I'm never watching this film again!! 😭😭 But you can watch me go through the entire traumatic ordeal here lol🤪: www.patreon.com/user?u=23309427

Tom Holland deserved an Oscar for this.

The scene where Lucas and the Swedish boy hug gets me everytime

I'm glad Naomi got an Oscar nom for this, but I really wish Tom had gotten one as well - he carries so much of the story and emotions, and does it flawlessly.

Miraculously, the family whose story is told in The Impossible all survived the disaster. Though the Bennet family in The Impossible is British, the real family that inspired the film is from Spain. María Belón, a physician, and her husband Enrique Álvarez were in Khao Lak, Thailand with their three sons, Lucas, Simón and Tomás when the tsunami struck.

Just found your channel. Your reaction is how most of us reacted to this movie. Maria was injured must worse than the film could portray, including broken bones. She spent four months in the Singapore hospital undergoing sixteen surgeries. The family has stayed in touch with Karl, his wife and daughter did perish in the tsunami. They lost touch with Daniel and his father. Lucas was 10 at the time, and actually reunited 73 people. He’s now a doctor living in France.

I always feel a duty to mention the local population who worked tirelessly to save as many people as they could. The scene with the mother being helped by the locals to get them to hospital was replicated thousands upon thousands of times by the people who lived there. Many of these local people lost everything themselves, but they still did everything they could to help anyone who needed it. That part of the disaster is seldom talked about, but the people of Indonesia deserve a lot of praise for the way they responded. They've also rebuilt so much of what was lost. The resort featured is real, and it's still there. They've developed systems to evacuate if there's ever another threat like this, with evacuation routes taking people to higher ground and signs posted all along the coast to direct people in an emergency.

227,898 people died. This family all surviving is The Impossible!

Your headache after watching this must have been insane lol.

The part that gets me the most in this film is the ending when Henry turns over the piece of paper from the man he was with and it’s a note from his wife that they’re at the beach 😭

I also just cry for 2 hours when I watch this film.

The old lady who sits down with Thomas and talks about the stars that have burned out is Charlie Chaplin’s daughter, Geraldine Chaplin.

The real Lucas is a doctor today. He said in an interview that this experience was the main reason.

It amazes me how our brain can face strong and difficult moments to survive and not collapse. A friend of mine got sick while on vacation in another country and I had to help his wife deal with paperwork and talk to people because they didn't speak the same language. Unfortunately, my friend died in the ambulance (in which she and I were going to transport him to another city). Once again, I had to be the interpreter and stay strong so we could return home. The moment I got into my mother's car, I started crying my heart out.

fun fact: JA Bayona said Society of the Snow inspired the title for this film, he said that Roberto Canessa mentioned surviving the impossible around five times and that’s when he found the title for this film.

First time I have seen this movie , I was a mess. I couldn't stop crying. And when the little boys, such good actors , "Look, it's Lucas.... LUCAS!" and they start running, I was bawling, like, almost-hyperventilating crying. Tom Holland made me fall in love with him in this movie. I watched a few documentaries about this tragedy, and it has been even more horrible than what we are seeing here. God bless those families

when Henry turns over the piece of paper from the man he was with and it’s a note from his wife that they’re at the beach its so gut wrenching, its litlerally the last thing of them AND HE GAVE IT TO AWAY TO HELP HIM

Crying just means you have great empathy for people and that’s never a bad thing ❤

Fun fact When you keep saying Lucas is so strong. Might like to know real Lucas became a doctor. He used to say he felt too helpless and his way to cope was to become a doctor so he would be even better. The family says the big innacuracies are the ball was yellow, not red. Maria got naked in the wave so she was naked till rescued. She was in worse shape at the end vs the movie and they did not fly home together. Its like she could not fly back to japan for some time and they had to get the kids back in school without her. Guy who had wife and kid at the beach....well....no luck I seem to remember Daniels real father did a cameo in the movie.

