"Tsunami" is more than you normally can expect from a TV-Movie, with a small TV-Budget. Its 90 minutes fun, a very straight mainstream-plot and really good CGI. I found it better than many other TV-Disaster-Movies.
But what's more interesting: after the terrible Tsunami catastrophe in the Indian Ocean it was of course - just a matter of time for a tsunami-movie dealing with this topic. But the film company had already finished the movie shortly before (for Pro7-Channel). After the real tsunami, the release of movie was held back from the channel for six months. Then released, in turned out to an incredible success concerning the TV-quotas and deservedly so. In the web you can read, that "Tsunami", was realized by a young crew, just coming from the film academy. And the movie absolutely fulfilled my expectations of the genre. Its surprising, that the CGI-effects in some shots even look better than in "Perfect Storm" although the CGI-Specialists had to get along with the daylight-setting, which is always a problem for realistic CGI.
I also loved, to see Dan van Husen again (a film-veteran from the "italo western") and my all time favorite bad guy. To sum up, "Tsunami" is absolutely well done for a TV-Project. Its great produced and internationally the most sold German TV-movie of all times.
But what's more interesting: after the terrible Tsunami catastrophe in the Indian Ocean it was of course - just a matter of time for a tsunami-movie dealing with this topic. But the film company had already finished the movie shortly before (for Pro7-Channel). After the real tsunami, the release of movie was held back from the channel for six months. Then released, in turned out to an incredible success concerning the TV-quotas and deservedly so. In the web you can read, that "Tsunami", was realized by a young crew, just coming from the film academy. And the movie absolutely fulfilled my expectations of the genre. Its surprising, that the CGI-effects in some shots even look better than in "Perfect Storm" although the CGI-Specialists had to get along with the daylight-setting, which is always a problem for realistic CGI.
I also loved, to see Dan van Husen again (a film-veteran from the "italo western") and my all time favorite bad guy. To sum up, "Tsunami" is absolutely well done for a TV-Project. Its great produced and internationally the most sold German TV-movie of all times.