Film Review – The Wave

Not content to simply sit and watch Hollywood have all the fun, Norway elects to get into the disaster movie business with “The Wave,” working to figure out the balance between character dimension and widescreen spectacle. Mercifully, director Roar Uthaug doesn’t take the Roland Emmerich route, submitting a thoughtful take on catastrophe, using the presence of a crumbling mountain and ensuing tsunami to inspect family matters and nail-biting acts of survival. Perhaps “The Wave” is tame compared to junk food like “2012,” but its retains sincerity when dealing with characters and threat, making its harrowing vision for oncoming doom all the more chilling and, in a way, relatable. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com