San Andreas (2015)

Although not a favorite or a classic, the film was (much) better than I expected it to be. (It certainly was a hell of a lot better than that awful '2012'!! The visuals are absolutely incredible, so if this was the only thing you wanted to see in a disaster movie, you've come to the right place. Planning and making this film must have been a huge undertaking. The film suffers from the same cliches as most disaster films do, though, where a failed marriage is saved by disaster. Enough already, Hollywood, find other ways to cause conflict between the protagonists.I thought Alexandra Daddario was particularly good (in the role of Blake Gaines). With a little more film experience I think she should be opted as the new Lara Croft. On the other hand, Ioan Gruffudd was terrible! (but maybe only because his character was such a jerk!).In general, the film was exciting and entertaining, and I'll say it again: the visuals were simply AMAZING!

The first thing to remember when you go to watch this movie is IGNORE THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS. Just watch it for yourself without biases. It's actually quite fun to watch. The "big one" finally hits as the long-overdue San Andreas fault goes off (hence the film's title), triggering a huge earthquake. LAFD pilot Ray Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) and his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino) must head north in his helicopter from Los Angeles to rescue their daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario), who is in San Francisco. However, San Francisco is in for another beating - and the largest quake in recorded history.The movie is quite exciting, with an excellent plot (and no, the plot was NOT forgotten). The actors do a good job. The film has a good sense of humour (essential in a movie like this). And, above all, the special effects in the film are FANTASTIC. A definite must-see.

Ok, so what can I say? If you enjoy pure action, high drama and a barrowload of coincidences and near misses then this is the film for you. I lost count the number of times someone escaped by the skin of their teeth sheer moments before a building collapsed or a bridge or a ship comes careering up Main street.Don't get me wrong, this isn't a bad film, it's just all so predictable and gung ho and overly 'YEAH USA, USA, USA'. Sometimes it would be good to watch an Action film that perhaps wasn't quite as far fetched as Hollywood seems to like. The ease at which buildings were ripped apart like sheets of paper was frightening. Surely in an area such as San Francisco which is in a high risk Earthquake zone buildings are constructed to a standard so as to be resistant to tremors. The buildings here were destroyed like the Three Pigs house of Straw. No building or structure escaped undamaged and that just simply wouldn't happen.Much of the film was well acted, i'm beginning to become a bit of a fan of Dwayne Johnson, he's not a bad actor in the films I've seen him in ( other than the Mummy/Scorpion King which were just really bad films), Alexandra Daddario seems fairly versatile in her acting and done a decent job here... On the whole there were no major complaints about the acting ability of the cast, perhaps the direction left a bit to be desired at times, but you can't blame the Actors for that.Some of the effects were well executed, the rippling of the ground as the tremors struck was nicely done, though as mentioned earlier they went a bit OTT with the destruction side of things.Overall not bad as a film, as a piece of eye candy not to be taken seriously. But please, Hollywood, can we have a change from the norm. This type of film could be excellent but they rely far too heavily on these coincidental occurrences tightly packed into the 90 minutes and often the storyline ends up lacking.

San Andreas: Movie Review.San Andreas is an okay film with some spectacular stunning visuals and effects and an amazing 3D, and entertaining performance by Dwayne Johnson.San Andreas has some epic disaster action visuals and visual style but offers nothing more than that. Dwayne Johnson delivers an enjoyable performance but seems and feel very underutilized at certain times. The rest of the cast and characters feels very underdeveloped. The movie also has some very unnecessary, boring and irritating characters that are totally useless in the film. San Andreas has many flaws and issues. The movie falls back in the terms of story plot, script and character development and lack of script originality in a disaster movie. And some times too much over use CGI effects in the movie makes it little bit of less interesting.(Please Note: That This Review represent only my professional point of view and my personal honest opinion about the film, and does not represent others. Thank You).