3.5 out of 5 stars

BestFlick brings you our movie review for 2012, Columbia Pictures‘ thrill ride of a movie. Directed and part-written by Roland Emmerich, the guy who brought you that other epic disaster movie “The Day After Tomorrow“, the trailer brought thousand of viewers to cinemas and theaters all over the country, your truly included, to witness it.

This movie was an exercise in destruction and devastation — and graphic effects to be sure. But let us tell you right off the bat that if you’re looking for an intellectually-solid script a la “A Few Good Men“, you won’t find it here. If you got excited by the trailer and just want a thrill ride, that’s what you’ll get.

The storyline, the part where most criticisms of this movie are targeted, is actually simple and solid enough for you to follow. The presentation was weaved into the film in the most logical way possible. The film was actually telling simple stories of characters affected by the drama of an apocalypse, and went about it with few enough frills. The logic may have been because, script nor story were neither the highlight of this movie — it was the visuals.

And boy are you in for some very detailed visual rendering. At one point, you actually forget that most of this were graphically-rendered — yes, it was that good. The attention to detail was such that if you enjoyed this movie, you would probably get excited at the thought of owning this in BluRay, where the sound and the digital quality would bbe nothing short of amazing, I would imagine.

We give this 3.5 stars, there was nothing really groundbreaking and innovative about the film, or the way it told the story. But it was a darned good thrill ride. It was a tad bit long for its own good (2hrs, 45mins) but to its defense, the dragging moments were few and far between, if at all any.

If you haven’t seen it, we suggest you see it on the basis that it should be a fun watch — not something to stimulate you intellectually. Do that and you might actually enjoy the movie like I did. And also, get your Blue-Ray drives ready for when this comes out in Blu-Ray media.

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