San Andreas Film Review

Finished watching San Andreas directed by Brad Peyton and staring Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Ioan Gruffudd, Paul Giamatti, Will Yun Lee, Hugo Johnstone-Burt and Art Parkinson. The film opens up with Raymond Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) and his rescue team being interviewed by a TV crew as they rescue a young driver after falling of a cliff. After heading home to get bits for his daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario) Ray heads to his soon to be ex-wife Emma's (Carla Gugino) new home where she lives with her new partner Daniel (Ioan Gruffudd). Meanwhile Dr Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti) and his coworker Dr Kim Park (Will Yun Lee) are using some new earthquake predicating equipment at Hoover Dam where they get court in the middle of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake leading to the dam collapsing. Back at his research lab Lawrence discovers that the whole San Andreas Fault is going to go off. Once onboard his helicopter Ray heads towards Nevada to help with the relief effort only to turn back to Los Angeles to save his ex from the enormous earthquake that struck while they were on the phone. Meanwhile in San Francisco Blake meets with brothers Ben (Hugo Johnstone-Burt) and Ollie (Art Parkinson) in the office building owned by Daniel. When the earthquake hits Blake is trapped in Daniel's car with him leaving Blake as the two brothers from earlier help her out as all three of them get word out to Ray as he and Emma head towards San Francisco to save their daughter. Overall this was a good film as it dealt with the contrast between each story as there is a slightly different tone between each setting within the film as there is a different type of tension at the research laboratory to the tension used in the San Francisco location. While the scientific element gives the film a nice element to the film as well. 7/10.