Thus begins Operation: Save My Family, without our hero receiving a call from LAFD or checking in with them (so much for, “I go where they tell me to go”). But, Emma’s new man showed his true colors when he left her daughter for dead once the quake hit. How did she get to San Francisco after Ray was called to duty? Daniel’s private jet, of course. Not long after that rescue, he receives a call from Blake, who is trapped in the parking garage in one of Daniel’s buildings. The hero just so happens to be flying a rescue chopper solo when he receives a call from Emma that she’s trapped in an L.A. With the titular character triggered, devastation begins and events are set into motion to reunite Ray and his fractured family. Chung ( Will Yun Lee, “The Wolverine”), has created a device that can predict when an earthquake will strike. Alarming seismic activity leads the pair to the Hoover Dam, where they unfortunately find out their device works really really well as they get caught in a off-the-charts quake which destroys the dam (how many times has this iconic dam been destroyed on-screen?), a whole lot of people and triggers the San Andreas fault line that stretches up and down the California coast. Lawrence Hayes (a wide-eyed Paul Giamatti), a professor, who along with his partner, Dr. While we’re figuring out where certain characters land, like Emma ( Carla Gugino), Ray’s estranged wife – who just served him papers and is about to move in with smarmy billionaire architect, Daniel Riddick (played by the seemingly ageless, Ioan Grufford) – the building ominous score by Andrew Lockington (“Journey 2: Mysterious Island”, surprise!) tells us we’re about to meet the tectonic plate shifting antagonist.īut first stop is the CalTech seismology department, where we meet the token expert, in this case, Dr. Oh stop, it turns out she’s really nice and just as resourceful as her superhero pop! In no way is her sexualized intro and presence an homage to countless other disaster flicks. Of course, his daughter is introduced as a busty babe sitting poolside in a bikini. “They grow up fast”, Ray tells a colleague. Ray and his crew ( Colton Haynes and Todd Williams), have a ride-along reporter ( Archie Panjabi) and her cameraman on board, capturing their courageous maneuvers and providing a clichéd gateway to our protagonist.Īfter the daring and successful rescue of a cute California blonde dangling over a crack in the earth in her Subaru, we learn that Ray plans on driving his daughter, Blake ( Alexandria Daddario), up to San Francisco where she’ll start college. It’s an obvious establishing scene, setting the nail-biting tone found throughout “San Andreas”, and, of course, an opening that introduces us to Chief Ray Gaines ( Dwayne Johnson), a no-nonsense Los Angeles Fire and Rescue helicopter pilot, who brushes off his over 600 saves with a “I go where they tell me to go” humble bravado. The movie opens with probably the most gripping rescue scene since the opening of Renny Harlin’s “Cliffhanger” (thankfully, the outcome isn’t the same). I’m going to assume he saw his role as a rescue pilot as a tribute to all those real-life men and women who risk their lives to save others and based on the trailer alone, this movie looked quite harrowing and definitely a movie where we’d find Johnson’s character in over his head – or at least dangling down a crack in the Earth. I’ve come to appreciate Dwayne Johnson for what he does both on (well, I haven’t seen “The Tooth Fairy”) and off-screen, so I was really curious what drew him to “San Andreas”. In case you didn’t know, this movie stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (if you didn’t, maybe you’ve been living under one – sorry, humor may be my coping mechanism in the wake of this movie), so many will it as “The Rock vs. Most of all though, this is a movie that has helped me realize that I’ve outgrown natural disasters and insurmountable death tolls as entertainment – and for that, I thank “San Andreas”. This movie, which is swaying side to side with heavy 3D CGI and is tipping over on account of its predictable corny dialogue, was just too much for me. is counting on summer blockbuster glory, isn’t that great either. It’s not because “San Andreas” is awful, but the latest entry in the disaster genre, that Warner Bros. Rating: PG-13 (for intense disaster action and mayhem throughout, and brief strong language)įrom the director of “Journey 2: Mysterious Island” and “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore”, comes a movie I never want to see again. Produced by: Beau Flynn, Hiram Garcia and Tripp Vinson
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