Girls of Geek B Movie Review: "10.0 Earthquake"

Written by Scotty

Will it ever be possible for Los Angeles to catch a break?  It seems like every time I watch the news there are new reports of when the city will be falling into the ocean.  The latest story I heard had the target date of 2018, so I guess that we will lose our movie industry sooner than later since everyone is out there.  I would think that with all of our technology, we would be able to prevent this from happening since we know what causes the quakes.  Oh well, L.A. I will miss you when you are gone.

Jack is on his way to try and visit his daughter, but she has other plans for the night since she was asked by Derek to go camping in the Angeles National Forest.  Jack is very disappointed in his daughter for double booking her time and since he no longer gets to see her on a regular basis, he has become very protective of her.  Finding out that she is going on this trip with boys, he is about to lose his mind, but his soon to be ex-wife keeps him calm enough not to explode, but the rest of the city will not be that lucky.

At a fracking plant across town, issues are starting to arise.  Knowing that they should not be digging to the fault lines, two workers find out that they have punctured one and it is causing their station to shake violently.  While nothing is showing up on the USGS radar, Emily who is new to her position has been put in charge of finding out what is opening up sinkholes all over the city.  As she is able to find the epicenter of the quakes, she gets into contact with Mr. Gladstone who was able to procure her the job.  Finding that one of the fracking plants has caused this mess, Emily and Gladstone have to prove that their theories are correct to get the mass evacuation of L.A. approved before it vanishes into the ocean.

While believing that his plants are harmless, Reynolds is about to start drilling in his newest plant and not listening to the warnings that Jack has passed on, he is about to make things much worse.  Being located just outside of the National Park, Jack is in a race against time to get his daughter back to safety, but he does not know what troubles are behind him.  With the ground cracking around him, Jack has to stay ahead of the minor quakes and with the help of Emily and Gladstone, find a way to get the epicenter to change to a more remote area that will not kill the millions of people in the city that are not expecting the big one to hit.

A L.A. disaster movie, but now one that has the cause of the earthquakes centered around a man-made event.  I am okay with this and since I don’t understand all of the science of what drilling can do to a fault line, the theory seems sound to me.  If you drill it, you will kill millions…or something like that.  With the city in shambles, you get to see the true emotions come out about what is happening all around them.  And with a way to stop it before it gets worse, there is always hesitation from the people in charge to make the call to save the people they are paid to protect.  There might be a little more social commentary to this, but I am here to be entertained so I don’t really pay attention to it most of the times.  If you want to see sinkholes, a whole lot of shaking, a Doctor and a Crazy Man try to save the day, this movie is for you.  Happy Viewing.

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