San Andreas

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with the girl, Natalie (Morgan Griffin), driving through the cliff of San Fernando Valley, 16 miles (25.75 kms) north of Los Angeles, when suddenly the rock slides onto the car, causing it to fall then hang into the edge of cliff. Moments later, Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter-pilot Chief Raymond "Ray" Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) and his other colleagues comes to rescue the girl trapped in the car. Ray safely rescues the girl moments before the car falls into the cliff.In CALTECH, Dr. Kim Park (Will Yun Lee) receives a data of minor earthquakes in Falco, Nevada and shows it to his collegue and seismologist Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti). The minor quakes measure 2.0 to 2.6. Hayes is curious of why such a minor quakes can produce even there are no faults in Nevada. Hayes and Park decide to go to Nevada to test the theory.While Ray is calling for his daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario), for the upcoming trip to San Francisco, he receives a divorce papers. Recently, he is divorced from his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino) and she is now with his new boyfriend Daniel Riddick (Ioan Gruffudd).Meanwhile, at the Hoover Dam, along with Hayes, Park is now testing a magnetic pulse of quake. Suddenly, his device detects a sudden spike pulse then a stronger earthquake triggers. It measures 7.0 - highest ever recorded. As the dam starting to break, Park struggles to escape while Hayes tells the people, still on the dam, to get out. Park now exits the dam facility, however when he sees a girl - staying beside the dam while crying - he carries her out. After rescuing the girl, Park is impaled by a rod in his right foot. The dam completely crumbles and Park is killed. The disaster leads to the flooding in towns and the earthquake was the strongest and destructive ever recorded in Nevada's history.Back to California, Ray arrives at his family house for planning what to do for the trip. After that, Ray is back to work for another mission: rescue the disaster victims in Nevada. Daniel and Blake head to San Francisco for a meeting. While Daniel is having a meeting, Blake meets an English guy named Ben Taylor (Hugo Johnstone-Burt) - having an interview - and his brother, Ollie (Art Parkinson).In CALTECH, the reporter, Serena (Archie Panjabi) arrived and wants to interview Hayes about what happen in Nevada. Hayes states that they didn't know that there was any fault line in there. He says that they can predict an earthquake just like they did along with Park. One of his colleague interrupts Hayes and he presents him the data showing the pulse rates where detected on the entire San Andreas fault. The pulse rates were higher than Nevada. Hayes then explains to them on why the earthquake triggered in Nevada even there are no fault line: his theory is to draw a fault line near Nevada and it connects to the end of the fault boundary. Hayes predicts that the whole San Andreas might go off.In Los Angeles, Emma is having a lunch with Daniel's sister, Susan, in a high rise restaurant. After some conversation with Susan, Emma answers a call from Ray, in the helicopter en route for maintenance. Ray apologizes Emma for what he did the other day. Their phone conversation is interrupted by the strong earthquake. Emma tells to Ray that they're having an earthquake and he also notice that the freeway is crumbling in the process. Ray instructs Emma to get to the roof for rescue. According to the CALTECH, the first major earthquake peaked at 8.5 and later 9.1. Not only in Los Angeles, but the whole California and the quake is heading to San Francisco where Blake and Daniel are there.While the ensuing destructive earthquake, the people inside the building panic in terror; others are injured. Emma told Susan to get to the roof together, but she goes to the exit, only she is killed in a crumbling floor. Emma made it to the roof, with the floor and the surrounding structures crumbling in the process. Emma manage to recover and emerges from the rubble. Finally, Ray rescues Emma and barely escapes as the surrounding structures collapse. The whole city is now completely devastated.Meanwhile in San Francisco, after Ben has the interview, Blake borrows Ollie's book to write her number in it for Ben to call her. As Blake and Daniel drive inside the parking lot, the earthquake hits. They manages to escape but the floor collapses ahead and they become trapped. The debris crushes the driver, making the driver's seat to stuck Blake's leg. Daniel leaves her for help. As Daniel calls for help, the debris falls near to him and kills a security guard. Because of this, he flees in terror instead of saving Blake.Ben and Ollie are struggling to save her as the debris above her continues to press the roof. By using the screw jack to lift the debris out, Blake is still stuck but at least the driver's seat pushes away a bit. When Ben pops the tires, finally they rescue her. The trio get out of the building as the aftershock continues. The trio decides to go to the electronic store in order for her to