Review of Epicenter

Epicenter (2000)
2/10
fascinatingly awful
25 February 2001
Warning: Spoilers
Some spoilers - but do you care? Plot truly ridiculous. Absurd gunfight in San Francisco streets involving a lot of car crashes but no sense. Hero & heroine being shot at by baddies as they go on cable car (which travels about 3 miles per hour). All gunshots miss (but some come very close - scary!) "Earthquake" in LA was a much lower budget affair, involving shaking cameras and falling styrofoam. Gunfight continues uninterrupted during 2 minutes of the strongest earthquake ever. Cutaway to subway car going off track. Why? So later the hero & heroine can come by (does no one else live in LA?) to decide that some people need to be rescued while baddies prepare to drop a car on top of them! Daughter's boyfriend is injured in quake. Daughter says her mom will know what to do - she's to arrive at 9pm! Sure enough the mother arrives in a now virtually deserted mall and they find each other in the designated place. Mind you, in the worst earthquake LA could imagine - whole skyscrapers fall into each other. There is a final shootout with the baddies, a hug, and then the mother (FBI agent) says, "Let's go home, kids". The boy limps along. How will they go home with the city virtually destroyed? What will be there when they arrive? What about all the rest of the people killed by falling styrofoam? Anyway, a hoot.
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