Watched this with my older sister a couple of months ago. We cried basically the entire movie 😭 Up next for us is Society of the Snow and we’re not ready lol

Maybe it sounds weird but "The Impossible" is one of my comfort movies, I watch whenever I need to cry and let my emotions flow, it is just so amazing and well done, and yes, I see myself in you, I start criying even before the tsunami hits the coast and stay that way through all of it. Every. Single. Time. One of my favourite movies ever. Thanks for your reaction

27:07 You need to watch "Train to Busan" it's a korean zombie movie but the second half makes you cry every 15 minutes lol

This movie was hard as hell for me to watch, especially cause I was in Thailand when the tsunami hit, and it was only thanks to a last-minute change of plans by my parents that we weren't in one of the areas hit. Some of my earliest memories are the chaos on the streets afterwards, people were distraught over losing loved ones (including some hotel workers we'd gotten to know), refugees from the affected regions started pouring in, loads of people were volunteering to travel out and help the recovery efforts (my dad tried, but they had too many people already), just generally everything was solemn beyond belief. A lot of people back home also didn't know our plans had changed and thought we were dead cause they couldn't get a hold of us, I had teachers shocked to see me when I got back to school and giving me tight hugs and tearing up

It was a very shocking event for my country. And hope it won't happen again. However, your reaction is such amazing.. support from Thailand.

“I’m gonna cry!” while actively crying is such a mood

Tsunamis aren’t a single massive wave but a series of waves and each is different and is affected by differences in coastlines. Sometimes the first wave is the largest, other times it’s the second or third, or they are all about the same in size. On some coastlines in some situations the water recedes beforehand but in others that doesn’t happen and there’s no warning as a surge just pours in. And while some movies have depicted tsunamis as obvious giant multi-story high waves visible from a distance, they are often seen at a distance as only a slight line of a slightly higher wave until just meters from the beach. And in some cases the first wave is so slight it appears as minor slow moving flooding that one can walk away from until it suddenly picks up speed and grows. So, if you are ever lucky enough to get a warning, take it seriously and seek higher ground and stay there until a significant length of time passes after the first few waves to ensure it’s over. And don’t assume an initial small surge means it’s safe as a bigger wave could be imminent.

I’ve watched it like 5 times. People helping people, young Tom Hollins acting skills, the cinematography, everything! Such a good film!

Bayona is just the best director in Spain and currently one of the best in the world. Period.

My teacher in high school was there with her husband and 3 kids when the tsunami hit. Their story is similar to the one in this movie, and if I remember correctly, certain parts of this movie involves part of her story as well. Her son's name is Mårten, but not Bernström, which makes me think the little boy Lucas helps is her son? Maybe? I didn’t ask her.

this reaction definitely didn’t disappointed i honesty don’t think their was a moment i wasn’t crying when i wanted it for the first time as well😭, would love to see you continue to do more disaster films as their one of my fav genres - the day after tomorrow is a personal favorite

