It's a ripoff of Dante's Peak (1997)...

Every disaster movie s basically the same plot. If you go on that logic, is a ripoff of Dantes Peak...and Earthquake...and Titanic...etc.etc.etc.

Perhaps an education would serve you better, particularly the history of tsunami in Norway. The film showed a pre-credit montage of the true life catastrophe that had occurred in the region in 1934, though i imagine you are blind as well as dumb which goes some way to explain your failure to easily determine those events took place 8 decades ago, almost a century before your unmemorable Dante's Peak.

Clearly you should've stayed in school.

Definitely don't see it that way. Dante's Peak is totally fictional and supposes what might happen in a non-existent town in the Cascades. It ends with the mountain fully erupting and the good guys barely escaping with everything falling apart behind them. Now, I love Dante's Peak, I felt it was the superior of the two volcano films that rushed to come out at the same time (the other being Tommy Lee Jones's VoLcAno), but it was formulaic.

Compare that to The Wave, which is set in a real place with a real geological formation. Not a *type* of formation but an actual waiting-to-happen-avalanche that you or I could go visit today. It is only a matter of time before it gives way and that town is hit by a tidal wave. The footage at the beginning is real, it is the same event happening elsewhere in Norway to give you an idea of how destructive this is. Then, within the movie itself, the movie doesn't end with the big event. The avalanche and wave happen *in the middle*. The rest is survival and recovery. Dante's Peak and Volcano (and San Andreas and so on and so on) don't go into that third act. Half the movie is about who survives, how, what they need to do to survive and the costs, the sacrifices, involved.

If Dante's Peak included half a movies worth of scenes of digging people out and mourning the loss of friends and family and a thorough tour of the ravaged town (post full eruption) while doing those things, then you'd be right.

Yes, it was similar. Dante's peak was better imo.