2012 movie reviews have been mixed. The film is a disaster movie based upon the prediction of the end of the world in 2012 by the Mayan calendar.

• Rated 38% fresh by RottenTomatoes.com (38% positive/62% negative reviews).
• "As big as the planet Earth and just as cheesy, Roland Emmerich's 2012 provides plenty of visual thrills, but lacks a strong enough script to support its massive scope and inflated length." -- RottenTomatoes.comhttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/2012/
• "2012 delivers what it promises, and since no sentient being will buy a ticket expecting anything else, it will be, for its audiences, one of the most satisfactory films of the year." -- Rogert Ebert, Chicago Sun-Timeshttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091111/REVIEWS/911119994
• "[W]hile it's entertaining for most of its excessive running time, the cheesy script fails to live up to the grandeur of the physical production." -- Stephen Farber Hollywood Reporter
• "If, as is believed in certain fringe circles, the world will come to an end in 2012, at least there will be no more movies like this one made." -- James Berardinelli, ReelViews
• "I quite enjoyed the experience, at least the first five or six hours of it. 2012 is not simply the last disaster movie you ever need to see. It's the last movie you ever need to see." -- Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

The movie follows the prophecy of the ancient Mayan calendar which says the world will end on December 21, 2012. After global disasters create chaos, Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) attempts to ensure that humankind survives.