Category: Reviews

Nighttime airport tarmac explosion: a jet with tail and wings erupting in flames as people flee in fear.

Greenland (2020)

Directed by: Ric Roman WaughStarring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd Greenland on IMDb First things first: Greenland features an epic disaster scenario but the way I see it, it is only borderline...

Anthony Ramos, Daisy Edgar Jones and Glen Powell in Twisters.

Twisters (2024)

Rivalling stormchasers, massive tornados, clever science contraptions and a female lead braving harsh weather in tight tops. Twisters is solidly entertaining.

Dwayne Johnson climbing a crane in the disaster movie Skyscraper (2018).

Skyscraper (2018)

In Skyscraper, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson takes on a blazing building full of heavily armed goons in a good-looking but too predictable disaster movie.

Hanna Quinlivan and Xueqi Wang in Skyfire.

Skyfire (2019)

Simon West’s unpretentious and entertaining volcano movie Skyfire brings lots of lava and frenzied action.

Bad moon rising over the Griffith Observatory in Moonfall.

Moonfall (2022)

With Moonfall, Roland Emmerich has crafted a disaster movie that is pretty much a disaster itself.

Dubai gets flooded in the disaster movie Geostorm.

Geostorm (2017)

Geostorm, starring Gerard Butler, is a mess of a disaster movie – but a deliciously ridiculous and sometimes quite entertaining mess.

Theo James in How It Ends.

How It Ends (2018)

Theo James and Forest Whitaker star in Netflix original How It Ends. It’s like The Road but pointless.

Image of Carla Gugino and Dwayne Johnson in San Andreas.

San Andreas (2015)

Earthquake blockbuster San Andreas is enjoyable for the mayhem factor, but totally generic in every other way.

Screenshot from the disaster movie The Wave showing a tsunami headed towards a cruise ship.

The Wave (2015)

The Wave, the first disaster movie from Scandinavia, offers likeable characters and a huge tsunami devastating a Norwegian fjord.

Richard Armitage and Sarah Wayne Callies in Into the Storm.

Into the Storm (2014)

In all its simplicity, tornado flick Into the Storm is a very entertaining disaster movie. Plus, it’s got a fire twister!