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Article: Partying to destruction.(Sport)(Movie review)
- Article from:
- The Journal (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2009
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CANCEL the London Summer Olympic Games! Our time on the third rock from the sun will come to a dramatic end on December 21, 2012, when planets align as decreed by the Mayan calendar. Thus no one is going to care a jot about whether our stadia are finished on time, so let's channel all that money into endless parties and go out with a bang.
That's what director Roland Emmerich does in his gloriously overblown and knowingly trashy disaster epic.
Having previously destroyed all the major cities during an alien invasion (Independence Day) and plunged the globe ...