Cinema: San Andreas

Title: San Andreas (2015)

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario

Rating: 3/5 or 6/10

A slightly above average disaster movie. The CGI was excellent and the characters very lovable, Ryan and Em, Blake, Ben and Ollie. There were fewer characters and fewer plotlines there than I'm used to in disaster movies, which I liked, but there was also nothing really original there, nothing that I haven't seen in other movies a dozen times over.

What really shone for me was Alexandra Daddario's character, Blake, and the trek she underwent with Ben and Ollie. Blake was brave and smart and, what was most important, knowledgeable. She knew what to do in a situation like that and she used her knowledge in the best way possible. And Ben and Ollie, the writers didn't make them any less... something, any less brave or smart to make Blake shine, they didn't pull them down to build her up, no, they were just as brave as she was - they just didn't possess the necessary knowledge. That's the right way to write a female character!

To sum it up, it was good to see it in the cinema, but it's nothing ground-breaking.