San Andreas is the most recent disaster movie that Hollywood
has churned out. Dwayne Johnson (we don’t still need to call him the Rock, do
we?) stars as Ray Gaines, a Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter rescue
pilot. Ray is celebrated as being one of
the most outstanding rescue operators with over 200 successful operations. We
find out that Ray is in the process of divorcing his wife Emma (Carla Gugino)
who has begun a new relationship with a wealthy architect named Daniel (Ioan
Gruffudd). Ray and Emma remain in Los
Angeles while their daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario), goes to San Francisco
with Daniel. Blake meets a pair of kind
brothers named Ben (Hugo Johnstone-Burt) and Ollie (Art Parkinson) while in
Daniel’s San Francisco office.
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| The effects used for this movie are gorgeous. Who knew destruction could be beautiful? Deidara? |
While they all go about their lives, a seismologist
professor named Lawrence (Paul Giamatti) discovers a trend of magnetic spikes
before earthquakes which allows him to predict the occurrences, but not before
the Hoover Dam collapses in a huge earthquake. Lawrence then warns that
California will be hit by huge earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault. And so the stage is set for the action of San
Andreas.
