42 countries come out with a survival plan where several ships will be built to save the mankind from the biggest catastrophic on Earth. In order to prevent havoc, no one is allow to tell about the disaster to the public. Along the way, few people was killed because of exposing the details to the public.
In year 2012, Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), a novel writer brings his kids to Yellowstone for camping but he found out the lake he used to visit is gone due to the Earth core is heating up and dry up the lake. He was stopped by military and from there he met Adrian Helmsley who now work for the White House. After the military released him, he met a guy who tell him about the world going to end and the governments are building a big space ship to save the mankind. The guy told him that he got the map of the ship location. Jackson thought he is crazy to talk about all these things.
After a series of earth quake happened in California, Jackson started to realise something is not right and what the guy told him about the world going to end is happening. He quickly get his ex-wife and children to board a plane in the airport to run away from California. In order to save his family from the disaster, he has to bring them to the space ship that the guy mentioned to him earlier which is the only hope left but he need to find out the location of the ship. So he went back to find back the guy and get the map. The location appears to be in Cho-ming, China which is very far from California.
The journey to China is not very smooth and a very bumpy one. Is he manage to get his family to China onboard the ship? Will the ship able to save mankind? Will mankind wipeout completely? How the earth change after the disaster? To know about it, be sure to catch the movie in the cinema near you.