10.0 Earthquake

Oh man! where do I start! Fantastic Movie! I would vote this as movie of the year! Great Direction, Great Acting, Great Special Effects! It looked so real! I will have to watch this move again and again! Great Family movie! Why did this not get better advertisement!!???? If you dont watch this movie then you are missing out one one of the most historical movies of all time! I was on the edge of my seat every second of this film! This is what most films should be like! Since Amazon took off my original review of it being the worst move of all time...I'm using reverse psychology to hopefully pursue you NOT to watch this movie! I have no idea why it was not published...It was my honest opinion of the movie as being poorly executed script wise. Hopefully this review wont get removed?

HEY PRIME. PLEASE MAKE SEEING YOUR PREVIEWS AN OPTION SETTING SO I CAN STOP THEM FOREVER!1 stars: Couldn't watch more than 15 minutes. Unwatchable, or language not as described.1.5 stars: Just started it to get if off my, "movies we think you'll like", list permanently.2 stars: Jumped my way to the end for the ending. Unwatchable, but interested in how this turd ended.2.5 stars: I fell asleep, or closed my eyes for most of it.3 stars: Watched it all, but not happy about it. Nothing better to do.4 stars: I watched it, liked it well enough. Would never watch it again.5 stars: Great moving picture show! I'll watch it again, and maybe again in a few years.

It is NOT politically correct-- in a deep way that people who are politically incorrect will recognize. ​I loved that amongst all the woke baloney usually infused into movies.I Iove earthquake movies for some odd reason. I saw the bad reviews but turned it on anyway because I have low standards for earthquake movies. (The only one I've really hated recently was San Andreas *gag*) And I found it simply GREAT FUN with all the unlikely earthquake action I wanted. I admit some of it was unlikely but I didn't come here for realism... honestly I'm most offended about the hunter who dropped his gun. The path of that bullet was unlikely and I saw it coming! But it was made up for by the later dog poop detail :-)The characters that I found myself wishing CAN'T HE JUST DIE ALREADY went ahead and died. Yay. And then the ending was exactly, completely the way I wished it would be, with another dollop of funniness on top of a catastrophe!

While it was entertaining, which I enjoyed, it wasn't very realistic. The acting wasn't as good (fake screams and saying run, run, run to excess instead of just running) and the effects didn't seem real. I was surprised as Henry Ian Cusick is usually in excellent movies. Nonetheless, it was a great escape from the doldrums of life and kept my attention.

This was so bad. I kept it on while I did other things. The plot was unrealistic, the science was horrible, the characters were one-dimensional and stereotypic. The disagreeable characters all managed to die horribly, though, leaving only the good guys. Apparently, the casting director also felt that hiring actors to pay stereotypes was good: the jock jerk, the nasty high school horny kid, the vapid teenage girl, the USGS scientist who comes off as kooky, the bad fracking man with no conscience (until the end where he dies, thankfully) . . Kind of. As things went on and fires raged in parts of the city, and sinkholes and giant cracks formed, and the ground gave way and a bunch of people in a hot tub were never seen again, it seemed that no one else in the city was paying attention. Then there was the old trope of Los Angeles falling into the ocean. There was a cute dog, though. There was just no "there" there.

This is definitely one of those "don't overthink it" movies. That said, not the disaster of a film I was expecting. The title is a bit misleading as the "big one" that it implies never shows up. Honestly while the movie is not a comedy, the small amounts of comedy in the movie are one of the things that work best. On the flip side some of the dramatic moments really don't work, and come across as humorous when they are meant to be serious. Not really what I would call high cinema, but a decent enough movie to watch if you have some time to kill. Just don't expect more from it than it can deliver. The characters are pretty two-dimensional. For most of them you get little to no sense what kind of people they would be outside the context of the movie. Aside from its sprinkling of comedy the pacing is done very well making for an efficient watch.In the end, 3/5. Not great enough to make me want to sing its praises. Not so bad that I feel the need to hang a warning label on it.

There may be a "SPOILER" here but I LOVE that the "bad guys" get their due, and the "Good guys" get out, for the most part unscathed. This story is a bit predictable - although, still it's own movie!! The writing is FUN, yet not contrived - as is the acting. I really don't want to give anything else away. In summation - Great characters, great writing, great acting - average special effects - but worth every minute of your time. Two Thumbs UP!

Mildly entertaining, but 3/4 of the way through I was clicking the 10 seconds forward button non-stop. Earthquake in Los Angles? Believable. But all the rest was ridiculous. Every character was dumb, they were constantly screaming at each other for no particular reason, and most male characters were verbally and physically abusive to everyone around them. So you were rooting for everyone to die. Made up a bunch of science stuff to sound impressive, so no one can follow the plot. So many situations that are improbable -- if they only had one of those scenes sure, but the entire movie was made of them. It's impossible to suspend disbelief every scene for something different. If you like Sharknado, you might like this. What's sad is that I think the movie is actually trying to be serious. Visual effects were decent at least.