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San Andreas
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Paul Giamatti, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Art Parkinson
Director: Brad Peyton
Studio: Warner Bros, Village Roadshow Pictures
Distributor: Warner Bros
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller
Rating: ★½☆☆☆☆
Review Spoilers: Low
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If you’re going to see San Andreas for the plot, character development, and chemistry between the actors/actresses… you’re going to be severely disappointed. If you’re going for completely whack, all the science you’ve ever learned out the window, CGI crank fest, and The Rock looking ripped… it’s perfect. San Andreas even approached a USC earthquake expert who gave his scientific advice to the film and none of it was used. There is absolutely no way for the San Andreas fault to reach magnitudes of 9 and no tsunami that big can be produced. San Andreas is very much like the movie 2012 with John Cusack, but The Rock makes a better action hero.
Along the way to the rescue, everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. Literally it’s like God has it out for The Rock and is just going machine gun crazy on unlimited ammo. Aside from that, the CGI is not bad. It’s actually done pretty well and I can see this being a visual treat on IMAX. It might get a bit repetitive because you can only see buildings crash, crack, and break open so much. At least 2012 had all the natural disasters, here you only get earthquakes.
Final Thoughts: Bored this weekend and want to see absolute destruction? Bingo! You’ve found your movie. Go with friends and just watch buildings being blown up, torn apart, and the earth just ripping it up. The cast hold the movie together for glimmers when there isn’t destruction on screen enough to not make you bored.
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