contact with her family.Blake, Ben and Ollie goes to the electronic store. Blake found the phone and she calls her parents that she's okay. Also, she tells them that Daniel left him. This makes Emma angry and she leaves an intimidating message to Daniel's voicemail. Ray advises Blake that they will need to get out immediately and they will go to Coit Tower as rendezvous. Ray and Emma quickly heads to San Francisco to save her.Meanwhile, Daniel is walking through the crowd in the street when suddenly a strong earthquake hits again. The structure ahead the crowd collapses. In order to save himself, Daniel steals the safe spot of one of its victims. The victim is swept away by the debris.When Ray and Emma are en route to the city, the helicopter's engine fails, forcing them to make a crash landing into the superstore in Bakersfield. As they try to steal the vehicle, which is already stolen, the perpetrator aims the gun to him but he manage to subdue the perpetrator and then they drive away.With the help of Serena, Hayes is able to warn the others, through the news coverage, of a much bigger earthquake in San Francisco. He tells the people of San Francisco to get out now, and their lives depends on it.After Ray and Emma obtain the vehicle, they drive out when they see an old couple warns that them to stop their vehicle - it is the now-opened San Andreas fault rendering the road impassable. They drive it back to the old couple who happen to own an airplane. In exchange for their stolen vehicle, Ray and Emma manage to fly their plane to San Francisco. While on the plane, Ray recaps about what happen with their daughter, Mallory, who died in a rafting accident. Ray regrets because he did not save his daughter. That's why Emma stays harder with Blake and that's the reason of Emma and Ray getting divorce. Then they fly to San FranciscoBlake, Ben and Ollie, walking through the streets of crowd, head to Coit Tower for their meeting place, but it is already engulfed in flames. So, they change the plan by going to the highest ground which is Nob Hill in order to signal her family.Ray and Emma make it to San Francisco but they cannot land the plane because the airport has a lot of cracks and scattered planes. Ray has no choice but they will sky dive to the stadium - still standing - leaving the plane to crash into the Pacific Ocean as long as it runs out the fuel.Meanwhile, Blake, Ben and Ollie are walking through the deserted street when the strong earthquake hits. The earthquake measures 9.6, the largest recorded in the history. Blake and Ollie quickly get into the side of the street but Ben goes to the opposite side. The glass shard, coming from the building, pricks Ben's leg. The remaining still standing structures destroy, ground ruptures, suspension bridge crumbles, etc. At the same time, Ray manages to tell other people to get the side of the stadium safely and the higher beams nearly crashes them - but all of them are safe.After the earthquake, Blake carefully removes the glass shard from Ben's leg and then they move to the highest ground. Ray and Emma drive in the boat to the city where they see Coit Tower is on fire. He knows that Blake has gone somewhere else. They notice that the water recedes quickly, which means that the tsunami is about to hit the city. As the trio receives the tsunami warning from the radio, it is too late for them to head to the highest ground. So, the trio quickly heads to the Daniel's unfinished building.Ray and Emma, in the boat, and the other boats manage to drive into the giant tidal wave. They almost made it through but they almost hit a cargo ship, that is carried by tidal wave. Daniel, is still on the Golden Gate Bridge, and is crushed by loose ship container, killing him. The cargo ship slices the Golden Gate Bridge in half and the tidal wave continues to hit the city. Sadly, most of the people, still on the ground, don't make it.The trio is in now in the building when the tidal wave hits. Ray and Emma drive through the devastated town to find Blake. Blake and Ollie sees her parents riding in the boat but they don't see them. Ollie then uses the laser pointer - that he obtained from the electronics store - to attract her parents. Now the parents sees them inside the building, but before can save them, the building starts to sink into the ground. Blake is separated from the two brothers as they made it up to the floor. Blake is now trapped inside as the water continues to rise up. Ray manages to rescue his daughter, only the exits are jammed. Blake then apparently dies from drowning and Ray struggles to get her out. Ray then tries to resuscitate Blake, but as the building is going to collapse, Emma drives through the window and they quickly get out as the building finally collapses completely.Once outside, after Ray tried to revive Blake, she's now back to her life and finally reunites with her family. Later, the five make it to a relief in Marin County. The family along with Ben and Ollie watch the sunset, on the destroyed and radically altered geography of the San Francisco Bay Area, and they talk about the future. They also see an American flag is wave to the now-destroyed Golden Gate Bridge.

