![]() Directed by Brad Peyton, the film stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, and Alexandra Daddario. – Taylor gives it 3.5 Tool songs out of 5.San Andreas (2015) is a natural-disaster thriller about a search-and-rescue pilot who saves his daughter and reconciles with his ex-wife amid the chaos of the world's most destructive earthquake as it strikes the West Coast of the United States. – Howe give s San Andreas 4 shipping containers out of 5. We’ve had a few disasters on screen more recently, but none stick out in memory. TAYLOR: Disaster movie kingpin Roland Emmerich, ( 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, both terrible) hasn’t made a good movie since Independence Day. Then, like they had read my mind, lo and behold the stars and stripes drop from the sky. HOWE: I don’t know about you but I was thinking we were going to get through the movie without the patriotic montage at the end. See it on the big screen, sit through the boring talking bits. It’s a disaster movie that succeeds in its rumblings. I saw many people die in interesting, impressive ways. Still, it was the action and spectacle that was strongest in San Andreas. Sometimes it seemed almost epic, then it would remind you it isn’t. This is not to say that every stunt or effect was believable, far from it. I thought the way the filmmakers captured the moments of quaking devastation delivered unique, personal, believable perspectives. This is a film that featured a handful of things I could check off that list. TAYLOR: Part of the fun of watching a movie is seeing what you’ve never seen before. With some films, you just have to switch off and enjoy them for what they are San Andreas is that type of movie. But if you tie them all together, the movie becomes pretty good and even tense in some parts. ![]() The special effects are somewhat acceptable, and you just know how it is going to end. The acting is of class A cheesiness quality. It kept me entertained from start to finish. San Andreas is so cheesy a movie that I was grinning from ear to ear. ![]() One thing you missed off that list was a great big slab of Stilton. Despite this overused plot device and the occasional bout of bad writing, acting and acting for green screen, I’m happy to report that, should you be able to put these setbacks aside, as I did, you will find San Andreas in many ways awesome. ![]() In San Andreas we have the divorced mom and dad of a teenage daughter family unit, which carries its own obligatory B-story, filed under D, for divorce. TAYLOR: Whenever a disaster movie strikes, you generally know what you’re going to see: An ordinary group of people, perhaps a cross section of society, hopefully not too stereotyped, dealing with said disaster. We say, “It’s pretty good for a disaster movie!” Now they have to warn the nation to prepare for the worst tectonic action ever recorded, involving the entire San Andreas fault, along which our hero’s family resides. Ray (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) is a rescue chopper pilot who has his hands full with day-to-day danger when an earthquake puts his ex-wife Emma (Carla Gugino) and daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario) in more immediate peril.Ī team of Caltech scientists, led by Lawrence (Paul Giamatti), has just discovered their predictive models work, based on the last two earthquakes. Progress: North Okanagan Business Review and Forecast 2018.
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