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Director:
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Stars:
Dwayne Johnson,
Kevin Hart,
Danielle Nicolet
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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
Producer Beau Flynn came out to Los Angeles from New York at the end of 1993 with a dream to tell stories and make movies. Three weeks later, the Northridge Earthquake happened. "Like Dwayne Johnson, I'm from Miami. I'm very familiar with hurricanes, but we do get a notice when a hurricane is coming," said Flynn. "Unfortunately, you don't with an earthquake. Northridge was a very scary, sobering experience. I just felt very small, very humble, and really grateful in terms of how things can change so quickly. I had incredible respect for that." Flynn always wanted to tell a story about a family persevering. After that earthquake, he called his mom and said, "I'm moving back to New York," and she said, "Why don't you settle down?" He thought that was incredible advice, and he's never regretted that he did. "I really wanted to tell a story about the myths of Mother Nature and how these things do happen globally, about people coming together as a community, and family reuniting, staying together, persevering and fighting through this. That's really how this has been percolating for the last 20 years." See more »
Goofs
When Blake and Daniel land at the airport in Oakland, two factual errors appear. First, "Oakland Municipal Airport" no longer exists - it is Oakland International Airport. Second, the view of the airport actually features the old control tower at San Francisco International Airport, on the other side of San Francisco Bay. See more »
Quotes
Ollie Taylor:
[watching his brother, Ben make out with Blake following a rescue]
Mum's going to love her
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Crazy Credits
The end credits scroll with a bend at the top and bottom of the screen, as though they are on a rotating seismograph drum. Seismic lines, increasing in intensity, can be seen on the left side of the frame. See more »
It will be impossible to chase after logic and sense once the Earth ruptures open in SAN ANDREAS. This doesn't mean there's plenty to find, because the truth is, there's barely any, but SAN ANDREAS doesn't really need to be logical for it to be able to deliver its sense-juddering capacity. The film works with eye-popping visuals alone, and this is why the film, amidst of all its shortcomings, is still worth seeing.
SAN ANDREAS is exactly the film you would expect to see from a big-budgeted disaster movie. It teems with ground-cracking quakes, earth shattering explosions, and gigantic earth-wiping tsunamis. Through these visual tactics, the movie keeps the audience's attention glued on screen, that it would be impossible to ponder whether what's happening is still logical or not. This makes assessing the performance of the actors not an easy job, and I'm not saying it's necessary. Dwayne Johnson charms his way through his thinly structured character by appearing someone with heroics written all over him, that you may have your eyes the entire time following him as he saves both his family and the world. Carrying such responsibility would, of course, give way to making stupid and. brow-arching decisions (like when characters take pauses to have tender moments, cry, hug, and play the emotional blame game, in the middle of what could be an apocalyptic doom), and you would be incredibly happy laughing about such preposterousness, while also thrilled, watching the characters defeat the impossible. But its hard to appreciate such effort of putting emotional touch on the characters when they rarely go in congruence with character development.
In the end, the film is nothing but one powerful quake that has just passed by before abruptly ceasing to exist. What is left after drowning entirely in the imminence of cataclysmic dangers and horrors of apocalyptic annihilation, is a feeling of voidness. SAN ANDREAS' greatness is as seismic as any cgi-packed disaster movie can be, and it's epic in such way, but it hardly leaves a sense of emotional satisfaction, making it a forgettable entry to the disaster category. 6/10
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It will be impossible to chase after logic and sense once the Earth ruptures open in SAN ANDREAS. This doesn't mean there's plenty to find, because the truth is, there's barely any, but SAN ANDREAS doesn't really need to be logical for it to be able to deliver its sense-juddering capacity. The film works with eye-popping visuals alone, and this is why the film, amidst of all its shortcomings, is still worth seeing.
SAN ANDREAS is exactly the film you would expect to see from a big-budgeted disaster movie. It teems with ground-cracking quakes, earth shattering explosions, and gigantic earth-wiping tsunamis. Through these visual tactics, the movie keeps the audience's attention glued on screen, that it would be impossible to ponder whether what's happening is still logical or not. This makes assessing the performance of the actors not an easy job, and I'm not saying it's necessary. Dwayne Johnson charms his way through his thinly structured character by appearing someone with heroics written all over him, that you may have your eyes the entire time following him as he saves both his family and the world. Carrying such responsibility would, of course, give way to making stupid and. brow-arching decisions (like when characters take pauses to have tender moments, cry, hug, and play the emotional blame game, in the middle of what could be an apocalyptic doom), and you would be incredibly happy laughing about such preposterousness, while also thrilled, watching the characters defeat the impossible. But its hard to appreciate such effort of putting emotional touch on the characters when they rarely go in congruence with character development.
In the end, the film is nothing but one powerful quake that has just passed by before abruptly ceasing to exist. What is left after drowning entirely in the imminence of cataclysmic dangers and horrors of apocalyptic annihilation, is a feeling of voidness. SAN ANDREAS' greatness is as seismic as any cgi-packed disaster movie can be, and it's epic in such way, but it hardly leaves a sense of emotional satisfaction, making it a forgettable entry to the disaster category. 6/10