So. I’ve been debating with myself whether to write anything or not. So if this is posted, I guess have. I haven’t written about this in almost two decades, but watching this film with Niall has got me motivated again, for some reason. I was in eastern Sri Lanka that morning, just outside the town of Batticaloa. I had gone to visit a university friend of mine who was in turn visiting his family. We were visiting an aunty of his about a mile or so inland when the waves hit so I didn’t actually see the water. The first inkling we had that something was wrong was a sort of low rumbling roar, kinda like very distant thunder that you feel more than hear, with a faint high pitched sound on top, which in hindsight I think was the sound of people screaming and shouting. But it was all very distant and faint sounding. I remember we all looked at each other because it was a beautiful sunshiney day, without a cloud in the sky. So we were puzzled by what we thought was distant thunder. Within a few minutes the mobile phone system was overwhelmed with text messages about the sea flooding in, and then the system quickly collapsed under the sheer number of messages. The system was down for the next two days or so. Trigger warning for the following. More puzzled than alarmed we headed to the suburb of Kallady, which was situated on a flat spit of land between Batticaloa town and the ocean. It’s where my little guest house was, just a few minutes stroll from the surf. The first thing I saw was a stream of people, some injured, many soaked to the skin, streaming across the bridge separating Kallady from the town center. As we walked further into Kallady, we could immediately see the destruction; the area was purely residential and by the time we walked a couple minutes towards my guesthouse, there wasn’t any construction more than a couple feet high still standing. There was debris everywhere, which made walking tricky. One of the things that sticks out in my memory was the sound. How to explain it? There was this unearthly undulating high pitched keening, occasionally punctuated with legible shouts or screams. But to my memory, in aggregate it was a sort of drone which, to be frank, was completely unnerving and I never wish to hear again. And, oddly, I remember on top of that, there was the loud cawing of panicked crows. Eventually I made it to my guesthouse and, quite simply, there wasn’t anything there. Well no, there was the cement foundation, at a crazy angle, and the well, which was tilted at a 45 degree angle and filled with wet sand. There was a Hindu temple a few dozen feet away, that had been completely undermined by the water and was at a half tipped over. A small Catholic church had had it’s concrete copula flung down the beach, landing on its side. I was completely stunned by what I was seeing and I was half thinking that maybe this was some sort of fever dream or hallucination or something. It just didn’t seem real. That is, until I started to notice the bodies. When you’re in that sort of situation you don’t notice the bodies at first. I think it must be some sort of denial defense mechanism or something. But once you lay eyes on the first one, and you realize what it is you’re looking at, you suddenly notice ALL of them, and you can’t unsee them. Super trigger warning. I ended up staying a week, trying to be helpful although sometimes I wonder if I wasn’t more of a burden than a help. The hardest thing for me to do were the days when I helped collect the bodies and bring them to the hospital (at first) and then to wherever there was enough space. Honestly, I don’t know how I, or any of the other people who helped, did it. I supposed being shocked to core and thus numb was a big help. I still have trouble remembering those days; they are more of a blur than anything else. But I do have one incredibly vivid memory which has never left me; I and another guy came across a woman. She was naked, as the force of the water had ripped her clothes off but what was truly horrible, and I’m not sure I’ve gotten over this, was that her long hair had gotten tangled in a barbed wire fence and so she drowned. I can not get the sight of her hair out of my mind. It was three or four days before the government was able to reach us in any systematic way; you have to keep in mind that there was a civil war happening at the time and large chunks of the east coast were unsafe for travel. In fact the first outside help came the day after the waves hit; a couple US Navy ships that were transiting from SE Asia to the Middle East happened to be in the area, and I guess we were the closest bit of land to them. They came ashore not far from my former guest house and set up a field hospital, distributed supplies and did what little they could. I didn’t see “The Impossible” in a theater because I didn't know about it. I ended up staying on the east coast of Sri Lanka working to rebuild after the tsunami, and later, the civil war. The area is remote and so I only heard about the movie a couple of years after it came out, while I was visiting friends back home. I’ve got to admit that when I did rent it, back when DVDs were still a thing, I had to fast-forward through a lot of it. Surprisingly (maybe) I was fine with the tsunami part of it, but the aftermath… that’s hard to watch. The last thing I want to say is that this movie is about the experience of a very lucky, privileged, white family in a highly developed part of Asia. I do not mean to disparage the survivors; what they went through was more “real” that what most people will ever experience. I also understand why the movie makers wanted to focus on the people they did; big names bring big ticket sales and video rentals. And I think perhaps Western audiences can more easily relate to and empathize with Western characters, especially a family. It’s an important story to tell, regardless of the viewpoint. But I wish the movie did a tiny bit more to remind Western audiences that the VAST majority of those killed were like the woman with the long hair: brown, mostly poor, mostly non-Christian, and, as far as the world is concerned, anonymous. I’m still not sure if I’m going to post this.

Thank you for following the recommendation we made after watching Society Of The Snow. We told you that Bayona is the master of realism. This movie is one of the best, I cried with you again.

J.A. Bayona... god, he has made us cry for years with his movies

Exactly... the part where he went connecting people's families in the hospital is the first scene that got me.

