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U/A (INDIA)
2015
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Positive Reviews
103
Negative reviews
91
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3.0
Its hard to appreciate San Andreas as much more than a series of special effects vistas: impeccably detailed, completely plastic.
Av Club
4.5
And that small distinctionreally the thin line between Irwin Allens camp 1970s disaster classics (which always lived a hairs breadth away from self pa ..
Den Of Geek
2.0
And San Andreas, written by Losts Carlton Cuse, isnt very interested in messing with that formula.
EW
3.8
The action is bracing, Johnsons performance is solid and, within its extremely narrow parameters, entirely convincing, and Gugino and Daddario are bot ..
Rogerebert
1.5
Well aware that it isnt the science thats bringing butts into the seats, director Peyton makes the most of this first cataclysm.
Variety
3.0
San Andreas is the epitome of a summer blockbuster hollow and empty on the inside, but for all the script problems, theres plenty of eye popping indus ..
We Got This Covered
4.5
Fear not: Dwayne Johnson is no Ed Harris; hes not even Charlton Heston.)
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Campy but never campy enough and far too numbingly artificial to ever drum up any real suspense or sense of awe, the film has a scale thats squandered ..
Time Out
2.0
It illustrates once again the movie law that the bigger the apocalypse, the less it means.
The Guardian
3.0
Here is a fantastically silly spectacular about San Francisco collapsing into the juddering and shuddering San Andreas fault.
The Guardian
1.9
In Brad Peytons San Andreas, the biggest earthquake in recorded history is less natural disaster than divorce negotiation process.
2.5
Even Dwayne Johnson, that force of cinematic nature and rock ribbed charisma, doesnt have enough charm to dig this mess of a movie out of the rubble o ..
1.5
The very earnest human drama fits awkwardly into the action and isnt helped by some unconvincing performances and weak dialogue.
Screen Daily
4.5
Johnson has a unique set of talents, and I admire that he doesnt want to be pigeonholed as a strongman who can only inflict violence on others.
Collider
4.5
Americans dont roll over, not even when theyre hit by hundred foot walls of water.
Vulture
4.5
Together with cinematographer Steve Yedlin and VFX supervisor Colin Strause, director Brad Peyton achieves a persuasive blending of practical shots an ..
The Hollywood Reporter
1.0
Fear not: Dwayne Johnson is no Ed Harris; hes not even Charlton Heston.)
1.5
Its hard not to shrug, stifle a yawn and reach for the popcorn when the Golden Gate Bridge once again buckles and sways and drops vehicles into the ba ..
The New York Times
3.1
Its not enough that theres a massive earthquakethe skyscraper youre standing on collapses beneath you.
Paste Magazine
3.8
And thats actually a pretty good barometer for how inventive this movie is.
IGN
3.0
The film frames like a saviour, and bathes him in so much morning sunlight you have to squint, but as he insists to the news crew on board: Im just do ..
Telegraph
1.5
And, while youre at it, spare some good wishes for the viewers of San Andreas.
3.8
But when youre on the roof of a building thats collapsing, its better to know somebody who flies a helicopter.
San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
Even as a popcorn flick, this film feels more like a disaster of a movie than a movie about a disaster.
The Young Folks
2.0
If you crave Emmerich esque disaster porn with a mega body count, theres plenty here to OMG at. But when it comes to character depth or plotting, San ..
2.0
It says something that even the effortless charm and likability of Dwayne Johnson cant redeem the character.
Cinema Blend
3.0
Obviously, youre not going to walk into SAN ANDREAS expecting an especially inspired or sophisticated piece of entertainment.
JoBlo
2.5
It may be big, loud, and pretty dumb, but San Andreas is a fun (albeit fleeting) piece of summer blockbuster escapism.
Screen Rant
2.5
Between its steroidic CGI and emotionally vacant plot line, the movie is all flex, no muscle.
The Globe And Mail
3.0
One can fault the film for lacking inventiveness, but in terms of its entertainment quotient, its an enthralling treat for those who have the appetite ..
3.0
One can fault the film for lacking inventiveness, but in terms of its entertainment quotient, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s an enthralling treat for those who ..
2.0
An unabashed throwback to the simple minded disaster movies of decades ago... a ho hum affair.
