The Impossible

On Tuesday, February 5, 2013, I went to see the movie The Impossible.  This movie features Ewen McGregor and Naomi Watts and it talks about the true story of a family who went to Thailand for holiday in 2004 and was victims of the giant tsunami.

The story is as follows, you have the family and they are spending time on a resort...  They have no idea that the tsunami is coming...  It hits them and people are dragged off to places...  This family gets split up...  The mother gets swept away by the water along with the eldest son and the father and the other two children were in the swimming pool when the tsunami hit.

I won't go into all of the details as to what happens in the movie, but I think the director did a very good job to recreate the atmosphere and the panic...    I also think that the director did a very good job of the smaller details (one particular scene in the hospital comes to mind, when Naomi Watts and the woman beside her both eat a bit of a tangerine and then they vomit out mud and chunks of seaweed)

This movie was good...  A worthwhile watch...  I didn't think it was as good as Les Misérables, but that's okay.  I know that Naomi Watts is up for an Oscar nod in the best actress category...  She did have a good performance.  However, I have not seen all of the other performances so I can't say whether or not she will get the Oscar for it...