{"id":59,"date":"2017-05-06T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/2017\/05\/06\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewssan-andreas-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2017-05-06T07:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:27:15","slug":"httptheblurb-com-aureviewssan-andreas-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/httptheblurb-com-aureviewssan-andreas-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"San Andreas – movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a while since we last had a full-scale disaster movie (think Armaggedon, Independence Day<\/i>), so why not a homegrown product (it was shot on the Gold Coast) starring the man-mountain The Rock?<\/p>\n

\"San-Andreas-01\"Lawrence (Paul Giamatti) is a seismologist with a nose for big earthquakes and one is about to hit the USA between Los Angeles and San Francisco, turning both cities into disaster zones. Ray (Dwayne Johnson) is a brave search and rescue pilot estranged from his wife Emma (Carla Gugino \u2013 Night at the Museum<\/i>). The pair lost a daughter who drowned, something Ray didn\u2019t deal with well. But they have another gorgeous daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario – Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters<\/i>), who has grown up to be the apple of daddy\u2019s eye. Now Ray\u2019s soon to be ex-wife is about to move in with the wealthy new man in her life when all hell breaks lose.<\/p>\n

Ray manages to find all manner of craft \u2013 a helicopter, light plane, SUV and jet boat \u2013 in a life and death struggle to try to rescue his wife and daughter as the world around them crumbles. Incidentally, through adversity Balke finds herself paired up with a charming English lad, who has an equally polite and inquisitive younger brother. And our very own Kylie (Minogue, that is) has a cameo role as Emma\u2019s new beau\u2019s bitchy sister.<\/p>\n

Like so much of this kind of material, San Andreas<\/i> plays to type. Mind you, I couldn\u2019t think of anyone better to play the \u201che\u201d man in such horrendous circumstances than Johnson. He is your quintessential square jawed, Chesty Bonds action hero, who knows the right thing to do and say when the chips are down. And, naturally, as skyscrapers are falling all around them, Ray succeeds in maneuvering through the mayhem by the skin of his teeth. While not quite managing to leap tall buildings, his ability to adeptly steer a speed boat knows no bounds when it comes to outrunning a tsunami. Somehow, with debris scattered everywhere and more buildings collapsing, there is always a path through for the vessel, as his mission to rescue his daughter becomes the prime focus on his life. I almost forgot to mention, Johnson wouldn\u2019t be The Rock were he not to rescue a few dozen others along the way who, but for him, would have been flattened.<\/p>\n