San Andreas

San Andreas

Rating 6.5 out of 10

With this movie you get what you see in the trailer.  A disaster movie that reminds of the old Earthquake or Towering Inferno movies of the 70s with much better special effects.  You don't expect too much just huge buildings falling right and left and Duane "the Rock" Johnson's huge biceps flexing.  This movie delivers for what it aims for.  Campy action and over the top acting.

Ray Gaines (Johnson) is an ace helicopter pilot on a search and rescue team outside Los Angeles.  Everyone has heard of the dreaded San Andreas fault that runs along the spine of California and how one way the big one would destroy everything.  That time has finally come and it looks like San Francisco is going to get the worst of it.  That's bad for the residents of San Fran but also bad for Ray Gaines as his daughter is there and he must save her.  After he pulls is soon to be ex-wife off the top of a tall building as it's falling during one of the many earthquakes they head North to San Francisco to get their daughter.  It's all action from there.

This movie is entertaining.  You know what you are expecting.  You will get that and not a penny more.