20.0 Megaquake ( San Fransisco Megaquake )

Some people love to go out dancing on a Saturday night at a night club. Or they might visit the local polka club because polka is the greatest party music ever ( i heard, even more popular than Lady Gaga ). Either way on a Saturday night i really like to get into a party mood, so how do i do that? Very easy, i bring out my collection of pencil sharpeners. I am telling you right now nothing gets the party started like bringing out your whole pencil sharpeners collection and making a photo shoot with them. I have done that so many times and posed with each pencil sharpener on many different locations. In one picture you see me with my green pencil sharpener at a farm house. I don´t even know who lived there so i just decided to pose there anyway with my green pencil sharpener. In another picture i am swimming with my blue pencil sharpener in a pool underneath the water. For some reason someone who worked at the pool area told me to leave, he thought i was taking a selfie of myself close to an older man in tight men´s swimming trunks. Trust me i was only taking a selfie with my blue pencil sharpener, why would i do something else? So whenever people ask me how to fix the perfect party i always suggest you need to collect pencil sharpeners in all sizes. They are gorgeous, sexy to look at and they match in any room as a nice decoration. Something that may not be that sexy or nice at all is of course earthquakes. Not only do they cause chaos in society but you can´t even drive right through them. I guess you could try but chances are you might not make it home to Thanksgiving dinner. I did experience one in Greece back in 2013 but it wasn´t that big and no exploding cars unfortunately. Eathquakes have been shown in a lot of films from the past, but there is an even more dangerous earthquake that are known as megaquakes. And i recently picked up a DVD from the UK with a film known as San Fransisco Megaquake ( the original title is 20.0 Megaquake in the U.S. ), simply because the title itself sounded interesting. A film made by the world famous production company The Asylum, is this one of their best releases in recent years or is this almost as bad as on the same level of Skinamarink?

As a megaquake threatens San Fransisco, a series of foreshocks wrecks havoc across the city. Now an elite team of emergency services and disaster experts converge to work together, to see if they can find sollutions and save as many people as possible.

Over the years i have seen quite a lot of films released by The Asylum, and i can confirm that they can never do anything on the same level of quality as the Sharknado franchise ( everyone should own a DVD box or Blu Ray box collection of Sharknado ). Sharknado had everything you could wish for when it came to the perfect characters, fantastic special effects and a lot of fun action scenes. In the case of 20.0 Megaquake ( San Fransisco Megaquake ) we find another release by The Asylum that tries to be more serious. The thing about their natural disaster films is that they usually struggle to combine a serious tone and make it work with their special effects. That is exactly what happens in this film, so it is very difficult to take this film serious at all because of the bad CGI effects. You could say that they tried to do the best they could with the budget they had to make this film, but honestly i have seen very low budget films look great. If you are creative and you know how to make a film look good, you can actually get away with a lot of things and doesn´t affect the quality of a film. But let´s get into what i enjoyed most about 20.0 Megaquake and that is the female character known as Molly, played by actress and host of TV series Face Of, the one and only McKenzie Westmore ( who does not remember her from the film Star Trek: Insurrection and TV series Star Trek: Voyager ? ) It´s not that she gives us a strong performance, but at least her character feels like a character compared to some of the other actors. McKenzie steals the show for the most part in this film, and i would like to see her as a lead character in a horror film someday. And that pretty much is the positive to say about this film, because the rest is just another natutal disaster CGI film we have seen so many times before. Director Jared Cohn ( who did direct the Michael Madsen film Devil´s Domain, a film you should experience ) have directed a lot of low budget films for many years, and i actually enjoyed just a few of his films. But 20.0 Megaquake could have been so much better, especially when you have a lead female character that could have worked in a better film than this. McKenzie Westmore saves this film from falling apart, and i noticed she plays this character Molly in two other films and i will definetely check them out. If you want to watch a great earthquake film, go watch the Norwegian film Skalvet ( The Quake ) from director John Andreas Andersen instead of 20.0 Megaquake.

Rating: DD