It’s only been about a month since K-Pop Demon Hunters dropped on Netflix and it wasted no time climbing to the top of the streamer’s charts. It even made the leap to theaters with its very own sing-along version. But now? There’s a new contender giving it a serious run for its money and here's the twist: it’s not even a new release. In fact, it’s 10 years old.
The film? San Andreas.
Starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the 2015 disaster flick is suddenly surging back into the spotlight. Johnson plays a search and rescue pilot in California who, after the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, must team up with his estranged wife to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco to rescue their daughter. But as they head north, it quickly becomes clear: what they’ve already survived is only the beginning.
The cast also includes Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Paul Giamatti and more familiar faces.
I didn’t catch San Andreas when it first hit theaters in 2015, so I watched the trailer and was instantly hooked. It kicks off with a woman stranded in the rubble of a collapsing skyscraper, only to leap into a rescue chopper piloted by Johnson’s character.
From there, it’s non-stop adrenaline. But the scene that really got me? Johnson trying to ride a rescue boat up the face of a massive tsunami. The boat goes nearly vertical as an aerial shot reveals just how monstrous that wave really is. Yeah… intense.
Despite a middling 50 percent average score on Rotten Tomatoes, San Andreas was a global box office hit, raking in $475 million worldwide. And fun fact: seven years after its release, it remained the highest-grossing live-action Hollywood original film.
Now, it's back and cracking Netflix’s Top 10 all over again.
San Andreas is streaming now on Netflix.
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