Tags: suspenseful, humor, romantic, flashback

Review:
It features a family (that apparently has no last name, at least not that I ever learned, nor is there any last name listed for them in the credits, so I will call them Family #1), a pretty family, an upper-middle-class family that is going through a rather benign divorce and Emma causes trouble immediately because she is moving in with a richy rich dude (who has a last name, because he's Daniel Riddick), a thoroughly loathsome man incapable of love except for buildings.Ray is solid as a rock, he's something sturdy, like a real man, someone you can cling to or hold on to no matter what.
You see, Ray is a professional rescue-chopper pilot, so the death of his daughter is as much personal as it was a professional blunder.The main problem with this disaster movie is that Family #1 is split in two groups, and there is no real belief that any of them will ever actually die, although San Andreas does feature Blake enduring the longest non-death sequence I've ever seen.
In better disaster movies, like the original Poseidon Adventure (it's unfortunate that I have to clarify the "original" Poseidon Adventure) the protagonists are traipsing and shambling through the disaster together, and they drop like flies until the very end, when only a handful of the worthy and fortunate survive.The acting in San Andreas isn't bad, and it's not good.
Going into this film I knew it wasn't going to be one of the best films I've ever seen I just knew I would like the visual effects and the action, although there were some parts that wouldn't have happened in real life but that's standard Hollywood, it's expected.
San Andreas is obviously the latter and my entire family simply loved it.Like all action movies, you have to suspend some belief and avoid taking it too seriously.
Special effects are downright spectacular while avoiding going over the top.If you're looking for a night of fun at the movies with friends or family in the next couple of weeks, San Andreas is a 10 ...
I cannot deny I was rooting for them, that maybe being due to the fact that the actors involved are honestly all doing a good enough job, but the fact that it tries to achieve character empathy through clichés that have been present in cinema since the beginning of time is ridiculous.That being said, it does deliver the goods of a disaster movie and delivers them much more competently than the recent disaster films we have seen on the big screen.
Moreover there is a great use of long takes in certain parts of the film, one in particular is very long and threw me right into the action like no other disaster movie ever had done before.If you know what you are in for you will have a good time and you will be given back your money's worth, you won't want to be re-watching this movie anytime, but that is perfectly fine and fits the film in what it is trying to achieve..
San Andreas is a spectacular disaster film that blends breathtaking special effects with heart rending personal stories of incredible power.
A film that serves as a quite profound cautionary tale as well as a story of high adventure, San Andreas is a superb film that succeeds as a drama as well as the finest disaster movie to come out of Hollywood in decades..
We rebuild." Yes. I know that this was "just-a-movie" - (But, all the same) - Whether this was a story about a natural catastrophe or about a vicious terrorist attack - I would have seriously thought that by now (especially after the horrific reality of 9/11) that the American people would have had "enough already" when it came to having buildings coming crashing down on their heads.But, I guess, this doesn't appear to be the case - As is evident here in this movie of total mass destruction.And, if this wasn't puzzling and peculiar enough as it is.....
