Aftershock

I love disaster movies, I was raised on movies like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno and I am up to watch 2012 or Volcano anytime. A good disaster movie manages to dance the fine line between destruction and inspiration. This movie didn't dance that line very well in my opinion. The movie was well acted and the effects were decent, so that's why I gave it 4 stars, but I couldn't say that I actually liked the movie at all, I found it to be entirely too depressing. There were too many people who just died for no good reason. I fully understand that in a real disaster like this, many, many people would die for no good reason, but when you make a movie, you must always keep that line in mind.

This movie didn't come off as inspiring, or even warning, just depressing. Maybe it's a difference between American audiences and NZ audiences, but I don't imagine I'll ever watch this movie again, it was far, far too depressing.