I saw this in theaters when it came out and just sobbed 😭 survival films are such kryptonite but the humanity in it is what hits so hard. All these intersecting lives, pulling each other out of the muck, it's... It's something else. Can't be beat. I hope such a devastating event never happens again. But films like this help us to not forget, you know? 💜

Cold compress to the face and a lie down in a dark room after watching this heart wrenching film! Those boys acted out of their socks! Props for getting through it, it's traumatising to think what all those thousands of those poor folk went through! 😥

Bayona is a BEAST, this movie and SOTN are his best works imo

ewan’s cry while he’s talking on the phone is what really got me first time watching the movie. 21:24

This movie literally killed me the first time I watched it , it’s soo heartbreaking , and I watched it with my brothers and sisters , it was so silent everyone was just trying not to cry😭😭

Niall, you should never be ashamed of crying about a true story this emotional. Well done for watching and reacting to this. Tom Holland was amazing as Lucas ! xx

Omg i didn’t remember this movie being this sad, I cried with you the whole video😂😭 love your necklace 💕

I'm so thrilled that this film is starting to get the recognition it deserves. Thank you for sharing your reaction.

As a mum with 3 young boys, watching this movie is a beautiful reminder how to get through some of the days that feel too hard. All of the feelings that nearly drown me, also keep me afloat...

The fact that Ewan McGregor didn't get an Oscar nomination for this is an injustice. I don't like that they whitewashed the cast, but this film, and the true story, of course, is amazing

i cry at the drop of a hat when it comes to films/tv series and cried for almost the entirety of this film my first time watching it and while watching your reaction to it so you're absolutely not alone 😭😭

Next one, try to watch “The Others” by Alejandro Amenabar with Nicole Kidman. You will maybe cry too but I’m sure you will watch it again 😉

Awww darling, forgive me but I do like it when you cry... 😢 Don't worry, I cry with you. This is a powerful movie.

They showed my class this in geography back in 2014. We were SOBBING😂

the empathy you showed in this video was beautiful. never apologize for that.

Never apologize for your emotions! Your kindness and empathy for others is part of what makes us love your channel ❤

Not many other movies have made me cry like this one, but "Manchester by the sea" is there on the top of the list. Quite a different vibe but if you want your heartstrings ripped and a nuanced depiction of grief I greatly recommend it.

NOT ME CRYING THE WHOLE VIDEO TWO😭😭😭 I DIDNT REMEMBERED THAT THE FILM WAS THAT SAD😭😭😭

The first time I watch this film, I didn’t expect I would be crying watching the whole film also. It’s like a roller coaster.

This was the BEST reaction of this movie I ever watched, and I watched a lot!! Thank you!!! Your humanity was showing and it was beautiful ❤😊

I’m literally crying while watching this 😢 just like you I cried in every sad moment, I wanna watch a behind the scenes because it’s incredibly made.

Your emotions are beautiful and do you credit! 💜 This is one of my top five films even though I’ve only seen it twice. It’s hard to watch but it’s stunning in every way and so special. Hard to pick a stand out performance by the cast, they were all so good!! Thank you for sharing your reaction with us.

Oh, my poor emotional friend. You don't have to apologize for crying--especially since it's what everyone who suggested this movie seemed to want to see anyway, haha. Have to admit I found it a little funny how often you said "I'm gonna cry" when your face was already covered in tears. On the real, wonderful reaction and I appreciate the vulnerability. I'll be back for more!

Putting Niall through The Impossible should be against the Geneva Convention! 😭

Now you all are on BAYONA 's you must see "EL ORFANATO". It's soooooo f beautiful. And obviously you're gonna cry

When the boys find each other gets me everytime 😭😭😭

I always believed the scene where the woman said "I've been saving my strength to see him again" is the wife that left the 'we're at the beach note', idk if it was ever proven or not but it's something that always stood out to me.😢

Jeez you had me crying the entire time with you. I usually cry watching this movie or reactions but I've never cried the entire time! You got me!

Naomi Watts was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Tom Holland won lots of awards for Best Lead Actor and Best Young Actor, while Ewan McGregor was nominated a few times in the Supporting category. I couldn’t tell that you were crying because you were smiling and laughing at the same time. It doesn’t matter, I cried enough for both of us. This is one of the best films of all time and I’ll watch it again when I can share it with someone. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

This is definitely a tough watch. The only film I can think of in recent memory that made me cry as hard as this was All of Us Strangers. You should definitely watch that one someday too, but maybe take a few weeks to recover from this one first lol.

Going through the JA Bayona collection with this and Society of the Snow

I was 14 when my town was hit by a natural disaster that claimed over 150 lives. In the aftermath, I acted as a runner and transported supplies and information. This movie is really getting to me, but at least I don’t have to experience it alone. Thanks for crying with me, Niall.

