San
Andreas is eye-popping for those who love special effects (I happen to be one
of them). You leave feeling you've actually seen California devastated. Cool.
Story-wise the film is nothing special. Same generic plot that you find in most
disaster movies: family/friends separated by the tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption,
hurricane (you name it) need find each other and get to safety. Dwayne Johnson,
playing a fire department rescue specialist, is the main character. Johnson
handles the action scenes well, but, when it comes to the scene or two where
we're supposed to feel his pain over his family problems, it ain't happenin'.
He's too macho to shed a tear, and so he resorts to screwing up his face to
indicate emotion. That being said, like the movie Titanic, you don't buy the
ticket to get warm and fuzzy with the characters; it's about seeing the
computer-generated ship sink or, in this case, computer-generated cities
crumble. On that score, I give it four our of five stars.
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