Utter rubbish, going nowhere

Rating: 2/10 (4 May 2019)

I gave this film a second try after not liking it much the first time round. That because I had been to Thailand and Sri Lanka, the places most affected by the tsunami. I have friends there and donated money to the community rebuilding efforts in one of the towns I had stayed in several times. But I was right, this is movie is a royal waste of time. The entire approach is wrong. The script sucks, the directing and acting is mediocre and the camera work... well, don't get me started. It's Shakycam all over, with the majority of scenes shot with relentless close ups, all for no reason other than screaming 'look how authentic!!' The actual tsunami scenes are shockingly realistic but that's about it. There is no real development from there, no context, nothing that would do justice to the global magnitude of the event. The story and photography suggest you should care about that one white family of five and even that doesn't work. All locals are nameless extras. Pointless and annoying to say the least.