There were great performances by Dwayne Johnson, and the other actors and actresses and I liked how he was able to partake in a role which is not all action (as in fighting) Overall it was a great suspenseful movie!.
Hardly predictable IMO, the movie itself is well thought out and well made, the CGI is pretty good and realistic (people shrieked out in excitement from various parts of the theater at various times!), and Dwayne Johnson brings an exciting vibe to the whole show.
San Andreas is an action packed film which keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through.You honestly don't know whats going to happen next.
OK maybe some scenes where a bit unrealistic and un-life-like, But the whole story behind made it feel acceptable.Recommend to everyone and very surprised that this film hasn't got a better rating..
I did not notice whether the actors did a good job or not, as I was mesmerized by the trembling world, created by awesome visual effect.Dwayne Johnson was great in role of muscle flexing bad-ass, savior.
Something more was expected from Mr.Fantastic Ioan Gruffudd, but he seemed to be used only to show Carla was going to make a bad decision.There were some interesting staffs were also shown, which will be helpful in time of real disaster.If you are not a critique, and don't want to waste energy to find technical faults; you will love this movie.And please watch it in 3D..
The Rock showed a more decent side to his acting skills and whilst the plot is a straightforward disaster and rescue, it was a brilliant edge of the seat film.Worth watching at the cinema for the effects.
Los Angeles, San Francisco and even Hoover Dam in Nevada is getting wasted by series of huge earthquakes, which are caused by the San Andreas fault zone – thank god, we have Dwayne Johnson!San Andreas is that kind of "blow your brains out and hold on!" -destruction porn, what I have waited for 19 years, since Independence Day. It is really f**n entertaining and I love'd every second of the ride.Also the 3D is created well – even though stereoscopic effect is generated afterwards in digital post-production.There are dozens of stupid and illogical takes and sequences that makes you face palm yourself, but the fact is, that San Andreas is just awesome disaster movie..
San Andreas is a 2015 disaster movie, starring Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario.
Currently in cinemas, this movie is amazing in 3D.San Andreas is the story of Ray, a rescue-helicopter pilot.
It's a set above the rest of most disaster movies; it's set a very high bar in the genre, leaving the only question: can something beat this movie?In my opinion, not until special effects get even better than they are today.10/10, if you're looking for the right movie on a date, or just a night out, go see San Andreas..
Not an Indie movie, not a Sundance one, not a Focus ........all which I love........this is a kick ass (spectacular!) movie......after so long (like Poseidon Adventure/Gene Hackman and Earthquake/Charlton Heston put together with new technology).....finally we are moving ahead .....Dwayne Johnson is coming along and the whole cast rock!......no pun......got to watch it........in 3d.........awesome....arrive early.Without alarming is a movie to enjoy but at the same time made us think in preparedness and take things like the news responsibly.....specially the human factor of collaboration and the heroism that should exist in each of us....
I don't tend to write many review's but if something is generally fantastic/under appreciated or horribly wrong in every way I will write about it, I recently watched San Andreas I seen the trailer's and thought it was a film to watch and it was.I was not disappointed the cast where phenomenal playing their role's which is not a surprise considering the cast.
Its all about Survival when Ray (Dwayne Johnson) tries to beat the natural disasters ahead of them to save his daughter (Alexandra Daddario) and wife (Carla Gugino)and bring them to safety.
Big thumbs up for the score of this film.In closing, San Andreas is just one heck of a fun disaster movie.
If you love disaster films you will love this because it is visually stunning with top of the line stunts and CGI that made this movie one of a kind..
The film works with eye-popping visuals alone, and this is why the film, amidst of all its shortcomings, is still worth seeing.SAN ANDREAS is exactly the film you would expect to see from a big-budgeted disaster movie.
