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Dwayne Johnson has been busy lately. The soon-to-be Disney Legend award recipient has two films coming out this year and will be making his return for the final Fast & Furious movie. Now, one of the actor’s underrated sci-fi dramas is heading to a new streaming platform and will be available for free.
Throughout Johnson’s decades-long acting career, the wrestler has appeared in many projects. He made his acting debut in an episode of That ’70s Show and first appeared on the big screen in the 2001 feature, The Mummy Returns, where he played The Scorpion King. Since then, he has starred in franchises such as Jumanji and the DCU, as well as appearing in many Disney titles, including Hannah Montana, Race to Witch Mountain, and Wizards of Waverly Place. But if there is one genre Johnson is known for, it’s action and thriller movies, and one of them has found a new streaming home.
San Andreas is a 2015 disaster thriller that grossed over $475 million worldwide. Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a helicopter rescue pilot for the Los Angeles Fire Department, who will do anything to save and protect his family after a series of massive earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault devastate California. Also starring in this film are Carla Gugino (Spy Kids), Alexandra Daddario (Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One and Two), Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four), and Hugo Johnstone-Burt (NCIS: Sydney). Since its release, San Andreas has received mixed reviews, earning a 48% critics score and a 52% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. 11 years later, Johnson fans have another chance to catch this movie as it’s now available to stream on Tubi.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Before San Andreas entered theaters, there were discussions about what if the fault line were to shift. The film showcases one disastrous version of what could happen if that day were to come, and those depictions were criticized by reviewers and seismologists who went out of their way to separate fact from fiction.
*San Andreas *is one of many films that attempted to showcase a heavily discussed natural disaster scenario, and there are other titles worth watching that fit the bill. One notable example is 2012, a film that dramatizes the 2012 phenomenon, where it’s predicted that the world will end on December 21, 2012. Another film worth watching that you might not have heard of is Pandora. This 2016 South Korean disaster film, inspired by the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Accident, but set in a Korean town, follows power plant worker Kang Jae-hyeok (Kim Nam-gil) as he attempts to save lives after an earthquake triggers a nuclear meltdown.