I went into this expecting a lower
budget film about a group of party goers including Eli Roth, who get
trapped inside a nightclub when a massive earthquake hits Chile. To
my surprise this was a much bigger form of disaster film. The scope
of the movie shows much of “The Real” Chile as the character
played by the director Nicolas Lopez tells his American friend simply
called “Gringo” played by Roth.
The situations and the way the
characters responded to these life and death choices are brutally
realistic. They use practical effects to show the destruction and
carnage once the earthquake hits and the blood effects are well done.
It takes a bit of run time before the earthquake happens, but not
too long and then the action does not stop.
In the DVD making of the director said
he got the idea for this movie because he survived a tragedy like
this that struck Chile in 2010. It shows in the careful attention he
took to make it feel real.
This review was written by Curt Wiser,
Author of the novel Box Cutter Killer and Writer-Director of
the movie Cam-Girl (aka Web-Cam).
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