SAN ANDREAS' greatness is as seismic as any cgi-packed disaster movie can be, and it's epic in such way, but it hardly leaves a sense of emotional satisfaction, making it a forgettable entry to the disaster category.
Have this lousy movie play in the background while you are making out with your GF/BY or as you are doing work around the house.Its not worth your full attention as the acting is bad, the scenes are about as realistic as Star Wars, the CGI leaves a lot to be desired and the plot is so blatantly predictable..
Not here to give a master speech as if I have some PHD in movie reviewing.Just would like to tell in short that-.If you are one of them who likes to experience pure 3D entertainment with great visual effects..Go for this movie..You shouldn't regret it..Dwayne Johnson has been great throughout..So have been other actors in the movie..3D effects are very good..You will feel the experience of a massive earthquake..Worth watching...
And how!Okay, the family-in-peril is the grandmother of all disaster-movie story lines, and Dwayne Johnson is not the most charismatic actor on screen (and just how charismatic was Charlton Heston in EARTHQUAKE or Sylvester Stallone in DAYLIGHT?), but SAN ANDREAS wisely centres on this one family and one don't-say-I-didn't-warn-you earthquake expert (Paul Giamatti).
You should not be disappointed at all.Recommend the slower, but very impressive, non CGI effects in the 1974 film "Earthquake" with Charleston Heston and Ava Gardner, if you want more of a city-wide view of L.A. being destroyed by a major quake.In the 1974 version, you have freeways bridges cracking, city blocks crumbling, LAX shaking, cows tumbling, cars getting crushed, elevators free falling, power line towers rocking, houses falling off stilts, mission bells shaking and the Capital Records building getting sheared.Overall, I give "San Andreas" a 7/10, impressive effects and a good human story.
SCENES: San Andreas brings jaw dropping special effects to the fray, showing what a major earthquake in California could look like.
The stunts are excellent and the special effects are brilliant in their realism - yeah they're a bit over the top but it genuinely looks like they destroyed San Francisco in their quest to make this film.It's not Shakespeare and no-one is expecting any of the leads to win best actor at next years Oscars for this but Dwayne proves a strong lead with the rest of the cast doing an amiable job with the exception of Aussie actor Hugo Johnstone-Burt who seems to be doing a Lee Evans impression in his attempt to play a Brit.If you like disaster movies you'll love this; everyone else switch your brain in to neutral and enjoy the thrill ride!.
Of course that are some scenes where you might be tempted to roll your eyes knowing that there's now way it could happen like that, but if they made the movie true to real life rescues, it would be boring.
But in the 2015 sci-fi/disaster opus SAN ANDREAS, California's time has run out.Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson portrays an L.A. Fire Department chopper pilot who is expert at saving people's lives, but who wasn't able to save one of his daughters during a whitewater rafting trip that turned tragic; and soon his life is turned upside down when his wife (Carla Gugino) serves him with divorce papers.
Johnson is thus forced into action to rescue Gugino from a crumbling high rise in Downtown Los Angeles; and with the knowledge that his only surviving daughter (Alexandra Daddrio) is up in San Francisco, he and Gugino must outrace the continuous destruction, and some hair-raising events (including having to parachute from a plummeting aircraft into San Francisco's AT&T Ballpark; plus a gigantic tsunami that swamps the City by the Bay), to get her.Without question, like a lot of Hollywood blockbusters that rely so heavily on CGI, SAN ANDREAS suffers at times from plausibility issues, as real-life Caltech seismologists Lucy Jones and Kate Hutton pointed out.
Still, in terms of certain important rescue and destruction scenarios, like many older buildings collapsing with nightmarish results, SAN ANDREAS does things right, especially with the presence of Johnson playing an Everyman type of hero.Though it shares its scenario with two other important films of this type (1974's EARTHQUAKE, and the 1990 made-for-TV film THE BIG ONE: THE GREAT LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE), SAN ANDREAS also borrows liberally from more recent high-octane sci-fi/disaster films like 1998's DEEP IMPACT, 2004's THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, and, perhaps most especially, the 2009 end-of-the world spectacle "2012." But while director Brad Peyton is not in the human-interest category of a Steven Spielberg, he is still able to get the best out of his six main cast members, who are not stereotypical cardboard clichés, even with a script and storyline with plausibility problems.
