The Quake

The film has a different construction than the conventional one expected in this type of film, but when it comes to what needs to happen, it is not as imposing and impressive as it should be and the final act ends up being extremely generic.

The Quake is a hoot! It's very well done. Great special effects. Very good acting. Keeps you in suspense because you care about the characters. And let's face it, Quakes happen. This could happen. Better on TV than in my backyard. See it. Worth it.

Really kind of silly disaster movie that started off as well done human interest but then devolved into typical nonsense. Please foreign film makers you don't have to mimic Hollywood tripe.

Although less tense and interesting than The Wave, this 2018 sequel is still a recommended watch thanks to solid performances, great character development and some truly impressive effects and moments.

The Eikjord Family soap opera continues. The pacing had me falling asleep an hour into the film when I watched it at night & less than an hour when I tried to finish it in the morning & finally suffering though it on watch number 3. Watch with caution... and a pillow.

If you are looking for an action packed Earthquake movie don't expect it from this film. However the production value, Time and effort that went into the making of this picture had to have been immense . Quality wise you get an incredible experience overlooking picturesque aerial views of Norways beautiful mountains and city,as well as intense emotional acting performances from each cast member. Other than the unfortunate fact the story doesn't pick up until 1 hour and 12 minutes into the movie. It has a devastating realism that other hollywood productions fail to compare to. By far an extremely impressive foreign film well worth recognition. A must watch at least once.

We're all skeptical of movie sequels. They're never as good as the originals, and they're usually flagrant attempts to capitalize on the success of their predecessors. But Norwegian director John Andreas Andersen isn't fooling around. He skillfully builds on the tension in his first disaster movie, the terrific "The Wave," and he makes it work convincingly. Three years after surviving a massive tidal wave with his family in a Norwegian resort area, seismologist Kristian Elkjord (Kristoffer Joner) looks worse for the wear. It's appears that he's suffering PTSD from the event. He is also separated from his wife and kids and is living alone in the mountains outside of Oslo (I thought families that survived disasters together were supposed to be drawn closer together, but not in this case). The first scene shows him picking up his young daughter, who has an uncomfortable visit as she sees the hundreds of newspaper stories about the wave plastered all over the wall of his home office. She spends one night with him, and he tells her that he can't have company and sends her home early. Soon, we see Kristian becoming worried about an impending earthquake, this time in the metropolitan city of Oslo. He seems more like a wild-eyed paranoiac than he did in "The Wave," but who can blame him, considering what he's been through? As he did in "The Wave," Anderson builds the suspense painstakingly slowly. We're a good two-thirds into the film before the disaster fully hits (even though there are creepy premonitions, like rats scurrying as if they know something is up and the lights going out in much of the city). Andersen does this for good reason: to build a solid relationship between the characters and the audience—a technique that is sadly lacking in typical disaster films. We feel close to Kristian, with his hangdog expression and his obvious love for his family; his long-suffering but empathetic wife Idun (Ane Dahl Torp); and his two kids (Jonas Hoff Oftebro and Ingvild Haugstad), who are bewildered by the separation but still love their parents. Considering the less-than-astronomical budget of this film, the special effects are impressive. And the cinematography is crisp and effective. The height of the quake occurs when Idun is on the 34th floor of a glass skyscraper in downtown Oslo. These are spectacular scenes. It's refreshing to see Oslo crash and burn, instead of New York and Los Angeles as we've seen in so many American disaster movies. Yawn. When the theater where Kristian's daughter is in a ballet recital partially collapses, Kristian tries to warn the head engineer about the coming quake. The engineer tells him, "I can't even imagine the nightmare you've been through. But that doesn't mean that disasters follow you." Well, apparently, they do. No wonder Kiristian looks so worn out. I can't imagine what the Norwegian government thinks of these two films. Seemingly the entire country is ready to crumble and fall into the sea. Not especially good for tourism, but great for movie making. I recommend that Kristian and his family move to coastal Florida. They'll probably have to deal with hurricanes, so Andersen can make another sequel.

Um filme com baixo orçamento, mas com uma direção que consegue disfarçar isso, e uma montagem que nos deixa a ponto de não conseguir respirar.

it´s generic, not even close to be even on my top 50 favorite disaster movie.

With John Andreas Andersen's The Quake (Skjelvet) I have now completed the Norwegian disaster trilogy which also comprises 2019's The Tunnel (Tunnelen) and 2015's The Wave (Bolgen). The Quake serves as a sequel to the solid disaster flick The Wave, and follows geologist Kristian as he deals with the post-traumatic stress he acquired from the events of the first film, only to discover that a major earthquake is about to strike the city of Oslo. Many of the things that made The Wave so enjoyable are seen again here such as some wonderfully shot sequences (particularly towards the start of the film) and some very solid special effects work. There were also some tense sequences with one distinctly paying homage to the wonderful trailer scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. However, it also suffers many of the problems I had with The Wave. I feel the film starts very well with re-establishing the characters and the world via some fairly compelling family drama and beautiful establishing shots of the Norwegian landscape. Unfortunately, like The Wave, this film ends up losing steam, but it occurs much earlier with the plot becoming bogged down and dragged out by uninteresting family drama. This pacing issue was epitomised by how the eponymous event only occurred well over halfway into the runtime. I also was really not a fan of the blatant use of the Inception foghorn in the soundtrack to signify danger and dramatic events. This is really a cinema trope that has had its day and needs to die a death. Ultimately this film serves as a decent follow up to The Wave, although one has to wonder why they felt the need to make it.