Nothing shakes the earth like an earthquake, and nothing shakes the box office like The Rock.
Combining the two, we have San Andreas.
While my expectations weren't high, and were delivered on, this big budget piece of silly is a fun watch all the same.
Logic, common sense and any actual plausible reality all get thrown from the first tumbling building in San Andreas, but that won't stop The Rock from charming us all into submission. The man has an unstoppable cinematic charisma, and when armed with the role of all-round hero in this latest outing, his fan base will be left screaming for more.
Here he is Ray, an almost divorced LA Fire and Rescue chopper pilot with hundreds of rescues to his credit and with the biceps to prove it. His skills and his muscles will come in handy, as California is about to be hit by the biggest swarm of earthquakes the world has ever seen. Not even scientist Paul Giamatti can predict their strength.
When they do hit (cue a gazillion hours of CGI rendering as downtown LA crumbles to the ground), Ray will embark on a mission to save his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino), then across the disaster-stricken state to San Francisco to rescue his teenage daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario).
There is a family back story underpinning the drama, and Ray's journey will be an emotional roller coaster (cue the cheese) as well as a physical one (cue the silly).
Yes there are laughs when there shouldn't be, yes the WTF near escapes from inevitable and certain death are beyond the pale, but San Andreas delivers on its premise just fine.
This is a disaster movie on so many levels, but the patriotic cheese and the cliché come with the territory and anybody expecting anything more than this is sitting in the wrong cinema.
San Andreas
:: Director: Brad Peyton
:: Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Colton Haynes, Archie Panjabi, Will Yun Lee, Kylie Minogue
:: Rating: M - Offensive language
:: Running Time: 114 minutes
:: Release Date: May 28, 2015
Combining the two, we have San Andreas.
While my expectations weren't high, and were delivered on, this big budget piece of silly is a fun watch all the same.
Logic, common sense and any actual plausible reality all get thrown from the first tumbling building in San Andreas, but that won't stop The Rock from charming us all into submission. The man has an unstoppable cinematic charisma, and when armed with the role of all-round hero in this latest outing, his fan base will be left screaming for more.
Here he is Ray, an almost divorced LA Fire and Rescue chopper pilot with hundreds of rescues to his credit and with the biceps to prove it. His skills and his muscles will come in handy, as California is about to be hit by the biggest swarm of earthquakes the world has ever seen. Not even scientist Paul Giamatti can predict their strength.
When they do hit (cue a gazillion hours of CGI rendering as downtown LA crumbles to the ground), Ray will embark on a mission to save his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino), then across the disaster-stricken state to San Francisco to rescue his teenage daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario).
There is a family back story underpinning the drama, and Ray's journey will be an emotional roller coaster (cue the cheese) as well as a physical one (cue the silly).
Yes there are laughs when there shouldn't be, yes the WTF near escapes from inevitable and certain death are beyond the pale, but San Andreas delivers on its premise just fine.
This is a disaster movie on so many levels, but the patriotic cheese and the cliché come with the territory and anybody expecting anything more than this is sitting in the wrong cinema.
San Andreas
:: Director: Brad Peyton
:: Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Colton Haynes, Archie Panjabi, Will Yun Lee, Kylie Minogue
:: Rating: M - Offensive language
:: Running Time: 114 minutes
:: Release Date: May 28, 2015
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