One Guys Opinion
3.1
But San Andreas is a well executed reminder of why we dont need to fret over the zombie apocalypse when there are plenty of things Mother Earth can th ..
Rogers Movie Nation
2.5
Paul Giamatti is perfectly cast as the rumpled scientist and his scenes are by far the most interesting. It causes one to wonder if San Andreas might ..
ReelViews
2.0
Its hokey at times, definitely too long for such a thin premise, but San Andreas is never jokey, displaying an endearing determination to take catastr ..
Blu Ray
0.5
My resistance to summer blockbusters crumbled like a collapsing skyscraper in the face of this big, loud, exuberantly destructive movie.
Chicago Reader
2.5
San Andreas fulfills its promise of providing massive quantities of disaster.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
It doesnt take a fortune teller to predict how all this will pan out.
2.5
The cringeworthy dialogue and unmoving earnestness are the biggest disasters in this mostly forgettable action flick
Usa Today
3.1
And though its always a pleasure to see Paul Giamatti, his seismologist doesnt seem to have any real purpose here other than to warn others of impendi ..
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Another genre, another set of shameless clichs. San Andreas is, nevertheless, a much more enjoyable film.
The Times
2.0
It doesnt bode well when a movie that will sink or swim entirely on its CGI technology cant even manage a convincingly Photoshopped family portrait.
The Times
2.0
I was in the mood for a big, dumb disaster movie when I saw this, and this one delivers on both counts. A lot of time is spent on feelings and relatio ..
Lariat
3.0
You can make a smart, logical disaster movie thats also really fun (probably; I cant think of any off the top of my head), but thats not San Andreas.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
Say what you will, the movie is critic proof, and even the most cynical will have to admit it delivers what you bought your ticket to see.
News Review
3.0
Nothing is subtle, and Ioan Gruffudds cowardly tycoon is a copy of Richard Chamberlains engineer from The Towering Inferno, but Johnson, a human edifi ..
Radio Times
4.5
If youre looking for anything deeper than that, however, you might consider shaking, rattling and rolling yourself into another theater.
Screen It
3.0
When the earthquake hits and communications go down, digital technology isnt much help.
Independent
1.9
As for the rest of humanity Frankly, the movie doesnt give a damn.
Rolling Stone
2.0
What Johnson does best, probably better than anyone else right now, is to draw attention to the absurdity, even the impossibility of himself. In a mov ..
Pop Matters
1.5
Thankfully, the action set pieces are exciting enough, and come at such a successive clip Oh, s t may be the films most repeated line of dialogue that ..
The Wrap
2.5
These characters are so humorless and lifeless that we care less about them than about the doomed buildings in the background.
News Day
2.0
The CGI effects in this film, directed by Brad Peyton, are quite remarkable and help take ones mind off the cornball disaster brings families together ..
Cs Monitor
1.9
But then, this is what amounts to The Love Boat of disaster movies.
New York Post
2.0
This particular disaster film is in shambles and it seems even The Rock cannot rescue it.
Hindustan Times
3.8
Earthquakes hit California, and The Rock teams up with his estranged wife to save their daughter. Thats pretty much it, and thats all there really nee ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.5
Really, thats about all there is to say about San Andreas, the brain rattling disaster of a disaster film directed by Brad Peyton and starring Dwayne ..
Az Central
2.5
A fair amount of intelligence has gone into San Andreas but not into the extremely corny dialogue, which seems designed to make the audience groan.
Smh
3.0
Characterization is largely nonexistent (because its unnecessary), perfunctory (Paul Giamattis egghead seismologist, who mostly just says brainy sound ..
Mountain X
4.5
Every action hero needs a failed or foundering marriage unless hes a widower.)
Npr
1.5
In fact, theres plenty more Im not even gonna go near because I dont want to think about how dumb it is.
3.1
PG Disaster film San Andreas thunderously demonstrates the late Roger Eberts maxim about movies being an empathy generating machine.
Toronto Star
3.1
its disaster spectacle and sense of moral reckoning is hung on exactly the same narrative backbone as Emmerichs world shattering 2012
Q Network
3.0
The characters including Ioan Gruffudd, playing a slimy propetry developer might be a trifle two dimensional, but San Francisco has never collapsed so ..
