While character development is all good and well, saving your big disaster set-piece for the last thirty minutes of the film while the rest of the running time is spent on dull and annoying comedy shenanigans and relationship woes is not the best approach. It appears for a good chunk of the running time the filmmakers are actually producing a relationship comedy rather than a big budget disaster flick. Despite the cast’s best efforts none of the several sets of characters we follow in the lead up to the gigantic wave hitting are particularly appealing or interesting and after much (much) shouting, screeching and over-the-top theatrics one just wishes the wave would hit already. However, you will more likely wish for them to get swept away by the giant wave as after an hour of spending time with them bickering, shouting, mugging and generally being annoying when the disaster hits chances are you won’t care whether they live or die.Īs harsh as that may be, the makers of ‘Tidal Wave’ forgot one important ingredient in cooking up the perfect disaster movie: likable characters that we can root for.
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The set up is fine: due to undersea earthquakes a humongous tidal wave is making its way to the seaside city of Haeundae on the south coast of Korea and in typical disaster movie fashion we are given a set of differing characters to root for. Sadly, we the viewer, have to wade through an awful lot of so called plot and character development until the mighty wave finally makes its appearance which unfortunately makes the rest of ‘Tidal Wave’ a bit of a slog to get through. "Tidal Wave", a song by Portugal.This big budget disaster movie from Korea certainly has one thing going for it: one gigantic wave that destroys everything in its path."Tidal Wave", a song by The Sugarcubes on the 1989 album Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!."Tidal Wave", a song by Ronnie Laws and Pressure, 1975."Tidal Wave", a song by Owl City on their 2009 album Ocean Eyes.
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A tsunami, a series of water waves in a body of water caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, although this usage of "tidal wave" is a misnomer and is disfavored by the scientific community.