Review of Firequake

Firequake (2014 TV Movie)
3/10
So bad that it is.... just bad
16 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Cheap, click and add special effects have made disaster movies super cheap to make, so we get a lot of them now. And that really isn't a good thing. Too often they aren't entertainingly bad they are just bad. As Huey Lewis once said "sometimes bad is bad" and this is one of those times.

There really isn't anything likeable about this movie or the characters in it. Their actions make very little sense and the twenty-something that is trying to play an angry/bratty teen doesn't pull off anything other than being annoying. They needed to back the bratty off a lot earlier for her 'turn around'.

Her blog has 6 followers and yet she acts like the entire world is reading it. The only good people in this are the ones that own (or is it just take care of?) the house but you know how being good in a movie like this will end.

The technicians that you are supposed to root for surviving are literally the ones that turned on the doomed system. The main bad guy couldn't have done it on his own so they are just as guilty.

And then come the Whys?

Why have your daughter show up 3 days before a huge event? Have her stay with a friend in the US for another week or two.

Why not explain to her how crucial this is and tell her after Monday you will spend time with her to get everything settled?

Why kill the people at the house just because the lady told them she was innocent? Guilty people say that all the time.

Why kill the lady behind the project at all? He had all the money and the media behind him, he already won the 'who was wrong' battle.

And the final why.... Why did I watch this all the way through????
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