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Final Wave Of The Gigantic Tsunami | 2012
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- Published on Jul 11, 2025
- Adrian (Chiwetel Ejiofor) arrives at the Ark, but receives a call from Satnam… | Buy or rent 2012 here: amzo.in/movie/...
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
© Sony Pictures
Very touching and loyal from the indian professor to call his friend not for blaming on the fact that he and his family weren't pick up, but to allert him on a new wave coming and to say goodbye. RESPECT.
This is far from Reality about Indian-Indians (not American- Indians) bro. You don't know us Indians. We Complain a lot...😂😂😂 We still hold Grudges against WHITE MEN. and we are secretly Huge @$$ Rasists.😂 And yes Indians Hate MUSLIMS Christians and Tribal Minorities...😂😂😂 Man we are hard to understand.....
mobile networks are pretty robust
Yet I still wonder why didn’t he call him sooner to ask why the airlift hasn’t come
He called to say how he misses dirty streets of Delhi and curry.. Oh, blame me😂😂😂
@@josephmeza8835pretty sure he tried to call there’s one scene but he ignores the call
Satnam's family scene lives rent free in my mind, it's so sad. He did so much to save others, and when it came for him to be saved, he was just one of the forgotten masses. That part makes it super realistic, and he and his family quietly facing death with dignity is very human.
That was the scene that traumatised me as a kid
Every single person on those arks owes Satnam their lives; if he hadn't called Adrian and warned him about the tidal wave, the arks would have been caught unprepared, and it's very likely that no one would have survived the resulting impact. So when you think about it, Satnam ended up saving the human race from extinction!
Saved them twice.
Akshit's & pooja's taking one for the team, how noble of them to finally make a positive contribution to the human race for once
@@sirgs5662They did lots of good things for the human race but centuries of interracial marriages diluted the genes that made them great contributors in the first place
what i dont get is why not close the doors and stay in the mountain
TWICE! 🥺
This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. Satnam not getting picked up was hearbreaking. And when Helmsley says Satnam didn't get picked up and the other guy says "What?" in just pure shock. And then that moment when the man turns to check out the coutdown clock, that is a great visual! The way he turns to the camera and then walks forward is such a good cinema moment.
Yes! Good thematic filmmaking is getting rarer nowadays.
Always decent people who get screwed. The one's who do their best and have humility get glossed over. When Adrian talks about getting 10 people in his cabin, it sorta reminds me of the scene when Schindler takes off his party badge and says that could have equalled more lives. Sometimes less really is more
@@nopublicbathroom no it isnt. youre just not looking for it.
I'd honestly watch a TV series called "2013" in how they rebuild civilization after that.
@@sirsaint88 - Never heard of it, but I'll look for it! Sounds interesting.
5:52 that part of the father and son praying breaks my heart....
Same here 💔
I’m crying hard😢😢😢😭😭😭😭💔
Yeah but its a movie. None of it actually happened
@@jaysmiles2or so you think.....
@@I_love_Septa_Trains It just a movie it did not happen hahahahaha cry baby
7:08 is an incredible moment of building up serious implications of trouble from the composers. Great film score writing!
I honestly loved this movie, thank you RUclips for putting it out for free.
One of my favorites
What’s the movie name
I love how satnam decided to call his friend and tell him his last goodbyes instead of complaining how he didn’t get picked up
True Homie never held it against him for it
He knew they only knew about the first wave but not the second so he called him to warn him about it.
Poor Satnam. Also, the Queen and her precious Corgis. Damn it.
As a lot of things are unrealistic in this movie the actors actually did a great job surprisingly. Imagine hearing your friend and his family along with hundreds of men, women, and children screaming in their last moments I'd have nothing but rage
Its all fun and games until they need the workers they left behind to repair the Arks.
the workers got in when all the people tried to get on the arks, you could see workers in the crowd
Everyone wants to be a captain of industry, but forgets that someone needs to scrub the toilets - Bioshock
TBF they definitely didn't intend for the arks to be long-term on their own anyway since you see that they are immediately heading towards an island at the end of the movie but still.
