“The Impossible” Review

The tsunami that hit the Pacific Basin on Boxing Day in the winter of 2004 was one of the worst natural disasters ever.

This changed the lives of thousands a day after loved ones celebrated Christmas. Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona rein acts the terror and gripping international lives of a true-life story of a Spanish family who has torn apart on a day they wouldn’t have ever imagined.

As a mum, played by Naomi Watts, lies injured in hospital, Dad (McGregor) and older son Lucas played by Holland Barlow, reunite their loved ones of a family of five.

A gripping, heart-dropping movie which hit the cinemas with a jaw-dropping view of how locals and tourists strive to say their lives and loved ones through nothing more than debris and mashed land waters, a visual outlook on disaster and tragedy created by mother earth.

They are dealing with the devastation that the disaster has caused and the worry that they might never see the rest of the family again.

An Emotionally moving adventure that takes you through the midst of the wounded. Changing lives forever the director also takes us on an emotional ride for not just the family but the other characters and locals, showing all those affected by such a ghastly event.

Many people never saw their relatives or loved ones again. The visually painted image of wreckage and the surrounding atmosphere engulfs you, making you feel as if you were there.

Struggling for help and contacting others, the fear of a repeating wave, walls of unfound loved ones, and tourists’ lack of understanding of the English language make a living in terror a harrowing nightmare.

The acting in the movie is gasping Watts and McGregor—shows true indications of the pain they suffer and the sorrow in which they feel helpless and scared.

Watts portrays pain and helplessness but is still in need of being strong and being able to comfort her child.

Showing such agonizing grace which lets you feel her pain and life fighting wounds. Ewan McGregor, who plays Harry, plays a kind father who is overwhelmed by the disaster, and whose weary, tired, and most likely unsuccessful protagonist will most likely fail—showing his pain in such a lost hope.

The children are particularly compelling. Showing a true-life situation of being faced with unpredictable tragedy.

Tom Holland playing Lucas Bennett is extremely impressive, such a young boy he performs so maturely in order to cope with the fear of losing his loved ones while having too strong for his mother.

A true-life story being brought to the big screen will leave you in complete shock of the scary world we do in fact live in and how your life could change at any moment. If having watching films like “into the wild” or “127 hours” This is truly a movie you will appreciate and fall into emotionally.

The impossible is one of those films which takes us back to history and how things can never be changed; a second can affect a lifetime. demonstrating how precious our lives are and how they should not be taken for granted out of greed or cruelty.