San Andreas
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
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- Cast:
- Dwayne Johnson , Alexandra Daddario , Carla Gugino , Ioan Gruffudd , Archie Panjabi , Paul Giamatti , Hugo Johnstone-Burt
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I'll tell you why so serious
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Great movie! Nice job Dwayne Johnson and this movie had one of the best scenes of earthquakes. It is a survival thriller and is very fun and I recommend you to watch this.
I can assure you have seen this before, it isn't any different from the classic Hollywood natural disaster movies, apart for maybe the slightly better special effects, but all movies of this sort have outstanding special effects nowadays, don't they?Every single natural disaster film cliché has been taken into account when creating this, makes it look extremely cheesy and very ''american'' with The Rock, of course, being the big, invincible buff guy who saves the day, in this case his family. I mean, the special effects were pretty awesome, but it doesn't have the ''wow factor'' anymore, since we have seen so many movies similar to this there isn't anything surprising. Without surprise the plot is extremely easily predictable and linear, i mean its so predictable you will easily be able to say what's about to happen in every scene, that's if you have seen about 2-3 movies like this.Overall, it can work as a braindead entertainment movie you watch, when you are seriously bored and don't have anything else to watch as it's extremely easy to follow and you don't need to think, just let your brain drift.
Halfway through "San Andreas", I couldn't help but visualize construction workers around the globe salivating. "We have jobs forever." Send the Japanese construction guys to California; they've dealt with another "force of nature" named Godzilla for many years. These guys could have California up and running again faster than you can say sequel. With the film's $474M worldwide gross, according to IMDb, you know there is a sequel on the way: "Godzilla vs. the San Andreas Fault."
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.