San Andreas
Warner Bros. | Release Date: May 29, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 42 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
18
Negative:
12
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 28, 2015
There's nothing to keep the pulse alive after the first quake. Peyton throws in a second quake and a tsunami, but after a while buildings tumbling into the ocean are just a bunch of pixels turning everything into visual mush and leaving audiences in a digital stupor. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezMay 27, 2015
In Brad Peyton's San Andreas, the biggest earthquake in recorded history is less natural disaster than divorce negotiation process. Read full review
38
New York PostLou LumenickMay 27, 2015
Oblivious to both narrative logic and the laws of physics, the cliché-filled San Andreas doesn’t nearly have the star power of earlier, better disaster movies it borrows from like “The Poseidon Adventure,” “Earthquake” and “The Towering Inferno.” Read full review
33
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanMay 28, 2015
It’s hard to stay connected to a disaster film where the biggest disaster is the script. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMay 28, 2015
San Andreas changes all too quickly from satisfyingly foolish to dismayingly dumb to genuinely stupid. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 28, 2015
The purpose of San Andreas is not to make us think, but to make us gape, to pummel us with effect and effect until we finally give in. Fair enough. Uncle. I need a Tylenol anyway. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 28, 2015
The most disturbing thing about this may be how dull and routine it seems. Computer-generated imagery can produce remarkably detailed vistas of disaster — bridges and buildings collapsing; giant ships flung onto urban streets; beloved landmarks pulverized — but the technology also has a way of stripping such spectacles of impact and interest. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonMay 26, 2015
San Andreas can't wait for the carnage. The problem is, it's too chicken to ask us to comprehend it. It's all big, distant, unfathomable wreckage -- all shattering skyscrapers and rippling cityscapes -- with no sense of the human cost. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianJeff BakerMay 28, 2015
Run! Run for your lives! Get out of this theater now! Two hours is a terrible thing to waste! Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMay 28, 2015
This is pure Disaster 101 formula, although distilled to the minimum amount of dialogue and characters possible. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierMay 28, 2015
San Andreas is a disaster — literally. That’s not to take a piece out of Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson. His charm and family-man-style fearlessness as the movie’s star is the only saving grace in this thuddingly repetitive, badly written crash-a-thon. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMay 27, 2015
San Andreas, by its very nature, begs, borrows, and outright steals from other, occasionally better, disaster epics. Read full review
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