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Year:	2009
Country of origin:	USA
Director:	Roland Emmerich
Genre:	Disaster movie epicness
Starring:	John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton
Rating:	3/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/
Tagline:	Who will be left behind?
Favourite line:	"I have goosebumps, people."

As the Mayan calendar ticks down day by day, Roland 'Independence Day' Emmerich felt the time was ripe for him to make a disaster movie based on the impending doom we face as a race.
See, he's never made a disaster movie before, his previous offerings being the sci-fi guff Independence Day, creature feature Godzilla, beefcake tussling in Universal Soldier and.....oh hang on, wait just one flinking flanking second....impending disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow.
So, what would draw a man of such copious and undeniable talent back to the same subject matter once more?
Who the Christ knows.

The plot:
Solar flares are happening.
They're really big.
The Earth's crust is destabilising.
Massive earthquakes are occurring.
And tsunami's.
And winds so gusty they can whip your skegs off from beneath your very trousers. Cities crumble into the ocean.
Aeroplanes wend their way between falling skyscrapers like the ultimate level of Sega's Afterburner.

And it's all such a load of absolute cock it's hard not to be taken along for the ride.
At every level, this is diabolical, yet still it entertained, still it kept me watching.
Where loud explosions and fraught voices usually leave me cowering in the corner, flashbacks to a terrifying childhood manifesting themselves in adult life, here they merely entertained.
Look, I know it's twaddle, I know it should be hateful.
But I bloody well enjoyed it.
So fuck right off.