Somebody is going to have to be willing to build any new infrastructure afterwards
All the billionaires will certainly be willing to put in the work to survive and rebuild I’m sure! After all their work ethic is billions of times greater than the average person. They’re definitely not useless leeches or anything like that
That, and then they fail to realize they don't have the necessary manpower and qualified people to build new buildings for a new civilization. That's the problem with prioritizing the rich, very few of them are capable of actually doing some of the most important jobs despite the fact they have the money for that type of knowledge.
It’s ominous, scary and dramatic to see a mountain-sized tsunami like that.
That’s not any mountain it’s mount everest
@@TIMMEH41969 I'm not talking about mountains. I'm talking about the tsunami the size of a mountain.
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@@MassimoCalderaro-u8hThey were saying that is Mount Everest (The highest mountain on Planet Earth) meaning that the wave is higher then all of mountains on the planet. They were agreeing with you that it is ominous it is so large.
@@theorangeturtle3683 I'm just saying that end-of-the-world-looking tsunami looks mountain-sized.
That "Goodbye my Friend" hits so hard every time
The fact that the bedrooms/rooms could fit more than 2 or so people is mindblowing to me. Ik that it would be crowded and what not, but you should want to invite the workers and other people of professions like doctors, engineers, farmers, scientists, etc onto the ship to further “ensure the continuity of your species”. Like make it make sense people 🤣
Brave of you to assume that the leaders of the world and the rich fucks give a rats ass about our species. They just want to save their asses. The smart people they take are simply there to keep tech and science going for their benefit.
Why not the engineers and workers who built the ark?
@@Thethirdshingoji that’s what I said. I said “invite the workers and…”
@@kaitlyns9756 ok
I mean the physical space isn't the bottle neck. The real bottle neck is the capacity for long term food requirements.
It's both unnecessarily cruel and outright dangerous to the success of the mission to save more people than you can feed from the initial destruction.
If you can house and feed X number of people but you save 2X people then you end up with a struggle for resources that leaves a lot less than just 1 X alive.
It’s actually fcked that Satnam was left behind but truthfully that’s exactly what would happen in a real life situation. The little people will be left behind while the rich and the nepo babies will live
If it wasn't for Satnam everyone would be dead
I agree, finally seeing a comment talking the reality of an event like this, it's sad as shit but NO DOUBT that the people picked up would just be the rich
Correct but what’s crazy in real situation some of them would fall too
You'd think the dude who discovered what was coming would have been given VIP treatment
and when it's all over, they will argue who should now take the role of the workers.
I read that it wasn't a tsunami it was an entire ocean being displaced ....thats absolutely 😳😳😳
Pretty much yeah, the whole continental plates were collapsing
Wisconsin, USA, has become the South Pole, and pilot Sasha mentioned that the entirety of Eurasia has moved 2,000 km. We must remap the world.
0:53 The fact that the wave is so high that it pushes the clouds is incredibly terrifying.
my toxic trait is thinking i could swim and survive that
😂😂same🤦♂️😂😂
All you really need is a plank of wood and you could surf that thing
You fool
I got floaties so I can make it
Nah, I'd swim
5:10 It's NOT ABOUT THAT. You might have the room but you don't have the life support systems for more people. FOOD, WATER, WASTE.
4:53 wow I never got to reply this scene to notice that the Wave was taller than the clouds!!!!
Holy moly……
This was definitely one of the movies within this lifetime!
Amazing movie, I watch it at least twice a year. ❤
This movie is very sad and scary in many ways. I was definitly traumatized by it when I was younger.
For some reason, I found this movie to be a comedy as well.
I think what you meant to say is corny and goofy. Nothing about this film is scary or sad.
@@hunterspride18 When you see how people all over the world are trying to survive this extinction event and how everything you have ever cared about means nothing anymore that is very sad and horrific. And yeah ofc it has some comedy moments but the movie takes itself serious.
