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Evening Standard - Andrew O'Hagan | Screenrush Barometer:  |
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'But people now are inured to gigantic depictions of Things Going Wrong, and you leave the cinema after this film buzzing about how right they got it.' |
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The Daily Mail - Chris Tookey | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The biggest disaster movie ever' |
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The Financial Times - Nigel Andrews | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Visually the film is thrilling ... Sonically, 2012 is no less awesome ... dramatically - we cannot expect everything - it is business as usual: decoratively yelping females, alpha males discovering their omegas (or vice versa) and dialogue perversely enjoyable even when it reaches deep into kitsch or bathos.' |
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Time Out - Tom Huddleston | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Posterity will not be kind to '2012' ? and it definitely won't work on DVD ? but catch it on the biggest, noisiest screen available and approach it on its own terms, and it'll knock your socks off.' |
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Total Film - Neil Smith | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Had Emmerich whittled down his overstocked cast and downsized the soap opera, this really would have been a case of Apocalypse Wow. If you've an appetite for destruction, though, it'll still send you home with a smile on your face.' |
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The Sunday Times - Edward Porter | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'the film's second half, in which mankind's rescue plan kicks off, is dull in terms of action and paltry in its efforts to concoct a moral victory amid humongous loss of life.' |
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The Sun - The Sneak | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Thrilling, but not earth-shattering.' |
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Empire - Kim Newman | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Fundamentally terrible, but almost irresistibly entertaining. Its horrors get a tad monotonous in the mid-section, but it's still a value-for-money hoot.' |
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The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'This is a wildly over the top anthology of disaster pictures old and new, and Emmerich isn't above recycling other people's ideas. But it's enjoyable and the opening CGI thrill-ride through the collapsing streets of Los Angeles is undeniably good.' |
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The Guardian - Xan Brooks | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'nobody ever looked to Emmerich for nuance or subtlety. 2012, like all good disaster movies, is big and brash and gloriously over-the-top. One watches this knowing full well how dumb and unbelievable it all is, only to find your fists clenched and your brow sweating as one gut-wrenching action set-piece follows another.' |
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