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San Andreas is a 2015 American disaster film directed by Brad Peyton and written by Carlton Cuse, with Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore receiving story credit. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, and Paul Giamatti.

Plot
A seemingly ideal day turns disastrous when California's notorious San Andreas fault triggers a devastating, magnitude 9 earthquake, the largest in recorded history. As the Earth cracks open and buildings start to crumble, Ray Gaines (Dwayne Johnson), an LAFD search-and-rescue helicopter pilot, must navigate the destruction from Los Angeles to San Francisco to bring his estranged wife (Carla Gugino) and their only daughter (Alexandra Daddario) to safety.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The car flipping down a hill in the beginning is unintentionally hilarious to watch; instead of barrel-rolling, it goes end over end, and the CGI is quite obvious (which is strange because the majority of the film's effects are quite good).
 * 2) Ray's rescue team from the opening. They were Put on a Bus to go deal with rescue at the Hoover Dam, and never got a chance to shine outside of that one scene. It becomes Fridge Horror when you realize the guy who'd gotten his arm stuck under the crashed car probably died when the L.A. hospital in which his injury was being treated collapsed on him.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The heroes' powerboat and the other boats riding over the Tsunami's crest. What makes this all the more awesome is the fact that several yachts also make it over the top, something which is almost impossible to do in real life.

Reception
San Andreas received mixed reviews from critics, praising the visual effects and Johnson and Gugino's performances but criticizing the plot and characters. On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 49% based on 247 reviews and an average rating of 5.20/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "San Andreas has a great cast and outstanding special effects, but amidst all the senses-shattering destruction, the movie's characters and plot prove less than structurally sound.". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 43 out of 100 based on 42 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.

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