San Andreas
Plot summary:
Learning of a seismic swarm is
Falco, Nevada, Dr. Lawrence Hayes and Dr. Kim Chung, both go to investigate it.
And as they’re there, the swarm escalates to a 7.1-magnitude earthquake. The
situation begins to escalate, with more seismic activity increasing along the
San Andreas fault-line, leading to the conclusion that the Nevada incident was
a precursor movement along the leading edge of the plate boundary-fault from
Los Angeles to San Francisco. And as the situation escalates even more, leading
to a 9.1-magnitude quake, Los Angeles Fire Department search-and-rescue
helicopter pilot, Ray Gaines heads off to rescue his wife, Emma, whom he’s separated
from, and his daughter, Blake – all this while Emma is in Los Angeles, meeting
her new boyfriend’s sister, and Blake is in San Francisco, where she meets a
guy, Ben Taylor, and his younger brother, Ollie.
Review:
It’s out of the frying pan and
into another frying pan with this movie. It just sends the main characters of
this movie from one perilous situation to another, elevating the danger through
the progressing scenes. The utter destruction depicted in this movie is
remarkable – spectacular visual effects indeed. And this movie definitely hits
the mark for thrill, not just with the cataclysmic events, but with how they
play out and how the main characters face and get through them. And the music
really assisted in it as well. The dialogues were good – they met the dire
situations well, and also worked pretty well in hitting you in the feels when
Ray Gaines(Dwayne Johnson), and his wife, Emma(Carla Gugino) discuss about the
past traumatic event which lead to their separation. And not forgetting all the
seismology explanations, which I personally found to be interesting.
Coming to the acting, Dwayne
Johnson played his role well in his portrayal of the father who is still
adjusting to a separation, and is also still recovering from the previously-mentioned
traumatic incident. Not only him, but so did Carla Gugino. And the chemistry
between the two seems to play out well as the movie progresses. Alexandra
Daddario(Blake Gaines) and Hugo Johnstone-Burt(Ben Taylor) also were pretty
good, and so was Art Parkinson, who played Ben’s brother, Ollie. And Art was
pretty good in bringing in some comic relief during all that unfolding chaos.
Another noteworthy acting was Paul Giamatti’s role as Dr. Lawrence Haynes, the
seismologist who predicts the earthquake. This was a pretty entertaining movie
to watch.
Here's the trailer:
And here's the movie:
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