Realistic portrayal of Disaster.......

Rating: 8/10 (16 October 2014)

This is an excellent movie about the tsunami disaster of 2004 concentrating on the experiences of one family. Mum, Dad and 3 kids arrive on a Thai island for what ought to be a wonderful Xmas holiday; instead disaster strikes and this film is a real tear jerker. Who will survive, if any, and where are they?! From my own knowledge and research and what I recall, the tragedy of the tsunami is accurately shown in the film. At the time of the tsunami I was in another part of Thailand about 1 hour by jet away from where it hit, yet I could still feel the after shock of it. The movie is superbly yet horrifically presented and the children in the picture give the stand out performances especially the actor Tom Holland. The family are portrayed in the movie as British, but in real life were Spanish, yet the change in nationality is justified in telling this story. Deserves a high rating:
8/10.