Title

Directed by Roland Emmerich

Roland Emmerich
Produced by
Mark Gordon
Harald Kloser
Larry J. Franco
Ute Emmerich

SETTINGS:
Amerika

CAST

 John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a struggling science fiction novelist who

occasionally works as a limousine drive.]
 Chiwetel Ejiofor as Dr. Adrian Helmsley, geologist and scientific advisor to
the President of the USA[5]
 Amanda Peet as Kate Curtis, a medical student and Jackson's ex-wife[6]
 Liam James as Noah Curtis, Jackson and Kate's son
 Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, Jackson and Kate's daughter
 Thomas McCarthy as Dr. Gordon Silberman, Kate's current boyfriend, a
plastic surgeon [7]
 Danny Glover as Thomas Wilson, the President of the United States.[8]
 Thandie Newton as Dr. Laura Wilson, President Wilson's daughter[8]
 Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, the President's Chief of Staff[8]
 Zlatko Burić as Yuri Karpov, a Russian billionaire
 Beatrice Rosen as Tamara, Yuri's Russian girlfriend
 Alexandre Haussmann as Alec Karpov, one of Yuri's sons
 Philippe Haussmann as Oleg Karpov, Alec's twin brother
 Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost, a scientist disguised as a Yellowstone
hermit who explains the Mayan 2012 legends to Jackson Curtis
 Chin Han as Tenzin, a worker in Tibet
 Osric Chau as Nima, a Buddhist monk and Tenzin's brother
 Lisa Lu as Grandma Sonam, Nima and Tenzin's grandmother.
 John Billingsley, as Professor Frederic West, an American scientist
 Johann Urb as Sasha, a Russian pilot and Tamara's lover
 Blu Mankuma as Harry Helmsley, Adrian's father and Tony's musical
partner
 George Segal as Tony Delgatto, an elderly traveling musician and Harry's
musical partner
 Jimi Mistry as Dr. Satnam Tsurutani, an Indian scientist who helps discover
the events that are to come in India
 Stephen McHattie as Captain Michaels, the captain of the ark

INTRODUCTION

The world isn't safe when Roland Emmerich is behind the camera. The
master of disaster, the whore of death, the eater of souls, Roland Emmerich is
back at it, looking to top his previous epics with his magnum opus of destruction
films. Not content with wiping out much of the world's population by aliens
(Independence Day) or bad weather (The Day After Tomorrow), Emmerich
embraces the end of the Mayan calendar by unleashing 2012 upon movie audiences.
Let's just say that more people die in this movie than all of his other films
combined. And then some.

2012 is about the end of the world. You see, between the planets aligning
perfectly as they tend to do once every 640,000 years and the largest solar flare
in human history, the earth's core has begun to destabilize, resulting in a shift in
the poles, a shift of the earth's crust and the death of just about every human on
the planet - except those who are one of the lucky few selected by one of the
many governments to survive on board a fleets of arcs.

Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is not one of those people. But after hearing
about a crazy conspiracy theory by an even crazier Yellowstone radio jock (Woody
Harrelson) and listening to one of his client's cocky kids telling him that he's going
to die, he jumps into fast action to save his ex-wife (Amanda Peet) and children
from impending doom. Along with a few other lucky people, they find themselves in
a race against time as the world itself crumbles beneath them.
 The movie isn't without its flaws, though most are logic nitpicks that are
bound to crop up throughout a film like this. Strangely, one item that bugged me
the most was a cell phone conversation that takes place after most of the world
has been obliterated, as if cell phones would still be working under such
circumstances. Another moment that stands out, perhaps a more serious one, is
Peet's sudden kiss and "I love you" to her ex-husband at the end, just minutes
after the boyfriend she loved bites it.

When you begin with destroying the world, it's hard to top that in the climax.
We've already seen the huge tidal waves in the previews, so that leaves Emmerich
with few other cards up his sleeve. The climax takes place on board one of the
Arcs, leaving Cusack and the others to climb through the underbelly of the ship as
water seeps in and gears crank overhead. Oh, and the arc is sailing right towards
Mt. Everest. Unfortunately, this all seems so minor compared to the rest of the
movie, though it's hard to think of an alternate finale. All in all, the climax is still
exciting - it's just not as exciting as earlier in the movie.

CLIMAX

Going by the title itself, 2012, which is largely known for being the end of the
world (according to some calendars that is), I felt the Director should have followed the
buzz.
In simple words, Science and Technology (take NASA for example) says that
nothing of that sort will happen any where near in the future. But the Director, Ronald
Emmerich, has gone ahead boldly to say that fact that nothing can withstand the force of
the Nature. It was perfect till the end, but right there, technology (people) win over the
nature and some of them survive. I thought there was more to come and every body was
going to die, but sadly (or thankfully?) that was the end of it, People win over Natures
fury.
Most of the people (or almost all) who went to the movie would have gone by
looking at 2012 as nothing more than a fantasy thriller. And so the ending of
‘Everything’s finished’ could have been more Apt IMHO.
But any way, the movie was excellent, the best that I saw in the recent times. The
picturization (that should only be experienced on a BIG cinema screen with surround
sound) was exceptional from start to the end and the Hero (and his heroic son) received a
lot of applauds through out the film in the theater.
An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and
tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. 

