Director: Brad Peyton
Writers: Carlton Cuse (screenplay),
Andre Fabrizio (story)
Stars: Dwayne Johnson,
Carla Gugino,
Alexandra Daddario
Storyline
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper
pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his
estranged daughter.
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Rock is a curious choice for a leading man. His enormous physique is
perfect for the cartoon world of GI Joe, or the Fast and Furious films,
and Michael Bay exploited it to grand guignol effect in Pain & Gain,
but here it's problematic. The man looks so strong you can't ever buy
he's in real danger, and he can't yet convey the emotional range you'd
need to be convinced he's emotionally vulnerable either. That, however,
is the least of San Andreas's problems.
San Andreas is one in a very long line of PG-rated films dating back to the mid-nineties that engulf American coastal cities with CGI.Thousands die (including a WTF cameo from Kylie Minogue) but you'd never know it, the insensitivity and cowardice of the PG rating meaning the film can happily exploit 9/11 imagery without it really feeling like anyone got hurt. In this day and age, this feels borderline insensitive. More so, the script feels the need to turn it up to 9.6 on the Richter scale of stupidity and then take itself seriously, no better represented here as Paul Giamatti doing his most serious seriousness that it vaults into true camp. Contrivance is heaped on contrivance to contrived effect, and suspension of disbelief is suspended to suspenseless effect.
Occasionally between all the shifting CGI plates, the film quietens down and here it actually becomes moderately engaging, before it asks the cast to gaze at a CGI American flag unfurling against a CGI magic hour and crass reassurances that everything is fine, but it hasn't earned the right to reassure us because it isn't any good.The sound crew do sterling work, and little Art Pilkington from The Impossible show the rest of the cast how to be genuinely charming and funny, the one survivor (okay, Carla Gugino is lovely and warm as always) of this digital disaster foisted on an unexpected audience, the true victims of this tale.
San Andreas is one in a very long line of PG-rated films dating back to the mid-nineties that engulf American coastal cities with CGI.Thousands die (including a WTF cameo from Kylie Minogue) but you'd never know it, the insensitivity and cowardice of the PG rating meaning the film can happily exploit 9/11 imagery without it really feeling like anyone got hurt. In this day and age, this feels borderline insensitive. More so, the script feels the need to turn it up to 9.6 on the Richter scale of stupidity and then take itself seriously, no better represented here as Paul Giamatti doing his most serious seriousness that it vaults into true camp. Contrivance is heaped on contrivance to contrived effect, and suspension of disbelief is suspended to suspenseless effect.
Occasionally between all the shifting CGI plates, the film quietens down and here it actually becomes moderately engaging, before it asks the cast to gaze at a CGI American flag unfurling against a CGI magic hour and crass reassurances that everything is fine, but it hasn't earned the right to reassure us because it isn't any good.The sound crew do sterling work, and little Art Pilkington from The Impossible show the rest of the cast how to be genuinely charming and funny, the one survivor (okay, Carla Gugino is lovely and warm as always) of this digital disaster foisted on an unexpected audience, the true victims of this tale.
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