Every so now and then, hollywood producers have morbid fascination about the end of the world. This fascination is translated into nail biting motion picture to fill our weekend void. Roland Emmerich, after his success of directing apocalyptic themed movies, such as Independence Day (1996) and The day after tomorrow (2004), once again showed his brilliance in the movie “2012”. Easily one of the more anticipated movie in town, it lived up to its hype when movie goers thronged all the cinemas in town(yes, even the run down GSC KK had a near full house). If friends bump into each other in the cinema, questions like “are you watching 2012?” will certainly be greeted with, “of course lah”. Watching other movies on opening weekend is almost frowned upon. The movie greets its audience with a scene showing that there is something amiss about our frail planet. From then on, we follow character of Adrian, a scientist bent on saving the entire citizen of the US from total annihilation. Our ...