It’s fake, a flood of this magnitude isn’t possible
@@hunterspride18it was corny but not goofy
Most people only think survival in a situation like this.... But I wonder..... What happened to those that survive? Imagine the world that's left behind.... Is it a world you would WANT to live in?
The earth would eventually heal and fix itself again and yes those people would be pretty miserable. But their kids, and those kids having kids and so on and so on. Would have a good life and have a chance at life knowing that their ancestors did everything they could to survive this so the human race could exist and prevail
Can someone answer me. How can a 1500m wave even reach the base of Mount Everest which itself is around 5000m in height?
the wave is being pushed inland. if the elevation goes up the water goes up, as long as it has enough energy to get there.
think of it like rolling a ball up a hill. the hill is taller than the ball, but the ball goes up for a bit (water comes in) until it runs out of energy and then rolls back down (water recedes).
@@kevinfan8477 Nicely explained👍
And the idea that as the water is being pushed upbthe co tonent is shifting beneath it and sinking down. The whole reason the wave came in at all is the land was collapsing. Much like the California coast sank and then literally flipped over as the mantle beneath it collapsed. In the end of the movie the o ly land remaining above the waterline was the horn of Africa, as it had been shoved up in displacement by the sinking of the surrounding continental shelf.
@@kevinfan8477 I don't think that 1500 m. wave could overlap Mt. Everest with 8848 m. high, even with her abnormal energy.
@@lukeallan6527 Then shouldn't Australia have been pushed up as well since Africa and Australia are in the middle of their respective plates
5:41 idc what anyone says about this movie , but moments like these , is what makes this movie pretty sad :,( enjoyed this movie when it came out enjoy it still !!
those who used wealth and political power to get on board would most likely become the lowest ranks after the disaster has passed. Their money and power will mean nothing in a world that no longer has an economy or government and needs to be rebuilt from scratch. I'd imagine the armed forces will take control (and won't stay loyal to the people who were willing to selfishly sacrifice those deemed beneath them) and prioritize those who will actually aid in post-apocalyptic survival.
1:36 Gotta love the Queen. Rest in peace, Your Majesty.
"Goodbye my friend......................." Also creepy smile on that captain given the circumstances of their present situation.
This movie and Deep Impact are two disaster movies that always stuck with me.
I miss this era of cinema.
I wonder why is it over. What has changed so much?
Heartbreaking. Even though it's just an apocalypse sci fi movie, this still reminds me of all those real life historical incidents where we left loved ones and friends behind to their deaths. (The USA's abrupt departure from certain allied nations comes to mind). 😭
Fuck nato
Afghanistan is not an allied nation
@@sarmaxsamit’s people are innocent
@@sarmaxsam they were before the Taliban took over, they were literally labeled as "major non-nato ally"
Gonna tell my kids I survived all this and was inside the arcs
I really can't hate Carl here. The scientists gave him bad data about the timeline at every possible step of the way leading up to this. Every last one.
They had the literally calander!!! 😂😅😂
"Your predictions haven't panned you *doctor*"
-a guy who has done nothing but complain the entire movie
With everything happening so fast, there wasn't a whole lot of time to get all of the ticket holders for the arks. Especially with the Earth Crust Displacement happening.
*a guy who actually coordinated the project to get it done.
He was the most rational person in this situation. Of course it would be nice to save every last person but it just wouldn't have worked. He was the ideal person to coordinate this project, since he would not let his emotions get all tangled up in every decision like Dr. Helmsley.
@@lukask.3686most rational isn’t the most effective person/leader either.
It’s amazing how far an “I’m sorry, I understand, but XYZ” will take you over what this guy says and does.
Actually it is Helmsley that complained all movie. His compassion makes him seem nice, but in a situation like this, he would've lost a whole lot more lives due to his good yet impractical intentions. Anheuser is operating with a rational mind, which is what you'd need here. Nobody was being evil in this movie. It was all too chaotic to rescue everyone. Anheuser is the right guy to have for this
Sorry to say in ds Movie my Indian Brother n hs family were betrayed.....
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Bharath Mata ki Jai......