Finally, all the actors did a fine job doing their thing and Brad Peyton delivered the goods with his directing skills.In the end, San Andreas is a movie boasting insane visuals, and a great sound design.
I normally do like big disaster movies even though you know it's going to be much exaggerated.
Although it's also slightly predictable but again, The Rock did really well in this story.To conclude, San Andreas pleased me in my disaster movie passion once again!
If you're a big disaster movie fan like me, you should really watch this.
I guess in my book, a disaster movie would be one genre of film that would work well in 4DX, and certainly this time I am not wrong.At the risk of betraying my age, I recall in my childhood that there was a famous film entitled "Earthquake" (1974) which was a big deal back then because it was shown in theaters with a special soundtrack effect called "Sensurround." My vague recollections of that movie experience was very loud and heavy bass sound effects made audiences feel like they were shaking along with the action on the screen.
However, their equipment shows that that that Nevada earthquake was just the precursor of a bigger, more destructive as their indicators light up the whole San Andreas fault line from Los Angeles all the way to San Francisco!Meanwhile, we meet Fire and Rescue chief Ray Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) had to rescue his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino) trapped somewhere in LA, and then rush off by all (and I mean all -- land, sea and air) means of transportation possible to rescue their daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario) trapped somewhere in San Francisco with her two new British friends who helped her, the charming architect Ben (Hugo Johnstone-Burt) and his perky younger brother Ollie (Art Parkinson).
No, we do not really watch films like this for the story.People who watch this film are there to watch the best special effects used to recreate the most realistic disasters.
Director Brad Peyton and Dwayne "The Rock" Johonson pair up again in the earthquake disaster flick 'San Andreas,' named after the fault line that runs across California.This is not as bad as I was expecting.
***review may contain spoilers*** first of this movie is good and it was fun to watch well it does have action to movie but more earthquake flick like Ronald Emmerich films but with director who had worked with Dwayne Johnson In Journey 2 lost island movie i wasn't fan of Journey the mysterious island franchise even i wish it could be Ronald Emmerich directed this movie, director of this film Brad Peyton i didn't expect him to direct this movie.
in 5 minutes straight on fast placed movie straight fast placed this is one of movies with disaster films up to 5 minutes the movie went straight to earthquake but it should have taken little bit time like 20 minutes or 15 minutes of movie but i like it that way with fast placed.(Dwayne Johnson) Chief Raymond "Ray" Gaines Fire Rescue worked with fire department.
this movie i thought it could be boring like another disaster films i wasn't huge fan of.
but i have enjoyed this movie with good main role in film one of my favorite actor Dwayne Johnson had spot on perfection given this character motivation and help everyone to retain engagement.
witch is good in film the only thing i like about is Disasters scenes good CGI witch wasn't to bad.
EARTHQUAKE 7.10 it was good watchable film but rest cast didn't really instead me expect i have fun with Dwayne Johnson in this movie..
If you like Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Paul Giamatti and disaster movies, you'll like this one.
Apocalyptic/disaster movies are nothing new and neither are Dwayne Johnson action films but I think you'll be surprised.
San Andreas is a movie about mostly disasters such as earthquake and tsunami and also facing family problems.
I had to wait for San Andreas to come out on video so I can't judge by how it was in theaters but I'll give my review of the film.Normally disaster movies are hit and messes depending on how you would view them.
Also they took the time to give an actually fact about earthquakes which is not something you get in a movie action thriller like this one.
If you think you have seen enough disaster films, I'm here to say you probably did, is San Andreas any different, well no.
"San Andreas" packs all the clichés of a disaster movie.