2015 · disaster · thriller · action
The Wave
Directed by Roar Uthaug1h 45m2015
Although theorised, no one is really ready when a mountain pass above the scenic and narrow Geiranger fjord in Norway collapses and creates a tsunami over 300 feet high. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.
Our read: The Wave (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded disaster · thriller · action entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme disaster / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
Watching The Wave tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
Availability in the UK · via JustWatch
More info & search links
How The Wave feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a real-geology disaster thriller that hits hard once the wave arrives.”
Skip it tonight — Subtitled family peril and drowning terror are too heavy for tonight.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like The Wave, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →