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Title: San Andreas (2015)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Dwayne Johnson | ... | Raymond Gaines | |
| Carla Gugino | ... | Emma Gaines | |
| Alexandra Daddario | ... | Blake Gaines | |
| Ioan Gruffudd | ... | Daniel Riddick | |
| Archie Panjabi | ... | Serena Johnson | |
| Paul Giamatti | ... | Dr. Lawrence Hayes | |
| Hugo Johnstone-Burt | ... | Ben Taylor | |
| Art Parkinson | ... | Ollie Taylor | |
| Will Yun Lee | ... | Dr. Kim Park | |
| Kylie Minogue | ... | Susan Riddick | |
| Colton Haynes | ... | Joby O'Leary | |
| Todd Williams | ... | Marcus | |
| Matt Gerald | ... | Harrison | |
| Alec Utgoff | ... | Alexi | |
| Marissa Neitling | ... | Phoebe | |
In San Andreas, California is experiencing a statewide earthquake that goes on record as easily the biggest earthquake in history. Dwayne Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a helicopter rescue pilot for the Los Angeles Fire Department, who is trying to find his daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario), who is in San Francisco amid-st the chaos. Ray's estranged wife, Emma, is forced to turn to Ray for help, as he is her last resort. Together they journey to save their daughter. Written by ahmetkozan
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If you understand what a disaster movie is about and how it works you will go and have a nice experience just as I did, certainly superior to the "2012" or "Day After Tomorrow" dullness.
The usual cheesiness in disaster movie is there, the characters are so stereotypical it's hardly believable and worst of all it commits the usual, stupid mistake of having characters make it out of a situation just in time before everything collapses. This mistakes really annoys me firstly because it repeats itself a dozen times in the film but most of all because it's worthless: it does not add stakes or tension, they would be exactly the same, but except for maybe twice in the film situations get resolved just in time and the uselessness of it really annoyed me. The film tries too hard to give it's characters depth and barely succeeds in it. I cannot deny I was rooting for them, that maybe being due to the fact that the actors involved are honestly all doing a good enough job, but the fact that it tries to achieve character empathy through clichés that have been present in cinema since the beginning of time is ridiculous.
That being said, it does deliver the goods of a disaster movie and delivers them much more competently than the recent disaster films we have seen on the big screen. With the exception of the finale where things are unnecessarily blown up to eleven, there isn't exaggeration. The set pieces are for the major part breath-taking and original enough. I counted actually two times where my mouth totally dropped in genuine amazement. I was riveted by many scenes and this is probably due to the fact that the director never overuses CGI. It is used in the perfect dose, there is enough practicality involved and the fact that the set pieces aren't always the biggest most blown up ones made it better, it gave the film more stakes. Moreover there is a great use of long takes in certain parts of the film, one in particular is very long and threw me right into the action like no other disaster movie ever had done before.
If you know what you are in for you will have a good time and you will be given back your money's worth, you won't want to be re-watching this movie anytime, but that is perfectly fine and fits the film in what it is trying to achieve.