SAN ANDREAS (2015)

I love disaster flicks - which is why, even though 4 minutes into San Andreas I knew was going to hate this movie, I stuck with it anyway.  But from the first time we see Dwayne Johnson, the sun glinting off his manly features as he (badly) utters his first line, to the moment shortly after when he calls a woman he's about to rescue "honey" (setting back women's rights about 30 years), the film turns into cliche after cliche via a horrible script and some very bad acting.  The "plot" involves Johnson, as search-and-rescue worker Ray, ignoring the lives of absolutely everyone else when the San Andreas fault cracks open and levels Los Angeles (later San Francisco), in order to find and rescue his own wife in L.A. before flying his chopper blindly over the millions of injured to get to San Francisco, so he can get his own daughter out of a trapped town car in a parking garage (swear to God).  The ridiculousness doesn't stop there, and even with good special effects I can't imagine how this film ever even got made. (rated PG-13)  D-