LESSON LEARN
 1. 2012 is just a fantasy but a fantastic movie which is based on earth disaster.
The story moves around a family who face this disaster. Rest is "the end" but
with a good information that "Save Environment"!
2. In simple words, Science and Technology (take NASA for example) says
that nothing of that sort will happen any where near in the future. But
the Director, Ronald Emmerich, has gone ahead boldly to say that fact
that nothing can withstand the force of the Nature. It was perfect till
the end, but right there, technology (people) win over the nature and
some of them survive. I thought there was more to come and every body
was going to die, but sadly (or thankfully?) that was the end of it, People
win over Natures fury.

DIALOGS

The highest neutrino count ever! OMG!!!!!1111 The neutrinos are

causing a physical reaction WHAT? They're making a new form of
radiation and... uh... boiling water with it? I agree with you, Indian
smart dude. That's impossible. Except instead of impossible, I'd
probably just say "stupid." Congratulations, movie. It's only been three
minutes and I am already completely incapable of taking you
seriously.

And now ships full of rich white people are going to invade Africa
where the dry land is. Nothing could possibly go wrong there.

SUMMARY

In 2009, Dr. Adrian Helmsley, an American geologist visits astrophysicist Dr.

Satnam Tsurutani in India and learns that neutrinos from a massive solar flare are
causing the temperature of the Earth's core to increase rapidly. Adrian informs White
House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser and United States President Thomas Wilson that this
will trigger a catastrophic chain of natural disasters. In 2010, Wilson, along with other
international leaders, begins a massive, secret project intended to ensure that
humanity survives. Approximately 400,000 people are chosen to board ships called
"arks" that are constructed at Cho Ming, Tibet in the Himalayas. Additional funding for
the project is raised by selling tickets to the private sector for €1 billion per person. By
2011, they start to secretly move humanity's valuable treasures to the Himalayas under
the guise of protecting them from terrorist attacks, so that their history can survive
when the end comes.

In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a science fiction writer in Los Angeles who works

part-time as a limousine driver for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov. Jackson's ex-wife
Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with Kate's boyfriend, plastic surgeon and
amateur pilot, Gordon Silberman. Jackson takes Noah and Lily camping in Yellowstone
National Park, where they meet Charlie Frost, who hosts a radio show from the park.
Charlie references a theory that suggests the Mesoamerican Long Count
Calendar predicts that the 2012 phenomenon is going to occur. He has a map of the
ark project in addition to information of government officials and scientists from
around the world who were murdered after discovering information about the ark
project and trying to alert the general public. The family returns home as seismic
activity vastly increases along the US West Coast. Jackson grows suspicious and rents a
plane to rescue his family. He collects his family and Gordon as the Earth crust
displacement begins, and they narrowly escape Los Angeles using a Cessna 340 as the
city slides into thePacific Ocean.

As millions die in cataclysmic earthquakes worldwide, the group flies to

Yellowstone to retrieve Charlie's map, escaping as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts.
Remaining at his site to broadcast the eruption, Charlie is killed in the blast. Learning
the arks are in China, the group lands in Las Vegas, which has a huge fissure running
through the airport's runway. Here, they meet Yuri, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara
and pilot Sasha. The group secures the Antonov 500 aircraft and departs for China.
Also heading for the arks aboard Air Force One are Anheuser, Helmsley, and First
Daughter Laura Wilson. President Wilson chooses to remain in Washington D.C. and is
soon killed by a megatsunamiwhich sends the USS  John F. Kennedy crashing into
the White House. With the Vice President also dead and the Speaker of the
Housemissing, Anheuser assumes de facto leadership of the United States of America,
although he is not in the line of succession.

Arriving in China in a crash landing that kills Sasha, the group is then spotted by
the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Yuri and his sons, possessing tickets, are taken
to the arks. The Curtis family, Gordon, and Tamara, none of whom possess tickets, are
picked up by Nima, aBuddhist monk on his way to the arks. They stowaway with the
help of Nima's brother, Tenzin, who has been working on the ark project's construction
crew. After Ark 4 is fully loaded Yuri, Alec and Oleg are the only three left unboarded
Yuri helps Alec get on board. After Alec is on board Yuri managed to get Oleg on the
ark by jumping and throwing Oleg. When Oleg grabs Alec's hands Yuri fall's down the
Ark track and dies. Shortly, a megatsunami approaches the site as tens of thousands of
people are attempting to board the final ark, when a large impact driver becomes
lodged between the gears of the ark's hydraulics chamber, preventing a boarding gate
from closing and rendering the ship unable to start its engines. In the ensuing chaos,
Yuri, Gordon and Tamara are killed, Tenzin is wounded and the flooding ark is set
adrift. Jackson and Noah free the impact driver from the closing mechanism, and the
crew regains control of the ark, preventing a fatal collision with Mount Everest.

Later, after floodwaters from the tsunamis have receded, three arks set sail for
the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, where the Drakensberg Mountains have risen
in relation to sea level. Jackson reconciles with his family and Adrian starts a
relationship with Laura. The Earth is shown from space, revealing a radically changed
continental landscape.