Disaster flick that's not all it's cracked up to be

SAN Andreas is a movie about what happens when California gets hit by The Big One - no, not Dwayne Johnson (also known as "The Rock"), an actor whose ridiculously broad chest and bulging biceps deserve their own screen credits - but a massive earthquake that precipitates the spectacular and systematic CGI-rendered destruction of the Golden State.

Freeways collapse, buildings crumble and cell-phone signals are lost. Thousands are swallowed up by huge holes where the ground used to be, a towering tsunami swamps the Golden Gate Bridge and the city by the bay is reduced to rubble. And if one giant temblor isn't enough, then two will do the trick.

Recent events in Nepal will be a sobering reminder that reality bites a lot harder, so if it's a choice between The Rock and a hard place then a silly disaster flick is nothing to complain about.