As timely as today's headlines, with the strong one in Nepal and the almost everyday recurring ones in places surrounding the Pacific Ring of Fire, San Andreas is an action packed/CGI effects heavy film that's notches above recently released natural disaster flicks such as The Perfect Storm and 2012. It stars Dwayne Johnson as Ray, a rescue chopper pilot whose passion to his job is marred when his wife Emma (Carla Gugino) moved out of their place with their daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario) and asking for a divorce to marry a rich real estate billionaire Daniel Reddick (Ioan Gruffudd)...then tremors are felt, first in the Hoover Dam area near Las Vegas were there weren't any known fault lines then it moves to California where the infamous fault is located hence the movie title.
San Andreas works primarily because the film simply focuses on Ray's family and people close to them. Despite having a built fit for an action hero, most will sympathize with Johnson's character because of his wife's new love. Unlike his previous characters and his persona as The Rock, people can easily relate to his predicament. In a parallel story in the movie, Paul Giamatti plays a noted earthquake expert who foresaw the catastrophe with the help of his fellow worker who was killed in action. His character is our guide and as a moviegoer, I also learned something about quakes thru him.
The effects, most specifically the ones in San Francisco, quite gave me a scare because I walked and spent sometime on those places AT&T Park to be specific and based on experts analysis, it really could happen in real life. San Andreas might just be now a movie but it also gave us ample warning to be ready and prepared.
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