![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Casting of main parts is fine the cast of extras is enormous. A lot of time and effort went into the visuals of this film, and it shows. And the visuals during and after the earthquake are spectacular, every bit as good as in the 1974 film "Earthquake", if not better. They're watching for the disaster that's about to befall the characters. But of course viewers aren't really watching the film for the melodrama. At times I could not understand the dialogue it seemed muffled. Also, the sound quality in the copy I watched was not very good. Because of so many speaking parts, I lost track of how some characters connected to other characters. ![]() At least 30 minutes probably could have been cut out without affecting the quality of the overall story. The assassination subplot seemed a bit hokey. The first relates to the subplots there are too many, resulting in an unnecessarily long run-time of about three hours. Describing what could happen in the future, the film combines formulaic character subplots with terrific visuals in the second half to convey a fictional but realistic story of people caught up in their own private dramas before and during a devastating earthquake. ![]()
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