Review of San Andreas (2015) by Michael1208 — 29 May 2015

Disaster films are expected to have the same type of story development but this replication of 2009's massive "2012" has a stronger and slightly more emotional family dynamic that helps a bit in the chemistry between the characters and their respective performances.

The film in a much smaller scale of destroying part of the US with earthquakes and tsunami, finds its success that not only Emmerich is the only director who should monopolize the genre. The outstanding quality, eye-popping CGIs, stunning visual effects of disruption, good shots of cinematography of the disruption, thrilling challenges for survival and powerful scores by Andrew Lockington are on par with "2012"; even the theory discussed in the film might seems erroneous but not entirely foolish and ridiculous.

While it repeats the same mistakes - lacking of awareness and precautions on natural disasters, the spirits and the energy of the people to help each others during hard times is one of the most inspiring element that keeps engaging with audiences which is not found in other disaster films.