2012
Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 34 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 34
  3. Negative: 6 out of 34
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    100
    There's something to be said for a formula picture done almost to perfection. In 2012, Emmerich gives you everything you expect, but gives it to you bigger.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Dan Kois
    100
    2012 takes the disaster movie -- once content simply to threaten the Earth with a comet, or blow up the White House -- to its natural conclusion, the literal end of the world.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    The mother of all disaster movies (and the father, and the extended family) spends half an hour on ominous set-up scenes (scientists warn, strange events occur, prophets rant and of course a family is introduced) and then unleashes two hours of cataclysmic special events hammering the Earth relentlessly.

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User Score
5.5 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 484 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 101 out of 212
  2. Mixed: 35 out of 212
  3. Negative: 76 out of 212
  1. grandpajoe6191
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. "2012" is a disastrous movie that you wouldn't want happening to you. Think about it; Decent CGI buildings following down with cliched people running around with limousines and hiding inside **** arks. Hell, I don't want that happening....… Full Review »
  2. JawsPapi87
    3
    Way too long and actually uninteresting. Predictable and terribly scripted, too with way too little self-aware comedy. No emotion and only one bright spot being Woody Harrelson… Full Review »
  3. Film_Fanatic_15
    3
    The film was nothing more than another Hollywood publicity stunt driven by special effects. And the effects weren't spectacular anyway. The effects looked cheap, rushed, and was the only thing that was keeping this movie alive. The major downfall of this movie is that it was made to begin with. Not even great actors like Danny Glover could save this movie. Spending the entire time in a russian plane trying to escape disaster? Get real.… Full Review »
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