This surprised me by how good it was. I mean, it wasn't perfect, I'm not a seismologist, or even a professional scientist and I could tell that most of what the CalTech Professor said (other than the duck and cover and hold on thing) was pure bunk. C'mon, if it's a 9.6 on the west coast you can feel it on the east coast? Ah, I think not, not to mention, I do know enough to know that a) San Andreas is probably too short to cause earthquakes too much past 9, not to mention, it's a side to side one not an over/under one, and I do believe most of the humongous (number wise, we're not talking destruction, because, holy moly we've seen smaller ones do a ton of destruction) earthquakes have been on the plates that dig into each other.

Anyway.... I digress. Those were the parts of the movie that made me wince and I had to stretch my imagination for. The rest of it was a solid action movie with some compassion and a pretty well acted/written family subplot, and a cute girl saves guy mulitple times sub-subplot. Dwayne Johnson has come so so far since his Scorpion King days, and heh, there was even Hugo Johnstone-Burt, who was on Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, I had no idea that he had done stuff over here too!

It was a fun movie to watch once I stopped thinking logically about the science parts of the plot (even some of the physics were a little wonky...). And, it greatly surpassed what I thought it would be based on its title/plot blurb! ( )