Cashing in on tragedies...

Rating: 4/10 (31 December 2015)

This movie was told from the wrong point of view. It was sort of an insult in a way that director J.A. Bayona decided to focus on a rich white tourist family and not on a local Thai family. It just made the movie tacky and somewhat distasteful.
This is my first, and last, time to watch "The Impossible" because it left me with a really bad taste in my mouth. The movie was a rather bitter pill to swallow.
The movie did have a good cast, although I am no normally fond of Naomi Watts. But she did a good job in "The Impossible". And Evan McGregor is, of course, always great.
Director J.A. Bayona played on some very cheap tricks in order to set up the audience, such as will the family see each other at the hospital even when they are within mere meters of each other.
The visual effects in the movie were good and served their purpose quite well.
All in all, this is a movie that tries to push the humane and emotional buttons of the audience. But it just came off as too racial, putting rich white tourists at the core of the story, when it should have been focused on the Thai as it was their homes, their livelihoods and their country that was struck the hardest by the tsunami tragedy.