Yes, I saw the movie 2012. In fact, I was one of those attending the movie's global premiere here.

Don't worry. You can still read on, and I assure you I won't divulge the movie's ending: whether the world will be destoyed, and humanity vanishing, in 2012.

In other words, your curiosity and fun of seeing the movie will not be marred to the least, I swear.

However, if you are not that kind of people keen on doomsday or disaster movies, then you don't have to queue up for a ticket just because I have written about the movie.

I'm only telling you how I felt seeing the movie.

If you are a childish boy with the trait of a terminator (or remain very much so even at middle age), then 2012 should satisfy you tremendously.

The whole world is completely crushed in slightly more than two hours, like an hyperactive child storming a toy store, tearing apart the smaller toys, and tramping on the larger ones.

Hard to imagine what will befall our planet if it falls into the hands of an hyperactive child!

With the closing in of the Mayan predictions, the Earth is like being placed in a microwave oven and cooked under intense heat. The sky is churning, the ground shaking, the crust torn apart and all objects on its face falling into the crevice.

The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco comes tumbling down like the suspension bridge in Kampar, Perak. The Empire State Building, like a piece of domino, is brought down, followed by the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, the Big Ben in London, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris...

All the world's most celebrated landmarks, you name them, can be brought down before your eyes in the split of a second.

And then, the Earth turns into a fireball, with molten lava spreading from Hawaii all the way to Japan.

Next we have the super tsunami, with seawater inundating Washington DC and the President calmly accepting his doom, as the tsunami keeps roaring its way to the Himalayas!

Unlike previous disaster movies, governments have not denied the impending calamity this time round, but have instead made preparations beforehand.

Nations show the great spirit of unity and have worked together to build an enormous Noah's Ark.

This engineering feat has been awarded to China in view of its meteoric rise as an economic powerhouse.

I have reasons to believe that the Chinese authorities will not ban this movie, and hundreds of millions of Chinese movie-goers will be more than willing to line up for their tickets.

But, as the Noah's Ark has been completed, who are qualified to take shelter in it?

Although the movie upholds the philosophy that only the fittest should survive, and only the cream of the global society should be allowed onboard, due to the massive construction cost involved, private sector financing has to be sought, and only billionaires who can come out with 100 million euros can get their passes.

Long live capitalism! You only have yourself to blame for being penniless.

Frankly speaking, the movie failed to give me some additional thoughts on the Doomsday theory, but if you have gone to the movie for its exciting and awe-inspiring scenes, then it is worth every single cent of your money. (By TAY TIAN YAN/Translated by DOMINIC LOH/Sin Chew Daily)