San Andreas (2015)
Director: Brad Peyton.
Synopsis
Ray (Dwayne Johnson) is a specialist search and rescue helicopter pilot who finds himself battling collapsing buildings and tsunami waves as San Francisco suffers following a series of massive earthquakes. Desperate to find his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) and daughter (Alexandra Daddario), he has to fight his way through the rubble and the rising water to save them.
Review
It's not often I give a 5/5 star rating for a film, but San Andreas certainly deserves it.
Not that it is a movie classic in terms of wit, acting, class or whatever critics use to describe the more highbrow examples of movie perfection. Any script littered with over earnest explanation and preposterous postulating could never be in that class. San Andreas instead inhabits its own blissful level of immersive cinematic enjoyment.
Catch this in 3D (or, better still, 4DX) for this is a film that not uses 3D, it positively re-invents it to literally drop you in amongst the toppling buildings and towering tsunami waves. The depth perception is such that you almost join the escape route of the characters.
And even 'The Rock' escapes with some credit and distinction to his name.
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Cast & credits
Producer: Beau Flynn. Writer: Carlton Cuse. Camera: Steve Yedlin. Music: Andrew Lockington. Sets: Barry Chusid.
Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffud, Archie Panjabi, Paul Giamatti, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Art Parkinson, Will Yun Lee, Kylie Minogue, Colton Hayes.
