Impressive story with a lot of Hollywood

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2019)

"Lo imposible" tells the story of a family on vacation in Asia when a tsunami hits the coast, seperating them and leaving them on a desperate search for each other in a destroyed land.
The film is based on historic happenings, in fact many viewers will still remember the terrible floods that hit South-East Asia around 15 years ago. It looks a bit clean in the beginning and paints a stereotypical Hollywood picture of a happy hard-working family but once the catastrophe starts to unroll, producers managed quite skilfully to catch and portray the emotions that such a dramatic series of events necessarily evokes. There are not huge twists or surprises, rather it's just what you would expect from a major production that deals with recent catastrophe. Which isn't always a bad thing because it means a professional production, decent acting and powerful images but it also has its downsides.
All in all this is a more than solid approach to this topic that delivers a powerful story and makes you thankful for the life you have. It could have been a bit more rough and less Hollywood in my opinion but that's a question of taste.