Daily Mail
4.5
I dont begrudge anyone their desire to melt their brain with this bullshit extravaganza, and dont begrudge Dwayne Johnson his exorbitant salary.
Salon
4.0
But there is no confusing real life tragedy with what is hugely entertaining, sensational tosh, the sort of thing moving pictures were made for.
Flim List
2.0
If youre looking for depth, better opt for watching San Andreas in 3D because thats the only way youll get any.
Eye For Film
4.5
As far as disaster movies go, they dont come much better than this: heart stopping action with ginormous stunts and a story that touches your heart. I ..
3.5
They incorporate more than 1300 visual effects, as Hoover Dam crumbles, freeways collapse, bridges break, and a tsunami engulfs San Franciscos citysca ..
Susang Ranger
2.0
If you are going to sell audiences a disaster movie starring The Rock, its probably not wise to have him flying a helicopter doing nothing for the maj ..
Flickering Myth
3.0
Over the top, ridiculous, but an acceptable popcorn movie thanks to an amiable cast led by Dwayne Johnson
Boston Herald
4.5
If only Nepal wasnt a recent memory, one could almost ignore the piling death count.
The New Indian Express
4.0
It is relentlessly over the top and relentlessly, ridiculously fun.
Express
2.0
And thats San Andreas downfall: theres no mystery to how it plays out.
The Film Stage
3.1
I enjoyed large chunks of San Andreas, largely because the actors give it a full load of sincerity, and theres some bizarrely effective comic relief t ..
Chicago Tribune
4.5
For all the unabashed cliches and straight faced silliness delivered by Johnson, Paul Giamatti, and their generally capable castmates, theyre doing so ..
Boston Globe
2.0
Not the highest praise to say it reinvigorates the genre when the genre is dumb Roland Emmerich movie, but it turns out, watching The Rocks muscles ge ..
Uproxx
3.0
Is there anything Dwayne Johnsons presence doesnt make better (My friends who like wrestling tell me the answer is wrestling.
Uproxx
2.0
That philosophy applies very nicely to the modern disaster movie.
The Irish Times
2.0
You already know whats going to happen, but at least you get to watch Johnson do it.
Blogs Indie Wire
2.0
That kind of mushy storytelling characterizes moronic disaster movie San Andreas, in which California is nearly destroyed by earthquakes but the human ..
Las Vegas Weekly
4.5
As Ray, Johnson is intensely committed to his heros journey while making the case that hes as stolid and dependable a national treasure as Mount Rushm ..
The Atlantic
1.5
You think From a massive chaos perspective, Director Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) delivers an impressive property damage.
Lyles Movie Files
0.5
Because every character in San Andreas is clearly, obviously safe from harm theres no sense of danger.
Birth Movies Death
2.0
By that I mean a movie that actually depicts disasters with the attention of visual detail and psychological conviction of a good war movie.
Deccan Chronicle
4.0
Then he gets the call theres been an earthquake, hes needed for duty.
Standard
4.0
Like a tsunami, the special effects are omnipresent and overwhelm the weak story line. They are absolutely, definitely worth the price of admission, r ..
Tony Medley
2.0
By land, by sea or by air, San Andreas is a movie that is out to entertain you and deliver a lot of bang for your buck, and gosh darn if it doesnt del ..
Detroit News
2.0
But thats par for the course in a movie thats so ridiculous, it makes Roland Emmerichs 2012 seem almost sane and thats saying something considering ho ..
2.5
To paraphrase trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth in The Dark Knight: some people just want to watch the world burn.
Groucho Reviews
3.1
The paint by numbers screenplay (by Lost scribe Carlton Cuse) doesnt help.
Aisle Seat
0.5
he film never convinces us that these people exist for any reason other than generic stand ins to be threatened so that we arent merely watching two h ..
Forbes
3.0
I can (and will) nitpick storytelling choices and character development, but those merely wanting Look out, earthquake! will get their moneys worth.
Forbes
2.0
The CG heavy affair is staged with so much volume and grit that it makes for a genuinely distressing experience, and theres really nothing to the film ..
Consequence Of Sound
2.5
But San Andreas isnt satisfied with being just another treat on the menu.
Vox
3.0
Yet again, hes the star of the show, proving himself to be such a dependable leading man.
