"Tsunami" is a German movie from 1'2005, so this one is already more than a decade old. It is a small screen production that runs for slightly under 100 minutes. The writers and director are not too famous, not even here in Germany, so I will not go a lot further into detail about them. Same can be said about the cast. Huge film buffs like myself probably know Naujoks, maybe Dittmann and Stromberg fans will also know Gärtner, but the two lead actors I have to admit I probably don't remember at all. This is a German catastrophe movie and honestly, these have a bit of a tendency to be really bad. The IMDb rating here already suggests that this one is not an exception. However, it is not as catastrophic as it may look like. Yes the story takes itself far too seriously on many occasions and the acting is as mediocre as the script, sometimes even painfully over the top. But here and there are also moments when it is at least an okay watch in terms of excitement and atmosphere. Of course, there is not a single approach where you could take this film seriously from a dramatic or even scientific perspective, but honestly that was not a surprise at all. If there is any way to really appreciate this film maybe, then it could be as a guilty pleasure. This film has nothing to do with realism and it's a bit embarrassing how they all end up together all the time, the main characters, also at the very ending. Yeah, the only plausible explanation here is that this one gets a thumbs-down. I don't recommend the watch.
Review of Tsunami
