10 2015 Movies That Are Destined To Disappoint You

7. San Andreas

In an era where a studio logo can be as big a draw as an A-List actor, it's refreshing to see Dwayne Johnson carve out a niche as go-to star for dumb-but-fun B-movies. He raised Brett Ratner's needlessly revisionist Hercules to shockly enjoyability, while the fact The Fast And The Furious franchise has gone from teenage boy past-time to everyone's not-so-guilty pleasure just as he got involved is no coincidence. But just because The Rock's in a film it doesn't mean it'll end up being a totally fun success story. Both Fast and Hercules had something going for them (fast cars and freaking Hercules) before he got involved. Just throw him in a crap idea without thinking and you've got a Tooth Fairy on your hands. And that certainly seems to be the case for San Andreas, the latest in a long line of modern disaster movies that consistently ignore that the genre's heyday was forty years ago. Once a booming genre, as soon as it became easy to show ever-escalating natural disasters with CGI the two key interests of real-world destruction movies - they had a potential to be real and served as an in to some cracking character drama - were lost and you end up with examples as dire as Into The Storm. San Andreas doesn't look set to be much better than last years tornado dud, promising lots of uninteresting CGI action and a complete disregard for actually interesting characters. Doesn't look like Johnson will be able to save it - The Rock doesn't play characters, he plays The Rock.