13 November,2009 07:49 AM IST | | Swati Kumari
Is the after-thought 2012 haunts you with
You may've feasted on generous morsels of animation every now and then, and this one, we're sure, makes it to the chef's special. A car zips through the city in the face of a terrible earthquake and a plane manages to take flight just before the runway collapses. If that's not edge-of-the-seat enough, director Roland Emmerich, who's so lovingly destroyed humanity in his previous movies like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, excels himself this time. The whole of California slides into the sea, tsunamis crush the world's capitals, and you freeze in your seat. People are swallowed by waves, felled by buildings, consumed by fire, hit by a US aircraft carrier, destroyed by explosions and devoured by nasty crevices, but your sadistic pleasures from the superb screenplay only multiply with every catastrophe. John Cusack takes centrestage, playing a divorced dad and a failed writer. The story revolves around how his family attempts to escape the doom. The only one lesson that lingers: Keep a billion euros handy. Don't have 'em? Works if you have enough for the ticket.
2012 is showing at leading theatres in town