Hey U Guys
2.0
San Andreas does not shake you all night long, and thats one of its few virtues.
Oregon Live
3.0
There are things on screen worth looking at, so if that sums up your criteria for a theater going experience then youre in luck.
Film School Rejects
4.5
Johnson continues to impress with his roles. He tackles this film head on with a wry smile.
Film Ink
3.0
So, I suppose, I would recommend this movie, provided you know exactly what youre getting yourself into.
Ner Dist
2.5
Instead of grasping believable forms of chaos and hysteria from frantic survivors, like the oftentimes depressingly dark immoralities witnessed in zom ..
2.0
In the face of consuming disaster, we dont need a superhuman jock.
La Weekly
2.0
Its all done without the kind of nudge wink self aware humour that makes Roland Emmerichs disaster oeuvre something of a guilty pleasure.
Digital Spy
2.0
Less a Rock buster than a quakenbake reheat of post Emmerich basics. The casts likeable work falls right through the script holes.
Games Radar
3.0
If youre caught in a movie between a rock and a hard place, choose the Rock every time.
Tamp A Bay
3.5
Has a massive heart and makes the right choices at the right moments, and manages to skilfully avoid the many inherent pitfalls with this sort of mate ..
Abc
2.0
Think big action, cheesy dialogue, natural disasters and expensive special effects and youve got a good idea of what to expect.
Nz Herald
3.1
San Andreas delivers a collection of harrowing set pieces where the sets inevitably go to pieces.
Kansas City
3.1
San Andreas is an action film that hits viewers over the head. Again and again. But isnt that exactly why youd want to go see it
Stl Today
2.0
Where do you go from there An exploding tidal wave At this point, if your disaster movie isnt eradicating a large portion of the globe, dont even wast ..
Screen Crush
2.5
Despite the filmmakers stated goal to recreate a classic disaster epic like The Poseidon Adventure (1972) or Earthquake (1974), this film doesnt bothe ..
Contact Music
4.5
An entertainment as stupid as it is splendid, which never wanes in almost two hours of footage.
1.5
This film doesnt need a director, which is fortunate because it has Brad Peyton..disaster porn..a listless, heaving mess of a film.
Hollywood And Fine
2.0
Whod have thought that the demise of several cities full of unnamed people would act as a perverse sort of marriage counselling for a couple in nuptia ..
The Arts Desk
1.5
San Andreas changes all too quickly from satisfyingly foolish to dismayingly dumb to genuinely stupid.
Wsj
3.0
Still, for all its hyperbole, SAN ANDREAS is a fun and nail biting action adventure flick well worth the effort to see it on the big screen.
Killer Movie Reviews
3.0
This is a film that knows what it is and makes no excuses, happily owning its more cringe worthy moments while standing proud by its action spectacle.
Matts Movie Reviews
2.0
Its as dumb as can be, but its also the epicenter of the sort of thrills thatll have you shouting geo whiz!
Patriot Ledger
2.5
Exactly the movie you suppose it to be, except in one, absolutely crucial regard: its weirdly allergic to fun.
Antagony & Ecstasy
3.8
As disaster epics go, San Andreas works. ... Its not genius filmmaking, but its undemandingly entertaining.
Sltrib
1.9
If you cant see where this is all going, youve likely never been in a movie theater before.
4.5
And thats actually a pretty good barometer for how inventive this movie is.
Ign
2.0
We need to be reminded that hes a nice guy, remember Thats not the focus though.
The Film Pie
3.1
...dispenses with ridiculous complications like those employed in 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow. This is a pure popcorn flick sanitized for family v ..
Movie Crypt
2.5
And that attitude makes San Andreas feel unusually ghoulish, whether its rushing doomed, anonymous people through a city thats become a morbid funhous ..
The Dissolve
2.5
It doesnt nearly reach the glorious action heights of Mad Max: Fury Road, but is gentle enough an experience that an entire family can enjoy..As long ..
Movie Web
2.5
Theres almost no intentional comedy that pays off, and worse, theres less emotional investment into anyone whos dying.
Hollywood Chicago
1.5
Even a minor quake can change a person, leaving behind an uneasiness that isnt quick to leave.
Cinemix Tape
3.0
The end result might be a melange of scenes taken from other films, but in a summer season groaning with sci fi and superhero sequels, this survival e ..
