Great movie, especially for the computer graphics effects. You must go and watch it, but don’t forget the 3D glasses!

To be honest I was expecting much more from the new “catastrophic” Roland Emmerich’s film, “2012″, released last weekend in cinemas ..

I certainly appreciated the special effects, at least the originality of the apocalyptic scenes, not so much the overall quality. The plot tries to be convincing but it is regularly interrupted by bad jokes and mainly by a grueling series of impossible coincidences, which end up helping the protagonists to even reach the slopes of Mount Everest after they had to abandon a devastated California swallowed by ocean waters.

I have to say I’m getting tired of these exaggerated plots, typical of a Hollywood style which too often seems to focus only on entertainment and vision rather than on “real” contents. I would have preferred a more realistic approach despite the fictional theme of the end of the world.

Just the last note about something which made me smile .. Apparently in the movie our Italian Prime Minister decides to not buy (at the modest sum of 1 million euro) a seat on one of the spaceships built to save the human race and therefore die as a hero in the world disaster. Well, considering the way he firmly holds his chair along with his privileges (this applies to almost the entire political class) I think this is definitely another very unrealistic evolution of the story ..