The Wave

This film has a review that states "Puts Hollywood to shame". When I read that review I mistakenly believed that it meant that the film expressed genuine creativity and avoided the time worn clichés of Hollywood. Having watched the film I now understand that the reviewer must have meant that the film put Hollywood to shame by grossly exaggerating and extending Hollywood clichés to a level even Hollywood would be ashamed of. If I have understood this movie correctly the lead character is a man whose job it is to save a town from destruction by a tsunami... Er... Needless to say he does not do this. In fact he encourages people to get out of their cars as the wave approaches and then gets in a car just before it hits, this ensuring more people died than needed to while he himself was saved. As these were the same people who had not thought of simply driving up the mountain on the wrong side of the road they probably deserved to die, but maybe people in Norway are so polite that they did not want to inconvenience those driving down the mountain toward the tsunami... My favourite character however is the femme fatale. And when I say fatale I mean mass murderer, who not only caused the death of a bus load of tourist by making them wait while she looked for her son, she then strangled the guy who had come to help her. I understand her anxiety however because when water begins defying physics then it gets kind of freaky. In one scene water pours over the top of a shelter door while an overhead service duct remains dry. Freaky. I could go on but I have lost the will to live.