Straits Times
2.0
Sure, this has spectacular CGI generated special effects, but a great disaster movie needs some credible people to make us care.
Dead Line
2.0
He doesnt care about anyone else, just as the film itself doesnt think anything of having one of the highest body counts in movie history, and at a PG ..
Metro New York
3.0
San Andreas is a popcorn munching, soda pop slurping feast of thrilling silliness.
One Room With A View
3.1
Ray becomes trapped in some of the cheesiest clichs ever to grace a disaster movie.
Daily Herald
1.0
You spend the entire movie willing the earth to open up beneath their characters feet and swallow them for the good of humankind.
The Shiz Nit
3.1
As for the story line, there are faults and cracks aplenty. But San Andreas does know where its epicenter must be: overdone, loud, anything but realis ..
Mercury News
0.5
Summers upon us, and you could do worse than watch the undeniably appealing Johnson try to save the day while uttering the silliest dialogue imaginabl ..
No La
4.5
Even Carla Gugino does her best to play it straight despite being handed some shockingly hideous dialogue, although her cheer inducing if youre not de ..
Metro
1.5
Theres nothing here to shake off genre clichs or provide added marquee value.
The Ooh Tray
2.0
Sure, there is plenty of carnage, but there is more talking not the best idea when your films biggest draw is watching stuff get destroyed.
Bowling Green Daily News
1.5
It doesnt pretend to be anything other than what it isa schlock disaster movie.
Lainey Gossip
3.1
The movie nicely delivers the computer generated goods the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge is pretty spectacular and if Johnson doesnt quite mak ..
Seattle Times
1.5
It doesnt take long to reveal Daniel in San Francisco as the kind of jerk that no one will spill crocodile tears over once hes doomed.
Film Journal International ..
3.1
The 1974 disaster flick Earthquake is notorious for the casting of 52 year old Ava Gardner as 59 year old Lorne Greenes daughter, so rest assured ther ..
Clclt
3.0
San Andreas is predictable fun, but with Johnson swinging in to the rescue it also delivers plenty of muscular thrills.
1.5
Its a snooze enlivened by regular orgies of heavy stuff falling on people.
Seven Day Svt
2.5
As far as disaster movies go, San Andreas doesnt break the mould; it just settles for breaking everything else per the catastrophe movie social contra ..
Concrete Play Ground
2.0
What it lacks in true suspense it more than makes up with in flat out awesome disaster pieces.
From The Balcony
3.8
There are several requirements that must be met by any disaster movie not wanting to qualify as a disaster itself. San Andreas ticks off all the boxes ..
National Post
3.0
The Rock, you could say, is caught in a hard place here: lumbered with a powerfully stupid script and drainingly repetitive special effects. But as so ..
Sky
2.0
The plot is implausible and the situations even more preposterous.
The New Paper
2.0
But if youre looking for a challenging film, San Andreas would itself qualify as a disaster.
Winnipeg Free Press
3.0
Another green screen spectacle that demands you turn your brains off at the same time you turn off your mobile phone... a terrific popcorn time killer ..
Tiny Url
2.0
Mid movie Dwayne Johnsons Ray is told if he cant save his daughter no one can. He saves her but cant save the movie. A disaster of a disaster movie.
Tri City Herald
1.5
San Andreas is a big, mostly competently made, disaster movie that cruises on the appeal of its stars.
Trespass Mag
2.0
The rest of it is a by the numbers disaster flick featuring passable special effects, thinly drawn characters, clunky dialogue and predictable plottin ..
Daily Star
2.5
San Andreas does exactly what it set out to do: Satisfy the thrill seekers with a popcorn movie. If you want something more serious about earthquakes, ..
Toronto Sun
3.0
Its a film that keeps the viewers interested without roundly insulting them.
Daily Film Fix
4.5
Then theres Lawrence Hayes, one of Caltechs most brilliant seismic scientists.
2.5
But hey, what good is it wracking ones brain for the perfect pun when the movie, San Andreas, isnt really worth the time Its exactly what I expected i ..
Qc Times
2.5
Every attempt to develop the plot disappears amid the visual spectacle.
2.5
San Andreas isnt a remake, but its familiar enough that it might as well be.
Columbus Alive
1.5
A lot of what keeps the movie campy is that it feels oddly cheap.
