Girls of Geek Movie Review: "2012"

Written by Scotty

It is hard to predict how you will react when put into an extreme situation.  Will you shy away or will you be on the front lines yelling ‘Bring it On!’?  Or will you be more worried about the people around you and trying to get them to safety?  There are so many different emotions that you will encounter when being put into these kind of situations and whichever one you give into will be the one that you will go with until it is over. 

Jackson Curtis is feeling down on life, but he does have something that makes him smile, his kids.  Being late again when picking them up from his ex-wife’s house, Jackson has a long weekend planned for them and wants it to be memorable.  Arriving at Yellowstone, Jackson and his kids see that there are several fences up and without understanding why, they decide to jump them and hike on to the lake where Jackson proposed to his ex.  Being met by several men with M-16’s, Jackson has stumbled on to something more than he expected with the lake being drained and the military keeping a lock down on what is going on.  But all is not lost on the trip as Jackson is approached by a crazy man named Charlie Frost who knows exactly what is going on.

With current findings from the rapidly increasing solar storms, Adrian Helmsley is trying to find an answer to when the world is going to end. With the help from his friend across the world, he has found that there is a time table and no way of stopping it.  Having to approach the President about the issue, Helmsley is forced to tell the truth about what is about to happen to the United States, along with the world.  With the future events being kept a secret from the world, Helmsley is forced to stay tight lipped on the situation, but knows that there is a way to keep more of the world safe from its impending doom.

As the clock ticks, events around the world are getting worse. Los Angeles is starting to show several surface cracks on its streets, along with tearing apart grocery stores.  With the news and the governor telling everyone that everything is fine, the people of the city rest assured, but it is just a front as a 10.4 earthquake hits the region.  As everyone tries to evacuate the city, most of them are lost to the massive cracks opening up, but that is not enough to stop everyone from getting out as any type of air craft can take them to safety.  As L.A. falls into the Pacific Ocean, there is a race to find a band of ships that have been built in secret for the past year, but with all of the destruction around the world, it will be amazing if anyone will be able to find their way to China to be saved.

If you are looking for a good disaster movie to watch, 2012 is hard to beat.  But it is not for the effects on the screen, it is for the human reaction to what is happening around them.  Selfless acts can be a hard thing to come by in an event such as this, but this movie really does focus on how people can pull together for the greater good, rather than run for the hills and let everyone else perish.  I really enjoyed the character focus in this movie and it is not just in the two that I have listed above, but everyone.  There are several different storylines that you have to follow in this movie, but all of them are essential for the final payoff.  It is always good to look ahead and see what the world is going to throw your way, but even if we do this, we still may not be ready for what is right in front of us.  Happy Viewing.

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