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San Andreas (2015)
So wrong....yet enjoyable!
Well, what can you say about this film, the Rock is...well the Rock.
Even though as you progress through the movie you sit there and think this is corny, cheesy whatever you want to describe it as it is strangely compelling, the effects are quite good and the supporting cast are all passable, Paul Giamatti being reliably good as always and Carla Gugino is at last getting a fair crack of the whip.
The Rock plays Ray who is obviously a super helicopter pilot who has carried out hundreds of rescue missions as part of the US Army and is now carrying out super rescues in the good old USA, when major earthquakes hit along the San Andreas fault line it is up to Ray to save both his estranged wife and Daughter who is in San Francisco with a weaselly Ioan Gruffudd who is Ray's ex's new squeeze who I feel is sadly wasted in this.
There are 2 lines in the film whereby you physically cringe and wish that the Director had either made the Rock change his lines and cut the unfurling of the American Flag from the film before he delivers the second of the 2 awful lines of dialogue.
OK the script is predictable, the story line well trodden but overall it was enjoyable without being overly great or overly dire (apart from the 2 instances).
Take out your brain and sit and watch for what it is, popcorn fodder for the masses.
A Good Man (2014)
Not bad for a Seagal DTV Movie!
Look, this movie is never going to win any awards, the acting is acceptable in places, wooden (to say the least)in others but everybody does look as if they are interested which compared to some DTV films is a blessing.
Steven Seagal plays the ex Special Forces guy retired when Women & Children are killed on an spec-op he was on etc. He then flushes out his original target by assassinating various members and bag men from the Russian syndicate who are laundering money for said target, working for said syndicate is Sasha played by Victor Webster to clear his dead fathers debt, he has 2 sisters who are also being drawn into the debt repayment scheme via the usual 'Oh she looks fit can we use her to repay part of the debt' etc. Victor Webster is clearly talented in Martial Arts and does hold an unbeaten record in a couple of Martial Arts, his acting however is not as good but for B-Movie fare he is fine.
The only real issue with the film is the ending, Steven Seagal who is 62 (and doesn't look a day over 68) is playing alongside a 24 year old who Seagal all the way through protects more in a father figure type way, when these 2 end up together in what is quite clearly not a Father and daughter type clinch it's very wrong.....very wrong indeed.