Fantastic!! Norwegian films are so good. This one is especially good as it is the first "disaster" film produced in Norway and it far exceeds American made films of this genre. You really care about the characters and the story and the special effects are excellent. It has English subtitles as it is in Norwegian, but don't let that distract you. Also, it is filmed in a gorgeous part of Norway, Geiranger Fjord (google it)and is based on a true story.

Worth watching, falls a bit short of critics reviews. I love a good disaster film - man against nature - this one doesn't disappoint. You only realize it's a 'small' film - in terms of scale- vs a Hollywood film. It excels in story line and characters.The functioning, healthy, loving nuclear family is nice to see for a change. It seems like every Hollywood film about a disaster features families in various disfunctional states. Also there is a non explicit loving sexuality on the screen between the parents that is very European and so not American. fEven the cliche teenager who puts others in peril due to his/her insolence is treated softer and more real in this film. In American films the teenager is such an idiot they deserve to die. This one not so. The story line is familiar - smart scientist has a hunch no one else believes, he's about to leave his work behind, but is pulled back in by necessity. Maybe it's the acting or the fact that a sterotypical storyline sounds deeper in Norwegian- but you go with it and I didn't roll my eyes once. Once the wave hits, there are various life/death situations portrayed and just when you think it is over, it's not.

I see a lot of comments below about the subtitles. 1. if you rent from Amazon and discover it's subtitled, I do believe they will refund your money, so no reason to be giving this film 1 star based on that. And 2. i'm not a subtitle fan, but I didn't mind it, the story and visuals really carry you. You'll get swept away (pun intended) in the film and not notice them.

I watched this film accidentally, thinking it was another film of the same name. I don’t usually watch disaster films, but this one is pretty good. It starts with some clips about a rockslide in Norway in 1912 that buries a village and kills its inhabitants. So you know where this is going. The main character is a geologist who monitors some nearby mountains to get advance warning about impending events. There are some unusual readings on the monitors, but he doesn’t have any evidence that anything is afoot—just a feeling. Interwoven with the impending disaster is the story of the geologists family. It seems to be falling apart: disaffected teen, unhappy wife, etc. So this isn’t just the story of the break up of a mountain and the results tsunami but also the story of a family struggling not to come apart. Will this family survive physically? Will the family fall apart under stress or will taking care of each other be exactly what enable them to survive? Despite being in Norwegian, the film feels pretty American. The acting and the cinematography are good.

" Geiranger is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, and
has been named the best travel destination in Scandinavia by Lonely Planet.
Since 2005, the Geirangerfjord area has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Geiranger is under constant threat from the mountain Åkerneset which could erode
into the fjord. A collapse could cause a tsunami that could destroy downtown Geiranger."
Wikipedia

Understanding where Geiranger is and risk of living there is center to this film.
It is such a tourist attraction, that 120-140 cruise ships a year dock to see the beauty.
It us here we meet Kristian, played by Kristoffer Joner, who is an engineer employed by
Geiranger Warning Center. The warning center is necessary to overlook all of the
data that may foretell a rockslide. Many of us remember the tusnami that occurred in
Japan after an earthquake. A rockslide can do the same. We follow Kristian and his
family who are packing up for a move to a new city and a new job. This film is about
his warning that something was happening, but everyone else said it was a mistake.

The film is realistic and provides a lot of tense moments, and of course, it revolves
around Kristian and his family. If you like action oriented tense films, this one is for you. Plus
we get to see this beautiful area of Norway.

Recommended. prisrob 07-27-16

I don't usually rent non-english movies, but couldn't pass this one up. It was great if you like disaster flicks. It is actually way more realistic then most hollywood disaster movies which was nice because they didn't try to have a man speeding through the side of a collapsing building to rescue his family. Instead it was normal people caught in a horrible wave trying to survive.

The content of the movie is OK, but the concept behind it is mind boggling. So we live at the end of a fjord. At the other end is a huge mountain that will inevitably produce massive rockslides into the fjord. When that happens there will be a tidal wave 80 meters tall that will completely wipe out the town. We have all the high tech equipment needed to prove this is going to happen. When it does happen we will have 10 minutes to get out of town and up the mountain. So what do we do - we continue to stay here and simply wait for the alarm then we all try to leave at once which will completely clog the highway leading out of town. Sounds like a GREAT plan. If you survive, you should check out buying some land located on the San Andreas fault line, or maybe build a little weekend home on the slope of Mt. Vesuvius. DUUHHH

My guilty movie pleasure is the disaster flick, starting with those 70s classics The Towering Inferno plus all the Airport movies I saw when I was a kid. Asteroids or comets about to hit earth, Mayan Apocalypse, tsunamis, nuclear winters, earthquakes, climate change, the sun exploding, planets colliding — the more cataclysmic the better. These films can get pretty far-fetched, but everything about this movie is completely believable. The special effects are exceptionally stunning, you will be awed by the massive wave. The characters are just real people, no overly theatrical heroes you know from moment one are going to save the world or die trying. No spoilers, but there are a couple of deep fakes you will not see coming.

This is a movie about a geological disaster that will happen: a mountainside collapse into a fjord creating a local, deadly tsunami. It is in Norwegian, with English subtitles -- but that is really incidental; you become submerged in this movie quite quickly and often forget that need to read.

The movie bears no resemblance whatever to a Hollywood disaster trope. There are no contrived plot-points; no terribly fake relationships. Only one cliche of note, and that forgivable. The Wave is crafted so that everything follows in its inevitability from initial precepts that greet you in the first minutes. The tension builds slowly and steadily, tautened like a steel rope until it sings under stress and must surely part. The acting is top-notch, perfectly natural; no too-pretty actors with their precious lines or precocious, clingy kids. Nobody quotes Dylan Thomas repeatedly. The camera amplifies everything, choreographed perfectly to accompany, not dominate, the scene. Likewise, the score is matched precisely, tone to image. It never creates its own solo bubble that might wash out the play.

When the terrible event occurs you see all the things as they might happen in real life. None too heroic or pathetic; nothing over the top; no magical saves. People in brief instant facing catastrophe, moving on, doing the needed thing. Connecting and assisting where they can. You will see moments warm and horrible, and will hold your breath more than once.

This one is among the best in its class, and is not to be missed.