Grant Land
3.0
After all, thats what these films do, whether its minor characters getting heroic moments before their deaths, or Johnsons protagonist pulling off see ..
Blog Bullz Eye
0.5
By the end a seismologist told You did good as reports come in of Californias devastation and corpse littered cities its clear just how tone deaf, con ..
Vue Weekly
2.5
San Andreas falls into the disaster porn trap of giving us only a few characters to follow while theyre otherwise surrounded by hordes of screaming de ..
Spectrum Culture
2.0
San Andreas typifies the modern Hollywood disaster movie for better and for worse. The visuals are quite something, but its all a bit hollow and there ..
Cairo 360
3.0
San Andreas works as both a disaster movie and as a stirring appreciation of disaster movies of the past.
Johnhanlon Reviews
2.0
Theres really nothing in San Andreas we havent seen before in other disaster films, with the exception of The Rock as the hero.
Toledo Blade
1.5
Combining all the ingredients of disaster films past, San Andreas strives to be a disaster movie and nothing more.
Battleship Pretension
2.0
In the end, though, its like the aftermath of any large earthquake: Youll be glad it wasnt any worse while noticing its many faults.
Review Journal
1.0
I hoped the ground would open up and gobble up whole the movie. What a disaster.
Richard Crouse
1.9
San Andreas turns horror on an unimaginable scale into light entertainment. Pass the popcorn!
Free Beacon
1.5
Having said all that, if you consider this a disaster comedy, even though it doesnt consider itself to be a spoof like the 1970s classic Airplane! ,
Battle Royale With Cheese
2.5
Sure, the CGI and the VFX are impressive, but the characters arent, and rather than trying to break any sort of new ground, the movie simply churns it ..
Ut Sandiego
2.5
Then again, they work for an audience that just wants to watch perfectly rendered earthquake destruction and doesnt mind an unbelievable, ham fisted s ..
Abc News Go
2.5
I laughed, The Rock didnt cry, I went home slightly dumber but reasonably entertained by some goofy fun action sequences, and the movie didnt overstay ..
MLive.com
3.1
Arm clenchingly tense and brutal, it is a spectacular start to a film with plenty more harrowing sucker punches on the way.
The Film File
3.8
When a foolish woman separates from the worlds manliest man in favor of a cowardly architect who builds wobbly skyscrapers that rudely scrape the heav ..
Commercial Appeal
1.5
visuals are freaky as heck. But they cant distract from a plot thats lazy and kind of offensive, barely batting an eye as thousands perish.
L.A. Biz
1.8
San Andreas just wants to show destruction and it wants you to revel in it. Thats nearly impossible given the timing of the release and the fact that ..
Flixist
3.0
He doesnt really do anything except explain the (goofy) science and tell us what were looking at.
The Mercury
2.0
The Bottom Line: Toss logic aside as it doesnt have anything to do with San Andreas.
Showbiz Junkies
3.0
Objectively, San Andreas probably shouldnt work. But you dont enjoy a roller coaster by thinking about it.
Stardem
4.5
Paul Giamatti and Will Yun Lee dont overplay their serious roles.
Dwight Brown Ink
3.0
San Andreas is entertaining on a simplest of levels but doesnt make much effort beyond that.
Alternative Lens
1.5
Disaster films might be the only optimistic social genre that remains today, and thats a sad reflection of our desperate state.
Junkee
3.5
The lack of acting and screenplay is hardly a bump in the road for this hyperventilating 3D quake a palooza.
Monsters And Critics
2.5
Unfortunately it doesnt show you very much, so its not really worth watching.
The Blus Pot
3.0
Sadly, and I cant believe Im saying this, its not dumb often enough.
The Reader (Omaha, NE)
4.5
The earth rubs its tectonic plates together real good, and even if you can see the end coming, its a helluva ride getting there.
D Cist
3.0
Unfortunately even as an absurd dopey action movie it didnt work for me.
rachelsreviews.net
1.9
San Andreas plays as if the four screenwriters shopped at the disaster movie supermarket, grabbing all the clichs they could from the clearance aisle ..
Reel Bob
3.5
But San Andreas should be judged exactly for what it is: A fast paced disaster film with engaging performances and exhilarating set pieces of destruct ..