Jai javan jai kisan.........
India shit
Satnam is a hero, his selfless act saved so many lives. This scene broke my heart.
love how its mostly rich people like whos going rebuild rich people to greedy and selfish to rebuild and will cause the mass extinction of human kind and animal life
They literally funded the arks creation 😂 without them there wouldn’t even be an ark
@@MrJakmattAnd it turns out the Arks were unecessary - cruise ships and the entirety of the cape of Africa (ans large portions of the African continent as a whole) managed to survive the apocalypse.
@@pokemonfanmario7694 Was it canon? or alternate scene? i though that scene was a deleted scene
@@jeze2432 It was, I believe, an extended scene. I remember seeing it on the DVD, I don't think it breaks canon (it technically would've happened after the very last scene.)
@MrJakmatt
Yeah and what useful skills do those rich people have besides sitting on their asses all day? The chaos stops and now what? You really think a Saudi prince or a tech billionaire is going to know the first thing about farming, medical care, construction? And forget doing all of that with modern technology, they'll have to improvise using anything in their surroundings. They won't last a month.
The part about "selling tickets" infuriates me.
Were this end-of-days scenario to actually take place, those people would serve ZERO purpose in the reconstruction except as parasites just as they are now. It would be morally correct to say "Thank you for your money, but we are not honoring those tickets."
So you think that kind of dishonor right off the bat is conducive to rebuilding society?
@@pettypractice7872 Honor?
You're going to speak of honor when talking of people whose extravagant wealth hinges on their ability to rent-seek and practice usury on people who actually do the labor? Seriously?
@@Conan_the_Based Found the moron.
You forgot "oligarch" on your list of meaningless buzzwords to use.
I so freaking wish they had a short series on the Aftermath of 2012. Them on the ark then coming out onto land and seeing how they rebuild. I don’t know.
They were gonna make a TV series about that, but it got cancelled before it was even made due to budget reasons. The series would've been titled, "2013".
@@daniboy4153 That would be awesome to have.
Wow, idk if it’s because I’m a bit older now since watching this back in 2012 but these scenes hit you a bit differently!
At the time this movie was released (2009), I thought that Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip would have stayed behind and sent William and Harry instead to ensure the continuation of the bloodline. I still get pissed that Satnam and his family didn't get picked up!
I’m assuming William and Harry were there too, just not shown. Also irl if this happened I think you’d be right that Elizabeth would stay behind and send William and his children instead.
The corgis and her are more impt than her children it seems
probably in the real life, this is a movie lol
@@lovecraftianwalrus4490 You are right, in 2012 Elizabeth was already 86, and she was already waiting for her end, in real life, or she would stay and command the youngest royals, or they would also take her because of her historical weight and as a person.
It always blew my mind that they saved the rich, who do they think is going to do the manual labor going forward when all the workforce is gone.
Who do you think funded the building of the arks in the first place???
@@truckercowboyed2638AMEN TO THAT Bro
@@truckercowboyed2638 I was talking about the after though, sure they paid, but now what do they expect? Most of them probably don't have any skills that would be useful in rebuilding society.
@@truckercowboyed2638okay they are saved so who is gonna do the labour work to rebuild civilisation?
The hardest moment is to watch in your child's face knowing that the end is coming and you're not able to save him/her, no matter what.
So it was the monks job to ring the bell if a giant tsunami roared across the Himalayas?
I think it was more of a goodbye but that's what i always assumed
I think he used it as a way to alert the other monks of imminent danger, a futile, but honourable final act.
I know you're trying to be funny but in case you weren't: the job is to "raise the alarm" whenever anything warrants it, which a tsunami would of course fall into that category.
@@ALBINO1D well he warned them. Of course I'm being funny. It's a cool scene but what does he think people are going to do? This movie was garbage but I thought this was the only scene in the movie that was salvageable.
It was a death bell for humanity.
1:40 Queen Elizabeth II survives. 🥲
This actually happened in 1971. I was on Arc 4. I'm sorry we couldn't / didn't tell you before. We wanted to repopulate earth without subjecting you to the trauma, the memories.
