Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
"San Andreas" never pretends to be any less subtle than the Rock's physique. It's a hulking mass of wanton destruction, and a stupid-fun carnival of carnage.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
As patently preposterous, scientifically dubious, and unapologetically corny as director Brad Peyton's orgy of CGI devastation is, its popcorn prophecy of the inevitable is a blast of giddy, disposable fun.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
The special effects aren't bad for a lower-budget ($100 million) blockbuster, though director Brad Peyton and his writers often deploy them in downright laughable ways.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
It's all big, distant, unfathomable wreckage - shattering skyscrapers and rippling cityscapes - with no sense of the human cost

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
An action hero with a rare kind of gravitas, Johnson has a stabilizing influence on all the silliness that surrounds him.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
There are things in San Andreas that no one would have dreamed of seeing 40 years ago, when Earthquake (with its tacky, plaster-cracking "Sensurround") represented the state of the art. But nothing means anything.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
It's hard not to shrug, stifle a yawn and reach for the popcorn when the Golden Gate Bridge once again buckles and sways and drops vehicles into the bay.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Some movies are easy to mock, but hard to resist. This is one of them.

Name : Kevin C. Johnson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"San Andreas" is an action film that hits viewers over the head. Again and again. But isn't that exactly why you'd want to go see it?

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The cringeworthy dialogue and unmoving earnestness are the biggest disasters in this mostly forgettable action flick

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
My resistance to summer blockbusters crumbled like a collapsing skyscraper in the face of this big, loud, exuberantly destructive movie.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The allure of San Andreas rests entirely on the calibre of its pandemonium, savored, ideally, with a brawling audience on a Friday night.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Paul Giamatti is perfectly cast as the rumpled scientist and his scenes are by far the most interesting. It causes one to wonder if San Andreas might have worked better if the entire film had focused on his character.

Name : Justin Lowe / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Together with cinematographer Steve Yedlin and VFX supervisor Colin Strause, director Brad Peyton achieves a persuasive blending of practical shots and superior CG techniques for the most complex sequences.

Name : Chris Klimek / Alias : NPR
Helo-flown and hella-dumb, the movie delivers what its ads promise and not a particle more: Semi-convincing digital erasure of infrastructure.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Hahahaha. Really, that's about all there is to say about "San Andreas" .

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
The movie nicely delivers the computer-generated goods - the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge is pretty spectacular - and if Johnson doesn't quite make it sing, at least it growls suspensefully.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
When the earth is roiling and rippling like an angry ocean, it's an impressive sight. It's when the shaking stops though that San Andreas is a different type of disaster.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
In San Andreas, The Big One finally hits California, and not even Dwayne Johnson's mutant biceps can keep those infamous tectonic plates from separating.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Thankfully, the action set pieces are exciting enough, and come at such a successive clip - "Oh, s-t" may be the film's most repeated line of dialogue - that it's only afterward that you have the chance to pause and ask questions about the plot.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
"San Andreas" changes all too quickly from satisfyingly foolish to dismayingly dumb to genuinely stupid.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
California crumbles spectacularly in an action movie that quickly degenerates from blissfully stupid to fatally stupid.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
It's like Planes, Trains & Automobiles, only with a catastrophic body count.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
Campy but never campy enough and far too numbingly artificial to ever drum up any real suspense or sense of awe, the film has a scale that's squandered on visual witlessness.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
For all the unabashed cliches and straight-faced silliness delivered by Johnson, Paul Giamatti, and their generally capable castmates, they're doing something right.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
As for the story line, there are faults and cracks aplenty. But "San Andreas" does know where its epicenter must be: overdone, loud, anything-but-realistic and enthusiastic destruction sequences.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
The CGI effects in this film, directed by Brad Peyton, are quite remarkable and help take one's mind off the cornball disaster-brings-families-together underpinnings.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I enjoyed large chunks of San Andreas, largely because the actors give it a full load of sincerity, and there's some bizarrely effective comic relief thanks to Hugo Johnstone-Burt and Art Parkinson as Brits who picked the wrong week to visit the Bay Area.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
"San Andreas" is a disaster - literally.

Name : Julia Cooper / Alias : Globe and Mail
San Andreas lacks backbone. Between its steroidic CGI and emotionally vacant plot line, the movie is all flex, no muscle.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Top-notch effects and a bottom-scraping script make this disaster flick a spectacular bore.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
The dialogue is inappropriately jocular throughout, which undercuts the genuine terror it attempts to muster.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
When you think about it, is there anybody else you'd want looking out for you in times of trouble than Johnson?

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The earth of San Andreas cleaves itself open to us like the devil's sunroof. Who are we not to leap into the void?

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
Considered as pure spectacle, "San Andreas" is gripping and effective, as well as a somewhat interesting form of counter-narrative: A vision of near-term apocalypse that has nothing to do with climate change, monsters or alien invaders.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
It's hard to appreciate San Andreas as much more than a series of special effects vistas: impeccably detailed, completely plastic.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Quite literally the blockbuster of the year.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Hell, I'm as up as the next guy for a dumb summer epic with special effects that fire up audiences. But did San Andreas have to be such a monument to stupidity?