We Were Warned.
| Cast |
John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover, Liam James |
| Director |
Roland Emmerich |
| Screenplay | Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser |
| Music | Harald Kloser, Thomas Wanker |
| Cinematography | Dean Semler |
| Editing | David Brenner, Peter S. Elliot |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2009 |
| Produced by | Columbia Pictrures, Centropolis Entertainment, Farewell Productions, The Mark Gordon Company |
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| Genre | Action |
| Language | Some |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Strongish |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Catastrophe movie, strong tension and (natural) menace. |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith  It's doom with a view of note | 5 |  |
| Die Burger François Bloemhof | 5 | |
| Cape Times Kenneth Turnan Special effects astound | 10 |  |
| Box Office Pete Hammond Cashing in (big!) on the apocalypse | 8 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert This is fun. 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. | 18 |  |
| eye Weekly Adam Nayman 2012 features earthquakes, towering infernos, crumbling airports and upside-down cruise ships: in other words, it’s pure ’70s-event-movie nostalgia, just like all of Roland Emmerich’s other ensemble apocalyptos. | 5 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Just the noise and cheeseball pyrotechnics that Hollywood regularly substitutes for intelligence and wit. Welcome to 2009. | 5 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs Yes, the film delivers on the effects front and those who enjoy such visual mayhem might like what's offered. It's just too bad that the best of that occurs early in the film and that you'll have to sit through a plethora of boring and clichéd drama before the next batch erupts. | 6 | |
| Metacritic.com 34 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 202 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Roland Emmerich's 2012 provides plenty of visual thrills, but lacks a strong enough script to support its massive scope and inflated length. | 7 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 30517 Netizens Heavy and absurd. | 13 |  |
Average .. 43% | 9 | |