Annika Tuka
Mrs. Middaugh Writing 2
10-29-15
Go Watch San Andreas
You’re sitting in your bedroom doing work when suddenly you hear a rumbling sound and your house starts to shake, then your wall comes crashing down. What would you do if you lived in California and half of it was about to drop into the ocean? That is what it was like for the residents of California in the movie San Andreas. This film is action packed with a great plot and characters. Most of the scenes will have you jumping in your seat worried, scared, and even happy for the characters. You should go watch San Andreas because it has a great plot, it is a fun and fast paced movie and many other people like it.
The film San Andreas has a great plot. The movie starts on a seemingly ideal day when suddenly California’s San Andreas fault triggers. The earth starts to crack in half and Ray Gaines and his ex wife have to make their way across a destroyed city to find their only daughter Blake, and bring her to safety. Meanwhile Blake and two british brothers she meets are trying to survive and find a way to get to her father. Blake and her two friends run from crumbling buildings and devastating fires, and just when they think they might be safe long enough for Ray to get there, a tsunami comes crashing in. The film San Andreas has a great plot and is very fun.
This movie is very fun and fast-paced. To get you interested the disaster movie opens with a search-and-rescue helicopter crew from the LA Fire Department trying to pluck a young woman from her car, which somersaulted over a cliff and is teetering on the rocky hillside. Glenn Kenney from movie review site, ElbertDigital.com said “San Andreas is both too fleetly action-packed and too nice to provide many hisses. Instead, the movie compels Johnson and Gugino (last names of the actors who play mom and dad) to play dodge-em with falling buildings via chopper, mediate some super-size potholes in a four-by-four, do some impromptu sky-diving when there’s suddenly no viable airport runway to land a small plane on, and much, much more.” (2) Another reviewer, Robbie Collin, from thetelegraph.com says, “San Andreas, a film in which all of California suddenly buckles along its spine, sending the skyscrapers of San Francisco and Los Angeles toppling into one another like dominoes arranged in a fate-tempting row, while the citizens run screaming for their lives.” (3) Is that too fun and fast-paced for you? I hope not. A good benefit of fast paced movie is that it will keep you interested the entire time.
Another reason why you should go watch San Andreas is because many other people love it too! Movie reviewer Glenn Kenny from ElbertDigital.com said “The action is bracing, Johnson’s performance is solid and, within its extremely narrow parameters, entirely convincing, and Gugino and Daddario are both gritty and attractive. The result is a pretty exemplary popcorn movie.”(2) Glenn Kenny also said “I’m not sure whether it was the editing or my own willing suspension of disbelief but the CGI-manufactured scenes of mass destruction are among the most realistic in this mode I’ve ever seen.” (2) On rottentomatoes.com they show that over 50% of people that have watched this movie liked it, but on their tomatometer of pro reviewers, only 50% of them liked it.
The movie San Andreas is a super fun movie with a great plot and amazing acting. I definitely enjoyed my time watching this. Anyone who loves action and destruction movies
would without a doubt enjoy thisfilm, so go call up your old friends, have a movie night and
watch San Andreas.
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