Sad movie remanid me the elite of the n.w.o
6:55 Best shot in the entire movie.
Good action movie I thought. I mean it's not like peak cinema but is good for an enjoyable afternoon watch every couple years.
100%, it’s silly, but it’s a laugh.
So in this movie the baddies live and the goodies die, is that correct?
I'm doomed, as are my family, we have no special skills to offer the world. But i'd rather be with them anyway
It's not special skills that would save you it's money and connections
I love the bit where they seen the queen in her purple dress and hat and her dogs!!! 😂😂😂
The writer of this movie obviously didn't know very much about the Queen. If this happened, she would have stayed behind with the rest of us.
Oh sweetie… no she wouldn’t 😂
@@jaasonmilleroh sweetie the princes served in the war for your country. Which I doubt you did
@jaasonmiller She absolutely would have and Philip too. She would have made sure her grandchildren were saved, but just based on her age she wouldn't have opted for survival when basically the entire population of her country was going to die. She took her role very seriously and she would have gone down with the ship. Having said that, most people over a certain age would do the same.
Totally! She told me the same thing.
That thief lady would have left you guys 😂😂😂
Can’t believe we survive that.
The fact that they let queen Elizabeth on knowing well that she is like in her 80s at the time, and also let her bring her corgis is just crazy
Probably one of the most touching moments in the movie. Was the man and his wife with their child?Knowing they were going to die
"You can fit 10 people in here"
Conveniently ignores the need for food, water, medicine and the inevitable Lord of the Flies moment when they realize there's nothing left. You can't just save people you have to be able to take care of them
Exactly
I like this movie because a lot of things, most things, are going wrong, in the crisis
Plenty of people are making mistakes, others are selfish, others play high and mighty
That's usually how stuff goes down. The screenplay is very realistic.
The executive might seem heartless, but he´s actually only pragmatic, as cruel as it sounds. Had they not sold tickets, no one would have survived, because the arks wouldn´t have been able to be built.
Strange how money mattered in the end anyway
Amen
In reality one yearly us defense budget wouldve covered the cost of all these arks and then some.
I don't think you care of money when your about to die
He was heartless
Love Dr Charles
like many people who watched 2012, i am so annoyed by the fact that essential people like scientists, engineers, hell even carpenters and plumbers, were never considered for the Arks. All the seats were given to old rich people and their families. Who's gonna rebuild the world after the waters recede and they have to leave the Arks? All the people that had the qualifications to do it are dead.
Being erased by the natural disasters here seems a lot better than trying to subsist in a society composed almost in is entirety by military, politicians and rich folks. Great sacrifices would need to be made for society to prosper afterwards.... and none of them will want to shed their sweat and blood for that, that is for sure.
5:00 the tsunami is as high as the clouds😶
This movie was made to let us know that we will never be saved if this were to ever happen.
if satnam was picked up, it may have been too late for people to know of the Eastern Tsunami, so in a way it was good that he was left behind.
I think the most surprising part of the movie now is that Cell Phone communications were still up.
with a mass of water this size are they drowning or just getting crushed straight away from debris and/or pressure?
At least it's quick
It's crushed, since water is so heavy, your bones immediately crush and your body turns into a pancake, literally
Crushed
Adjust the countdown:
> do calculations
> Write an additional script that slowly adjusts the countdown to the new result
7:07 I understand that the Government in this movie isn’t good at calculations, but come on!
How did you not see that another wave was going to hit way earlier than the first wave?!
i saw a comment that explained why the wave is as high as it is (i can’t remember i’m detail ) but essentially it’s not a wave but an entire ocean that’s been moved
The interesting question is, who is in the better place in the end. The people who made their peace and died, or the "survivors" struggling for survival with the little of what's left of a habitable world on board an iron coffin? Not an easy answer...
5:50 The old man with the hat. Was he a grandfather or the president of India? It's been a long since i saw the movie.
It always pissed me off how Satnam and his family weren't included on the arks, even though he's the reason they're even being saved right now.
