Mayan calendar predictions end of the world 2012 movie review

2012 is a 2009 action disaster film based loosely on the 2012 phenomenon and directed by Roland Emmerich. The film has an ensemble cast, including John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Woody Harrelson. The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Filming began in August 2008 in Vancouver. The film is set in a modern setting and only brushes on Mayanism and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.
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In 2009, the sun emits a massive solar flare. American scientist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) travels to a neutrino detector in a copper mine in India to meet his friend, Satnam (Jimi Mistry), who has discovered that Earth's core temperature is increasing rapidly. Adrian returns to Washington D.C. and submits a report to Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt), who immediately takes him to see US President Thomas Wilson (Danny Glover). In 2010, Wilson tells other heads of state and heads of government the situation at the 36th G8 summit and the creation of a number of arks begin in preparation for the world ending. To fund the venture, billionaires are allowed a ticket for one billion euros.
2012 movie plot:
In 2012, Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is a divorced father who works as a limousine driver and writer. His ex-wife Kate (Amanda Peet) and their children Noah (Liam James) and Lily (Morgan Lily) live with her new boyfriend, plastic surgeon Gordon (Thomas McCarthy). Jackson takes Noah and Lily on a camping trip to Yellowstone, where they meet Charlie Frost (Woody Harrelson), a radio show host and conspiracy theorist who believes in the Mayans' prediction of the world ending in 2012. The family return home as cracks begin to develop along the San Andreas Fault in California and earthquakes occur in the San Francisco Bay area. Despite government assurances that all is fine, Jackson grows suspicious and hires a private plane to rescue his family and Gordon. As the Earth's crust displacement begins, Jackson collects his family and escapes Los Angeles as it collapses into the Pacific Ocean.

As millions begin dying in apocalyptic earthquakes the world over, the group fly back to Yellowstone to collect a map from Charlie so they can try and reach the arks. They narrowly escape as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts, killing Charlie who remains behind to watch. Realising the arks are in China, the group lands in Las Vegas and meets up with Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov (Zlatko Buric), who Jackson works as a limo driver for. Karpov, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara (Beatrice Rosen) and pilot, Sasha (Johann Urb) join the group as they head across the Pacific.

President Wilson meanwhile elects to stay behind in Washington D.C., and dies when the carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy smashes into the White House, caused by a tsunami hitting the city, while Anheuser escapes with Helmsley and First Daughter Laura Wilson (Thandie Newton) on Air Force One, also bound for the arks. In the wake of the President's death, the Vice President being killed in a helicopter crash outside Pittsburgh, and the Speaker of the House missing Anheuser appoints himself Commander-in-Chief.

Crash-landing in the Himalayas (which kills Sasha), Jackson and his family (along with Tamara) are deserted by Karpov, who has a ticket for himself and his sons onto the arks. However, the group is able to get aboard with the help of a Buddhist monk, Nima (Osric Chau) and his brother Tenzin (Chin Han) who worked on the ark project.

Tsunamis begin to engulf the Indian peninsula as heads of state, hand-picked individuals chosen to repopulate the Earth and the rich elite who bought the tickets begin boarding. Adrian realises they have much less time than anticipated and Anheuser orders the arks be sealed early, although in conference with other G8 leaders Adrian, quoting Jackson's book, manages to convince them to open the gates and let the remaining people on board.

Below decks Jackson's group is sneaking aboard, but as the gates open again, Gordon falls between two gears and is crushed. As the gates start to close once more, Yuri sacrifices his life to get his two sons on in time, and Tamara drowns in a compartment. Jackson realizes their entry into the ark has jammed the door mechanism, setting the entire ark on a crash course with Mount Everest. Together with his son, Jackson fixes the problem in time for the ark to suffer only minimal damage from hitting the mountainside.

When the flood eventually recedes, satellite data shows that Africa rose in sea level and may not have flooded at all. As three arks set sail for the Cape of Good Hope, Jackson reconciles with his family and Helmsley starts a relationship with Laura. The movie ends with a view of the world showing the dramatically changed African continent. Plot info (c)wikipedia.org

2012 movie Cast:

John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a science fiction book writer who occasionally works as a limousine driver
Amanda Peet as Kate Curtis, Jackson's ex-wife
Liam James as Noah Curtis, Jackson and Kate's son
Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, Jackson and Kate's daughter
Thomas McCarthy as Gordon, Kate's current boyfriend and a plastic surgeon.
Danny Glover as Thomas Wilson, the President of the United States
Thandie Newton as Laura Wilson, the First Daughter
Chiwetel Ejiofor as Adrian Helmsley, scientific advisor to the President
Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, the President's Chief of Staff
Chin Han as Tenzin, a worker in Tibet
Osric Chau as Nima, a Buddhist monk and Tenzin's brother
Zlatko Burić as Yuri Karpov, a Russian billionaire
Johann Urb as Sasha, a Russian pilot
Beatrice Rosen as Tamara, Yuri's Russian girlfriend
Jimi Mistry as Satnam, a scientist who helps discover the events that are to come in India.
Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost, a Yellowstone hermit who prophesies the end of the world and is considered crazy by others. Harrelson compared his character to the mythological Greek figure Cassandra, whose predictions were dismissed