What people are forgetting...

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2013)

... the film is BASED on a true family. Just because they are a white British family who have travel insurance (which everyone tends to get when they go on holiday) doesn't mean that the film is a LIE. Has it crossed your minds that the Spanish family may have been just as well off and also got travel insurance?? In my opinion, as long as the actors represent a true feeling and represented the family it is based on in a good way regardless of what race they are, THATS what makes a film good. Geeeez...
And as for those wanting a film about all the Thai people who suffered terribly during this time, please do not see the film as this is solely about ONE family events. This is THE only family in which the film delves in. Please remember this is about a family's experience and events during the tsunami in Thailand, not a factual documentary.
As for the film itself, I thought the VFX was absolutely out of the world. Amazingly realistic! I do think the writing could've been slightly better, but then again, who am I to judge, they are the ones making the big bucks!