Reviews for this film from our members:
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Tras décadas a tortazos en el ring y la pantalla grande, Dwayne Johnson se enfrenta a un enemigo aún mayor: la ira de la Naturaleza. Un mostrenco veraniego intrascendente pero ruidoso, porno para terroristas urbanos. Poneos a salvo.
- Steve Biodrowski @ Hollywood Gothique
- Excerpt: All forward momentum and non-stop action, but with enough narrative focus to avoid letting the calamity totally engulf the picture.
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A pesar del carisma de Swayne Johnson, “Terremoto: la falla de San Andrés” no pasa de ser una película más, del montón, del subgénero del cine de desastres naturales.
- Bill Clark @ From The Balcony
- Excerpt: San Andreas is lightweight, crowd-pleasing summer entertainment that knows its place and delivers the goods.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: seems to have its tongue firmly planted in cheek, screenwriter Carlton Cuse’s take…hitting every genre cliche so relentlessly it all adds up to preposterous entertainment.
- Jim Dixon @ Examiner.com
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: San Andreas fulfills its promise of providing massive quantities of disaster. Ultimately, though, we’re left wondering if that alone is a promise worth keeping.
- Hugo Gomes @ Cinematograficamente Falando … [Portuguese]
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Scary disaster movie, revealing spectacular devastation along the California coastline…
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: I wouldn’t say the picture was forgettable because that would have been a blessing. San Andreas is so hopelessly bad, I just can’t stop thinking about its miserableness.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Cornball disaster-porn melodrama… in 3D! Dumb, insulting, and bloodless. It’s Hollywood’s subconscious death wish brought to life, in more ways than one.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: The Rock uses earthquakes to save his family and his marriage; pure summer popcorn fun
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: It may be big, loud, and pretty dumb, but San Andreas is a fun (albeit fleeting) piece of summer blockbuster escapism.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: San Andreas is patently ridiculous and indefensibly dumb. It’s also a fun entertainment in a check-your-brain-at-the-door, you-get-what-you-pay-for kind of way.
- Greg Klymkiw @ The Film Corner
- Excerpt: Yes, we get to see mega-destruction of property, but frankly, the movie is lacking the kind of super-delightful up-close-and-personal deaths of live humans which, of course, one demands from a disaster movie.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Dan Lybarger @ KCActive.com
- Excerpt: While director Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island) can make cinematic disasters that make the expense of 3D glasses less unreasonable, he and screenwriter Carlton Cuse (Bates Motel, Lost) aren’t nearly as successful at creating believable people to occupy the ruins.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: There are no surprises to be had here, no shades of grey, but “San Andreas” is epic and over the top and, at its best, a rocking good time of a popcorn disaster flick.
- Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: Why isn’t San Andreas more fun? It’s hard to put a finger on exactly why but, for all its CGI bells and whistles, death, destruction and general gargantuan catastrophes, it never feels real.
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: Predictable… to a fault.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: The only thing that could save San Andreas is a real-life earthquake that shakes the theatre, collapses the ceiling, and turns moviegoers into raspberry jam.
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: Hundreds of thousands (millions?) die, we can assume, but let’s not worry about those nameless, faceless souls – the film rarely stops to consider the poor saps about to meet their fates, and the PG-13 experience features no bodies or bloodshed throughout all the carnage.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: I appreciate San Andreas because at the very base level, gives me what I want. Last week I saw Poltergeist in which I didn’t see any ghosts; this week at least I got the earthquake that I paid for. That’s progress, I suppose.
- Diego Salgado @ Cine para Leer [Spanish]
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: An unabashed throwback to the simple-minded disaster movies of decades ago…[and] a ho-hum affair.
- Sarah Ward @ artsHub
- Ron Wilkinson @ Monsters and Critics
- Excerpt: The lack of acting and screenplay is hardly a bump in the road for this hyperventilating 3D quake-a-palooza.
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