![]() ![]() The exposition is a major problem in San Andreas: For some reason, Cuse felt he needed a lot of it, and needed it delivered in the most thuddingly straightforward way possible. Fortunately, Lawrence has just pioneered a new earthquake-prediction model, albeit one mostly used for Hitchcockian tension, by warning people just in time for a little extra pre-quake dread. Turns out California is a century overdue for a major seismic shake-up, the kind that requires a lot of horrified staring at computer-generated wave patterns and flashing red dots on maps beforehand, and a lot of Roland Emmerich-style just-in-the-nick-of-time-except-occasionally-not fleeing afterward. There’s a long lead-up to the deadly earthquake mayhem, during which personality-free reporter and dumbest-audience-member surrogate Serena (Archie Pajabi) hangs around Ray and prods him to reveal his backstory, then around Cal Tech seismology-studies director Lawrence (Paul Giamatti), eliciting stray chunks of exposition about fault lines. Caught separately in the collapse: Ray’s estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino), their beloved daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario, who just incidentally is 13 years younger than Johnson and Gugino), and Emma’s insanely rich new architect boyfriend Daniel (Ioan Gruffudd). ![]() It isn’t a horrendous movie, but it comes from the school of Dance Movie Thinking: “Everyone’s showing up to this film for one specific kind of sequence, and if these sequences are good, who cares about developing all the character and story crap connecting them?”ĭwayne Johnson stars as Ray, a military vet back from a tour in Afghanistan and handling dicey helicopter rescues in California when a series of earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault reduce San Francisco and L.A. San Andreas is such a programmatic, by-the-numbers film, genre-savvy viewers could practically recite along with the script. Screenwriter Carlton Cuse ( Lost, Bates Motel, The Returned) apparently smuggled it out under his shirt, and hasn’t let go of it since. It was great to see the seismologist ordering people out of the doorways and under the table.If anyone’s been to the Hollywood library lately, looking for the reference copy of The Big Book Of Disaster-Movie Clichés, and wondering who filched it off the shelf, San Andreas provides a pretty hefty clue. 'Drop, cover, hold on' is absolutely the right thing to do in an earthquake. She liked the characters who could confidently tell other characters what to do to make everyone safer. Jones has made it her mission to urge Californians to prepare for big earthquakes. People have worked very hard to prevent that." ![]() The dam collapse? "The complete collapse of Hoover Dam extremely unlikely. "At this point we have no way to tell you the time of an individual event." How about a seismologist being the hero of the movie? "He is the hero because he is predicting the earthquake, and that part, I am afraid, is absolute fiction," said Jones. The Great 1906 Earthquake that devastated San Francisco was felt into Nevada, and that is as far East as it got." They can't be bigger than the ocean is deep."įeel a California earthquake on the East Coast? "Sorry, ain't going to happen. Huge tsunami hits San Francisco? "Here's where we start entering fantasy territory. Fact or fiction: most of the high rises in L A coming down? "Most coming down, fiction.
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