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Metascore®49 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    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. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    The visual effects are pretty sensational, delivering the cutting-edge CGI goods auds want and expect. It will be hard to watch "Earthquake'' ever again after this one. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    God forgive me, but I enjoyed the nerve-racking silliness of this newest, loudest exercise in destruction. Read full review

  • 70
    Time | Richard Corliss

    Any sentient viewer will be able to predict every lumpy twist of this ludicrous, fitfully enjoyable movie. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice | Chuck Wilson

    The two-hour-and-40-minute 2012 is overstuffed with special-effects, but the Curtis clan's mad dash out of town is the closest the movie gets to actually being fun. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The movie is an undeniable visual spectacle, but just as unequivocally a cheesy, ridiculous story. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    As far as the new disaster film 2012 is concerned, the world will end with both a bang and a whimper, the bang of undeniably impressive special effects and the whimper of inept writing and characterization. You pays your money, you takes your chances. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    Despite the frenetic action scenes, the movie sags, done in by multiple story lines that undercut one another and by the heaviness of its conceit. Read full review

  • 38
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    Perhaps the strangest thing about 2012 is that the bad parts of the film are among the most enjoyable, because they're so over-the-top ridiculous that it's impossible not to break out laughing. Read full review

  • 25
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith Phipps

    2012 is ultimately only about finding new ways to topple monoliths. Only they don’t feel that new. Read full review

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