Countless individuals were irrevocably affected by
the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, thus ensuring there was no shortage of accounts
on loss and trauma when the time came to portray the event on film. Clearly
Juan Bayona doesn’t have the guts to make that kind of film, so instead he takes
the Disney route and focuses on a family that managed to walk away from the
disaster intact, therefore making The
Impossible the most ill-conceived feelgood movie of the year. The tsunami
itself is convincingly rendered and Bayona puts his actors through the wringer in
the thunderous opening act, yet it feels like a stylised version of a Roland
Emmerich disaster flick.
2/5
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