10.0 Earthquake (2014) poster
2014 · drama · adventure · action · disaster

10.0 Earthquake

Directed by David Gidali1h 28m2014
ElsewhereIMDb3.53k
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, measured drama / adventure, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Los Angeles is about to be hit by a devastating earthquake, and time is running out to save the city from imminent danger.

Our read · 10.0 Earthquake (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded drama · adventure · action entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a low-budget disaster race with mini-quakes and cheesy vignettes.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upsexual violencenudity

Skip it tonightYou want smart effects, deep characters, or no date-rape subplot.

If 10.0 Earthquake is your film
Twister (1996)
storm-chasing disaster with personal stakes and effects
(much bigger budget and more heroic)
Dante's Peak (1997)
scientist racing to warn of looming natural disaster
(more straightforward volcano action)
San Andreas (2015)
large-scale earthquake destruction and rescue focus
(modern CGI spectacle and The Rock)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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