Reviews: "The Rift of San Andreas." Reviews of film critics, a short story and the main characters of the film

Reviews and reviews of the film "The Rift of San Andreas" first appeared in May 2015 - then it was the premiere of this tape, shot in the genre of disaster. Who played the main roles in the film Brad Peyton and what can be interesting to the viewer of the plot of the picture?

The creators of the film

Reviews "The Rift of San Andreas" got mixed, despite the big box office. This is not surprising, because the director of this film - Brad Peyton - so far has not distinguished himself by any of his work.

For a long time, Peyton shot short films, and in 2006 he switched to serials ("Monsters Unattended", "The Case of Doyle"). In 2010, Brad still pummeled money from an Australian film company for the implementation of his project - the family film "Cats against dogs." But then this film received exactly equal positive and negative reviews. In 2012, the screenshots of the picture "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" with Dwayne Johnson in the title role. Critics took coldly the next creation of Peyton, but at the box office the film raised $ 335 million. What created favorable mail for the launch of the next project: the film company Worner Bros. Agreed to finance the film-catastrophe "The Rift of San Andreas".

Peyton called Steve Yedlin, who made the movie Telekinesis, and presumably would shoot Star Wars. Episode 8 ». But the script worked on Carlton Cuse, who previously wrote the script only to the series ("Staying Alive", "Model Batesov").

Short story

What is the story about the Rift of San Andreas? Reviews of the film say that in the center of the plot, another American hero - a helicopter pilot Raymond Gates. When there is a serious tectonic shift in the San Andreas area , he is just in the air and manages to save his wife from the roof of the house until Los Angeles is completely destroyed.

The same fate threatens and San Francisco, and Raymond worries that his daughter will die (she just went there to go to college). The pilot on his fire helicopter rushes to rescue his own child. Here, according to the law of the genre, his car refuses to fly, so he incidentally steals several modes of transport, trying to get to San Francisco.

The earthquake provokes a huge tsunami, which covers the city. But Raymond transplanted to the boat and still finds his daughter on top of one of the skyscrapers.

What actor's game received feedback? "The Rift of San Andreas": the main characters of the film

The role of the father-hero went to an American of Polynesian origin - Duane Johnson. His play in this film earned positive reviews: "The San Andreas Fault" was unique for the actor in that the director made him do all the tricks on his own. That is, if the viewer sees at the beginning of the film, as Dwayne descends down the cable to the rock, he must know that from the beginning to the end Johnson did it himself.

There is nothing to be surprised at, because the movie star "The Mummy Returns", "The Scorpion King" and "The Amazon Treasure" is in fact a professional athlete: true, not a climber, but a wrestler. Duane became an eight-time champion in wrestling and was used to playing only "cool" guys in the movie.

His partner in the film, Carla Gugino, is a less distinguished person. In sports, she did not excel, but she played in the movie "The Life of this guy" with Leo di Caprio, as well as in the movie "Michael" with John Travolta.

Also in the film you can see Alexander Daddario ("Percy Jackson and the sea of monsters") and even the singer Kylie Minogue.

Premiere and fees

Reviews "The Rift of San Andreas" got controversial, but the fees in the world's cinemas amounted to 473 million dollars. And this is with the cost of shooting at 110 million.

The first with the film-disaster of Brad Peyton got acquainted with Great Britain, and it happened on May 21, 2015. On May 27, the picture was seen by Belgium, Oman, France and Jamaica. Russia let the tape on hire on May 28.

"The Rift of San Andreas": comments, comments

So, what did critics dislike about the film "The Rift of San Andreas"? Recently, film critics are increasingly outraged by the fact that filmmakers are trying to replace special effects in the film with everything: a fascinating story, a good actors' play and the humanity of film art in general. This also applies to the tape "The Rift of San Andreas".

Reviews of the film, left by critics, make it clear to the viewer that they may not include this picture, if they hope to see on the screen even a drop of sincere feelings or unusual twists of the plot. Everything in this action is clear and understandable from the very beginning: here are special effects for 110 million, look and do not demand anything more. Dwayne Johnson does a good job of his role, but when you do not doubt for a moment that a superpapa will save his daughter, you want to turn off the film and do more interesting things.

In a word, lovers of large-scale special effects and frightening pictures, no doubt, it is worth looking at the "Rift of San Andreas". Actually, only thanks to such fans of computer graphics film and raised a lot of money in the box office. To all the rest who like unpredictable and fascinating cinema, it is better to find another tape for leisure.