Every time i watch this movie i get goosebumps
5:26 when he said “what” 😢😢😢
I watched this when I was a kid and it traumatised me
I’m terrified of the ocean
If you're scares of unrealistic wave proportions u got other problems
@@darthkillerhog oh I got plenty of problems. But a big ass wall of water just ready to sink you. Whew I’m not ready
@@saintbernard2786 Again tho that's completely u realistic and no amount of water on this planet will ever reach the height of the Himalayans let alone the East coast of the U.S.
@@darthkillerhog you too deep for me
@darthkillerhog Actually mega tsunamis like that can happen and has actually happened Lituya Bay, Alaska 1958. The tsunami was over 1700ft and is the largest tsunami ever recorded which was caused my 7.7 earthquake.
QUICK! Pull out the camera. CAMERAMEN NEVER DIE!
Anheuser was there but where was Busch?
Há um erro no mesmo Filme antes dessa cena foi dito que todas as Comunicações foram interrompidas então com Satnam conseguiu ligar para seu amigo Adrian.
This is Avatar the Last Air Bender, but the Fire Nation are the good guys while Water and Earth decided to go rogue
Ummm there was a scene where a volcano devoured a whole ass city and tornado that swept half of LA so none of the nations are a saint here
@@HouzaRahouzaLavabending is actually a kind of Earthbending, not Firebending
The whole scene is a very accurate depiction of bureaucracy and the government, let the rich be saved and all the average people who have lives, built the ark, and forsaw the incoming crisis die.
It's unfortunate but true
Movie should’ve been called the rich wipe out the poor lol
Then it wouldn't be a work of fiction
We Indians can relate to Santnam's scene. We will die in the same way, if anything like this happens.
Lol nothing a tsunami of that size is pretty impossible it's just a movie India is a big nation
@@ashajacob8362 You fail to understand.
No matter how big any nation is (in GDP, population, land area, technology) its ability to absorb the catastrophic events of that scale are close to nil. If the catastrophe of a scale of this movie (2012) happened you would have another extinction event and if any life would survive that there would be no trace of human civilisation not to mention a specific country.
But we do not need an extinction event - India is already experiencing record temperatures and due to the fact that this and coming generation will not do anything serious about climate change at the break of this century life on the subcontinent will be much more difficult and conditions harsher. Will there be an Indian nation when people start migrating en masse - or will some of the less affected (northern provincies) decide against letting them in (I can easily see people decrying 'Muslim invasion' or 'Hindu invasion') ? I will not see it - I am too old.
It is not only about India - but just as an example.
@@buttercup9884You didnt need to write all that, he's not going to listen
The project manager or acting head of state ia the good guy; you guys must understand. He got the project done.
but you still aint going on the ark
and whats dr charles doing here
Nows that's what I call a bunker ....... !!!!!
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That tsunami reminds me of when your guys moms do a cannon ball in the pool
4:05 ‘looks to me like their chequebooks got them on board’- I know this is a movie but she should spare the moral lecture, she is only there because she is the President’s daughter
2012 Tsunami India but with The Sorcerer And The White Snake 2011 OST Promise make it 5:48
Never forget the loss … carry the burden for is our humanity that keeps us going . History is our book of bible
The queen would not have left her people.
that isnt just a tsunami, is the entire ocean moving and replacing the land
4:58 What could have caused such a tsunami?
What the movie. It tells you
The entirety of the ocean shifting around the world. I know, it's crazy.
Hmmm! Indeed - very interesting. Ark 3 was damaged beyond repair.
How ever flawed the Idea of an ark is, makers of this one didn't get it at all. Most on board would hardly be able to take care of themselves. The one's who could build a World, were let go.
This movie is symbolic of what's coming. It will be an economic deluge, and the government and the elite will survive it with their lives intact. Everyone else will be wiped out and must conform to what will rise.
So true! Predictive programming basically the New World Order
1:39 our Queen actor just died
It’s mean to put these talented people in this movie.
I never want to not be able to protect my kids 😢 so sad