Review – San Andreas

Dwayne Johnson action movies deserve room to be at least a little stupid, but this one goes well beyond reasonable leeway. My favorite bit of completely unnecessary dumbness was the repeated insistence that the catastrophic destruction of Los Angeles and San Francisco might somehow have been averted if only the powers-that-be had listened to a small cadre of scientists (led by the perpetually-annoying Paul Giamatti). Exactly how a device that detects major quakes a few minutes before they occur would have saved the entire West Coast … well, the whole movie was pretty much like that. Still, I saw it in the company of an old friend who enjoys watching movies about LA being demolished, so on that point at least mission accomplished. Mildly amusing