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As a result of a solar flare, the core of the Earth begins to heat up - catastrophes are coming, which the world has not yet seen. World governments are secretly developing a plan of salvation, but only a small part of the planet's inhabitants will be among the chosen ones. The rest will have to come to terms with their fate or fight to the end to save themselves and their family - as the writer Jackson (John Cusack) will have to fight, who accidentally learned that the world will soon end.

2012 4K Review
The Earth's core has gone mad under the influence of solar radiation. All over the world - earthquakes and tsunamis. A failed writer and a Russian oligarch, both with their families, are hoping to escape.

2012 is sort of the Ultimate Catastrophe Film. The richest, the most beautiful, the most ambitious. He closes the topic, exhausts the genre. Roland Emmerich could not have made such a movie before - special effects were too expensive, and a suitable concept did not turn up. But now ... Las Vegas - crunch, in half! San Francisco - crunch, half-and-half! Hawaii - into the stove! Himalayas - drown like a kitten! Volcano - please! An earthquake is not a question! The scene with the destruction of St. Peter's Cathedral appears as a vignette, the destruction of the White House as a good drinking joke.

All the meteorites from "Armageddon", all the water from the "Titanic", all the giant waves from the "Abyss" (or "Collision with the Abyss", or his own "The Day After Tomorrow") Emmerich collects and at once shoots into the face of the viewer. Every five minutes, he boastfully presents a flawlessly rendered cataclysm, which by old standards would hold the whole picture. "2012" can be viewed as the fun of a man who arranged football matches for a long time - but then got tired and decided, following the example of Hottabych, to throw 22 balls onto the field at once. Or as a whim of a pornographer who realized that he had tired the viewer with paired performances of artists and in the new film launched a colossal multi-figured orgy, which should, as it were, crown the entire body of his creations. But in fact, the key word in both comparisons is "tired."

Earlier, Emmerich regularly invented non-existent problems for his viewers (aliens, Godzilla) with the only goal: they had to be solved together with the heroes, then come to their senses and remember that you are standing on solid ground, you live in the most powerful country in the world, and in fact everything well. The White House was destroyed - nothing, we will rebuild it in the same place, even more beautiful than the previous one. Now Emmerich is tired of calming Western civilization: these are half measures. He takes it - boring, rotten, confused - already in earnest in order to build his own, fresh, updated. In The Day After Tomorrow, the Northern Hemisphere was dying, and the Americans were pounding towards the borders of Mexico, which they despised yesterday, begging to be allowed in. In 2012, the hint is even clearer: now India (the most far-sighted scientists there), China (they know how to build arks the fastest there), Russia (the biggest planes there) and Africa ("Africa has risen!" States one character, studying the changed relief).

In general, everything is cool, except for the USA and Europe: they are depopulated, they are destroyed, and rightly so. As if in his old age in Emmerich, a leftist student from a German film school woke up and screamed, who wants to reshape the world with the sharp edge of celluloid film. Of course, in practice "2012" is still primarily a set of attractions, an apocalyptic amusement park. Of course, for the viewer, this is just a safe and kind of psychotherapeutic experiment. As always with Emmerich, the key characters survive (this is reminiscent of the fantasy of a six-year-old child who is trying to realize the fact of his mortality and mentally winds up scary tales with the obligatory ending "Everyone will die, but I will stay"). What these survivors will do next is not clear, but in any case, the old fears are gone. The redrawn world has lost all its good, over which it was shaking so much, but it has gained freedom.

The last line of the film is "I don't need waterproof panties anymore." A very suitable ending for the Ultimate Catastrophe Film as seen by Roland Emmerich.

Info Blu-ray
Video
Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Upscaled 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: Dolby Digital 5.1

Subtitles
English, English SDH, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish.