Matthew Vernon This is a review without the horrid comments that I've seen in other reviews. Let's give some mixed points:+ Okay acting: Some members of the cast performed ably. These few actors deserved better written roles in better movies despite what others on here have said. Some acting, on the other hand, is just bad, bad, bad. The woman who played Sarah had her good moments and her bad moments. When she's talking about her duty from God to stay in Mexico and help... she's like a wooden plank. And so is that random Mexican guy that she's talking to.Convenience: The biggest mistake you can make in a movie or novel is by inserting convenience and convenience. When reporting the quakes to his boss at the NSA, he mentions the one random Mexican town where the archaeologists are working. That then makes the boss worried. You've mentioned well known cities... and then thrown in a completely unknown name.Little details: A storm is approaching... the trees aren't moving? A man furiously typing during a huge emergency... his computer's not even turned on. How am I supposed to take your movie seriously when some guy's typing on a laptop that's not even on?+/- Template movie: You can see that a fair amount of work has gone into writing and realising the movie. There's also a fair amount of research into the Mayan calendar but the embellishment and embarrassing elaboration just makes it silly. Successful movies indeed expand history and myth for their own benefit... but it has to be believable. You don't want a template movie. You want your own movie.+/- Use of budget: Lots of movies have budgets that don't cover what they want to do. They have grand ideas of what should happen in the movie but can't realise it because the money is not enough. You don't need fancy CGI or animatronics to make a movie. Carefully selected actors and a solid story line is all you need to win over an audience.Random information: I never even realised, for example, that "Sarah" was the daughter of the NSA boss. I didn't even know about the Earth's rotation. Either I couldn't pay enough attention or it wasn't made clear... or... it was just thrown in by the writer.I originally gave it a two. After thinking carefully, I would say it's a three. Not because I'm generous, but because I've seen a lot worse. Effort has been put into this movie and the mistakes are due to oversights in certain areas, some of which are mentioned above. This is an honest opinion and admit it, there are nastier ones on this site.

jadzia92 I am quite happily admit being Catholic but this end of days movie simply did do it for me. The atmosphere of this film was very very dull with its characters and the pacing. There was nothing about 2012: Doomsday that made want to care about what was going on in this movie and why I should care about the characters. Much of the dialogue here gets muddled along without any sense of what the characters are trying to say. 2012: Doomsday is notable for being one of the last acting work from Cliff De Young as he has been in anything since 2010, two years after the release of 2012: Doomsday. Doomsday for me truly refers to the quality of the movie itself as it was quite a doom in not having any enjoyment out of this film.

geekgirl101 This movie feels like it was written by 2 directors who had different reasons to why the world was coming to an end and then decided to end it with just the one reason.Planet Earth is for some reason being affected by the gravitational pull from the super massive black hole in the center of the universe, resulting in spontaneous global catastrophes. These events were already prophesied by the Mayans, however despite this being a cosmic event there is a safety off button in the form of a baby being born at an altar in one of the ancient Mayan temples accompanied by God's messengers.There's much Christian dribble being spewed about that it just makes you want to cringe. The Christians are portrayed as stereotypical airheads full of smiles who act like they're high on drugs even though the world is falling apart under their feet and debris in the form of silly string is falling from the sky.Despite at the end the baby is delivered at the right place at the right time accompanied by 4 skeptic "messengers", the rapture has already taken place. Planet Earth is no longer being affected by the super massive black hole and everyone who's left behind gets to continue to live their lives minus the Christian evangelists... YAHOO!!!!!! Actually this is probably one of the best ever endings which is why I've given this movie a rating of 2 instead of 1.I don't need to say anything about the special effects as there's already plenty of venom being spewed over just how awful they are, and the same goes for the poor acting.

kenbad1010 I know why this movie which I enjoyed a lot received only a 1.8 rating and that is because most of the people who reviewed it are I'm very sorry to say ignorant atheists and so didn't like it because it was sort of a religious drama and not the action/thriller they thought it was also there was no bad language or adult situations like sex or drug taking or people killing people. I feel sorry for them and pray for their souls. You don't see air but you feel it and you breathe it so it's there right? So why have you stopped believing just because some religious documents sound untrue. What a bunch we live with. I usually do not watch anything that Asylum, has done or has it's hands on but this was a very enjoyable movie well worth a look for us believers.