With a haunting cover of The Mama and the Papas California Dreamin' by Sia, the scene is set for San Andreas to be an epic disaster movie. When a magnitude 9 earthquake triggers the San Andreas fault to give way, Chief Ray Gaines, a search and rescue helicopter pilot (Dwayne Johnson), finds himself battling against the incredible force of mother nature.

Not only compelled to try and save as many lives as possible from Los Angeles, he is desperate to navigate the chaos and destruction toward San Francisco in an attempt to find and save his daughter Blake.

Together with his ex-wife Emma, they have no idea the magnitude of the feat ahead of them. San Andreas is a visual regale of heart-stopping proportions. The film is named after the San Andreas Fault, a meeting of two tectonic plates that extends for over 800 miles through California, and which has already caused a great number of earthquakes since records began.

The gravity of the films subject matter is very real for many who have experienced previous earthquakes resulting from the famous fault-line. It is certain despite this, that a lot of the movie’s appeal is going to be in the scenes of entire cities rippling, dams bursting, and Johnson flying helicopters past collapsing buildings.

San Andreas is in cinemas 28th May.