The Hollywood Outsider
0.5
How much you enjoy the movie depends on how much mass destruction you can deal with and how much cheese you can stomach.
Daily Telegraph
1.5
This doesnt mean its a believable movie, in any sense of the word.
KCCI (Des Moines, IA)
0.5
If I called San Andreas a huge disaster. director Brad Peyton would probably take it as a compliment. Its not a compliment.
Memphis Flyer
3.0
Its untenable and goofy and never finds the serrated layers of existential malaise that made Jaws more than a gore fest, but it doesnt really matter b ..
Ex Press
2.5
The script of San Andrs is as simple and schematic as that of most disaster films, except that it is more honest: it does not need a dozen characters ..
3.0
Cue much cheesy dialogue, over the top melodrama and Johnson being, well, The Rock.
Daily Record
3.0
So schematic and simplistic in its dramatic framework as it is fantastic and amazing in its graphic and physical embodiment of the devastating effects ..
Fotogramas
1.9
For connoisseurs of unintentionally terrible movies, San Andreas delivers more than a few hearty belly laughs.
Play Boy
4.5
Most natural disaster movies are dated because the effects age so badly. San Andreas is a movie with careful CGI that will still look powerful as the ..
Denton Record-Chronicle
3.0
Propelled by a continuing series of quakes spread out over the entire state, San Andreas is all forward momentum and non stop action, but with enough ..
2.0
Per San Andreas, if the big one hits, just sit back, cross your fingers, and wish the Rock was your dad.
Zaki's Corner
3.0
On the positive side: impressive special effects. On the negative side: pretty much everything else.
Charlotte Observer
3.8
San Andreas is the kind of movie one sees with the biggest bag of popcorn available; its pure and simple escapism, fun without pretensions. Watch it i ..
Cinencuentro
3.0
The kind of movie that one watches to clear the mind after a hectic day.
Excelsior
2.8
San Andreas is just one kill away from being pretty good. If just one of the main five characters had died, it would have made a world of difference.
4.5
It doesnt hurt to drop the intellectual pose and let yourself enjoy a good old destruction movie.
Butaca Ancha
1.0
San Andreas may CGI shake the digital earth, but its really stray bits inside a hollow shell, and the Dolby howl of the sound design is just to mask t ..
Movies About
2.5
This adrenaline pumping summer blockbuster really busts some blocks, literally.
Neils Entertainment Picks
3.0
San Andreas is competently assembled and teeming with impressive spectacle but is also emotionally stale.
Chris Stuck Mann
2.5
All the moving parts are expertly juggled by director Brad Peyton and, yes, the special effects are impressive. But the disaster stuff is laid on way ..
Baltimore Magazine
2.5
Best Performance by a Semi Retired Professional Wrestler in an Irwin Allen styled Disaster Movie Thatll be the day I go back to Annandale...
La Movie Boeuf Wordpress
1.5
What truly ruins San Andreas is that a lot happens in the plot that makes no damn sense and that characters keep making decisions that are all but ind ..
Technology Tell
1.9
So ultimately, this mindless spectacle is most effective in its traces of realism.
Christy Lemire
3.0
This is a dumb movie, and he knows it, but doesnt care: Youre getting his best regardless.
The Concourse Deads
3.0
Preposterously effective special effects and almost tolerable storylines.
Spectrum (St. George, Utah ..
4.5
In particular, a collapsing car rescue shows creative build, and the fact that a tsunami is not the biggest obstacle in a tsunami sequence shows scree ..
Nerd Report
1.5
The movie is soulless, having exchanged its soul with cheap thrills and corny melodrama.
3.0
So whos to find fault with a film about faultlines, where one is simply supposed to revel in the seismocalypse and enjoy the tectonic fury
Dork Shelf
1.5
The main problem is that the film cant decide whether it wants to be a proper disaster movie or a Dwayne Johnson action vehicle.
Wow 247
2.5
Maybe if Giamatti and Johnson had switched roles, wed have had a full course instead of eye candy for disaster buffs.
Hono Lulu Pulse
3.0
When youre watching the impossibly charismatic former wrestler on screen, youll not only forgive the movie around him, youll want to throw Pulitzers, ..
4.5
Delivers what it promises: unrelenting entertainment and pure action.
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