San Andreas (2015)

That was an excellent one.

Excellent adaptation.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's entertaining and there is good spectacle but there are far too many miraculous escapes and a far-fetched premise from overexplanation. Any tension achieved crumbles with too many collapsing buildings. The Brits are made predictably weak and overly wholesome to accentuate American heroics.

This movie is pretty well made, and directed. I think the actors do a really good job at portraying the fear and devastation that would occur if a major disaster event like this occurred. This movie isn't very scientifically accurate. They get the basic understanding of tectonic plate movement and earthquakes, but they have minor factual errors occurring consistently throughout the film. There's also the extremely unrealistic situations that are played off as Hollywood stunts, like riding through the wave of a tsunami, that are completely scientifically inaccurate. If you can get past the educational faults, it's worth a watch!

The director must have gone to some length to find a giant Maori bodybuilding martial arts expert actor who can fly a helicoper, drive a car, fly an airoplane, steer a boat, jump parachute, hold his breath for a minut while swimming and tearing buildings apart but who can't act.

This film has the rock in it which is always a big appeal for me so I decided to see San Andreas and this film isn't particularly good. The premise of this film sees a rescue helicopter pilot attempt to find his ex wife and daughter in the midst of the worst earthquakes in history. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson plays the lead in this film and he is really good in this film. He plays the everyday parent trying to save his kid really well and he also has the charisma to give himself some much needed personality. The same cannot be said for the supporting cast, Carla gugino plays his ex wife in this film and I just never really bought there relationship in this film so it made it really hard for me to care about her character. Alexandra daddaro plays there daughter in this film and I found her performance to be really over the top and poorly written. I also found it pretty hard to care about her character even though the film goes out of its way to really try to make you. Paul giamatti is in this film as an expert of earthquakes and he gives a really over the top performance. There are times in this film when you can tell that he is trying to give a decent performance but then the script comes in and his dialogue creates a really ridiculous character. Everybody else in this film is really cheesy and over the top and it makes it hard to care about anybody other then The Rock. The story of the film is disaster movie generic as they come, there are some decent personal moments that make you care about The Rock which is key to caring in this film. But as mentioned before the plot for this movie is as generic as possible and there are just too many moments that are just sigh worthy. The script as also mentioned before is pretty terrible filled with cheesy ridiculous dialogue that really hurts everybody involved and the film as a whole. The style of the film is really what we come to see this film for and I will admit there are some really cool disaster action set pieces in this film that will definitely entertain. However some of the effects didn't feel fully finished, especially at the beginning of the film there are some pretty bad effects that make this film feel incredibly unrealistic. Overall this film isn't really worth watching at all unless you like disaster movies for what they really are, films to turn your mind off but have no depth.