NEIL WHITE'S MUST-SEE MOVIES
THE IMPOSSIBLE
I defy any parent not to well up during The Impossible.
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This is not only a disaster movie of the very highest order but it has a greater emotional pull than almost all of the 1,280 movies I have seen over the last two years and a bit.
It surrounds the true story of a family who spent Christmas 2004 at the idyllic Thai resort of Khao Lak.
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One minute they are playing in their beachside hotel pool, the next one of history's biggest tsunamis sweeps through.
The way this devastation is re-enacted is nothing short of genius and the chaos in the aftermath of the tidal wave is astounding.
Meanwhile, Naomi Watts is Oscar-worthy as the mother who defies life-threatening injuries to help her son survive.
As the hullabaloo surrounding Les Misérables reaches fever pitch, publicity for The Impossible has been a bit lost. I'll put that right by saying that I doubt that we will see much better in 2013.
RATING: 9.5/10
CERTIFICATE: 12A
SHOWING AT: Derby Quad and multiplexes
Comments
by brspondon
Friday, January 11 2013, 12:21PM
“This has got to be one of the most tasteless inappropriate films ever made. To make 'entertainment' out of a catastrophe of appalling proportions, in which 250,000 mainly indigenous, poor people died, and millions lost everything, and to focus on one white, presumably well off, family, is awful. Yes, I'm sure that family suffered, but millions have still not recovered from what is, after all, still fresh in the memory.”