More about a relationship than a Tsunami !

Rating: 4/10 (12 August 2019)

The movie was more about the relationship between a mother and her eldest son .Her young son steps up and looks after his mum and ensures that she survives . It had a couple of moments that were quite moving .
Tom Holland who played the eldest son was brilliant ! Watts bizarrely looked like Nicole Kidman and even copied her style of acting! She was wasn't bad but I kept thinking that I was watching Nicole Kidman! . Btw Watch out at the beginning the movie's a bit gory!
The effects of the actual Tsunami before it hit were visually poor . It did not capture the enormity of the Tsunami . The after effects shown weren't great either . I'm sure there was much more devastation than shown .
The hospital was shown to being very dirty , including the mattresses . It was the usual cliche ! In fact Thai hospitals are not dirty . They are very clean. Some Thai hospitals are of a very high standard. They are of a much better standard than any of the private hospitals in the UK and Europe. ( I've been in hospital in Thailand!)
As others have said the movie did not show the suffering of the Thai people at all . We didn't even see any badly injured Thai people . It appeared as though only White Tourists were badly hurt and suffered !
The saddest part of the movie was that it focused solely on the privileged White tourists . I found this very disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands of Thai people injured and dead in the Tsunami .
The movie tried too hard to pull at the viewer's heart strings . As a result it became a bit sickly sweet . It had a 'Hollywood type ' ending . Yuk!