A small Norwegian village Geiranger is threatened when mountain pass Åkneset falls out and sets off a violent tsunami of over 80 meters. With only 10 minutes time to escape the approaching catastrophe, the villagers must race agaisnt time to escape to the mountains before the wave wipe them all.
27 November 1963, Gladsaxe, Denmark
11 September 1987, Stavanger, Norway
19 September 1972, Stavanger, Norway
2 July 1968, Norway
8 December 1968, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
11 January 1965, Charlottenlund, Denmark
4 February 1981, Norway
1 August 1975, Bærum, Norway
22 March 1971
January 07, 2017
The Wave may be cut from B-movie cheesecloth, but a fresh, frank perspective is still capable of enlivening old cinematic tropes.March 07, 2016
The movie works; the setting feels grandly unfamiliar, and the aftermath of the wave, with its elemental mix of water and fire, seems like a plausible vision of Hell.March 04, 2016
Something like The Wave is indeed a rarity - without skimping on the spectacle that glues eyeballs to the screen, it takes the time to develop its characters.March 23, 2016
More than anything, The Wave's ability to sustain tension out of its tired scenario makes it even more impressive than its Me Decade ancestors.March 04, 2016
Having laid out my qualms in advance, I am happy to report that The Wave... is pretty good. It's also pretty strange.November 29, 2016
The Wave, based on some actual rockslides from decades ago, may try for a little bit of respectability, but it doesn't have much to say, and then says it in a somber closing credits: Watch out for rockslides, basically.December 12, 2016
As a good, old-fashioned hunk of big-screen disaster, you could do a lot worse than The Wave, say last year's far more expensive and less involving San Andreas.January 02, 2017
he three principal actors are charming and Norwegian movies can always be counted on for sublime scenery -- even when that scenery turns malevolent -- but boy is this thing cliche-ridden and predictable!March 17, 2016
The whole thing is pure formula. But The Wave, which was Norway's official entry for the Academy Awards, makes it work anyway.January 08, 2017
Gives the fright-inducing natural events their due, but also gives the human drama the same courtesy.