Ranking March 2016's Movies - From Worst To Best
7. The Wave
RottenTomatoes Score: 80% (6.6/10)
Box Office: The Norwegian disaster film was produced for a modest $6.5 million and has made an impressive $11.1 million worldwide, albeit mostly from Noway.
Verdict: The most startling thing about this movie is how much mileage it manages to get out of its miniscule budget: the decimation of a Norwegian town by a tsunami doesn't feel too toned-down or cheap compared to Hollywood's $100+ million blockbusters, even if it is obviously working with an inferior set of tools.
What the movie gets right above the carnage is the characters: while Hollywood is fixated on hot young starlets and dull family melodrama, here everyone actually seems like a person, and the lack of star power on display probably aids that. It's ultimately not a million miles away from the disaster movies trotted out every summer, but does enough to differentiate itself and compensate for its comparatively tiny budget.