19:25 in october i had to call an ambulance for my little sister (17). i don’t want to get into what happened, but while she and my dad got into the ambulance and went to the hospital, i stayed home and had to stay strong and try to console my little brother (11) who was in shock and absolutely terrified for her. trying to keep positive for him and not break down crying in a panic was one of the hardest things i’ve ever had to do

The three brothers are all Hollands which adds to their beautiful connection on screen.

This is the most amazing, realistic, phenomenal acting! This is my favourite movie of all time, I watched it many times and I cry every time ❤

I sat here for 5 minutes trying to think of a film that had me crying the entire time and I couldn't think of one. the only film that even comes close is Schindler's List. if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it because it's amazing but definitely another "one and done" film. thanks for the reaction, Niall. I hope you didn't get a headache after this! ❤

I cried hard during this movie, but I cried just as bad watching «My Sisters Keeper» 🥺 What really gets me with this movie is that its real, it happened. This movie is based on a true story of a family on holiday when the Tsunami happened.

I always SOB with this movie, but this director always makes movies equal parts horrifying and beautiful. Still, I love your reactions so much that I am back at it crying 😭

He’s got to return that note to the poor father who lost his wife and two year old. That’s the last moment of communication he had with his family.

I want you to watch Miracle in Cell No. 7! It's a Korean film and I bet you would cry you balls out I SWEAR!! Please do watch it though! I want to suffer with you lmaoo. Would love to relive my suffering while watching that movie 😂😂😂

May I recommend you A Monster Calls and The Orphanage, from Bayona too. Crying together is the best way to cry

Something I learned from somewhere else, if you see he sea start pulling back run. Run as fast as you can screaming all the way. If the ocean is receding it’s getting pulled into a tsunami and you need to get to high ground FAST. The faster you notice the more time you have. Also if you are in a boat your best bet is to actually go over it because the deeper the ocean floor is the smaller the bump of the wave will be. That is how many survive tsunamis is being lucky enough for it to go under them far enough out it’s like a regular wave. Many of those people will have no idea there was a tsunami because it seems like a normal wave. Tsunamis are insane and we can tell where they will happen based on tectonic activity. If there is an earthquake along a fault or where two tectonic plates meet it will cause a tsunami in all directions if it’s entirely underwater. And base on that we can project where it will hit land. There is one specific area that has loads of seismic activity and the surrounding countries get lots of tsunamis because of it. (Found it it’s the pacific oceanic plate meeting the North American and Eurasian plates: also known as the ring of fire.))The issue is it moves so fast and can be so close to shore that there isn’t enough time to warn anyone.

The Tsunami literally traumatized me as a kid, every time I would flip through my dads disc album I would cover up this films disk, I had nightmares about it, I straight up hallucinated waves through my street that scene MESSED ME UP for a week 😭😭😭

Please stop apologizing for crying, I cried through this whole move, and still do every time I watch it again with a reactor. I don’t see how anyone could be human and not cry.

Horror is my favorite genre... I've seen probably just about any horror film you can name. When I tell you this movie scared me like no horror film could, it's no lie. I had a visceral, physical reaction to this. It's absolutely horrifying. The tsunami comes with very little warning, kills hundreds of thousands, in a single instant you are washed away into chaos and destruction, utterly separated and lost... and if you're only broken and mangled, you're one of the lucky ones. So many people are just impaled, crushed, drowned, etc. And it comes in multiple waves. You see that first wave, and it's horrifying enough, and then the second wave comes... and you have to realize it wasn't just those two waves. It was SEVERAL 30+ ft high waves coming in like that. You survive the first wave, you still have to worry about the next, and the next, and the next... You're not the only one who sobbed the whole way through this movie-- from that first moment Naomi hugs the tree and is just screaming, alone, in the water, I started crying and probably didn't stop until the film was over.

Okay I’m finally in the mood to cry. I’ve been saving this for the right time. And it’s today lol

I live in a country that is used to this events (earthquakes and tsunamis), I live in Chile, and since we are kinda use to it it's so powerful and moving to see it from another perspective. When we see on the news that there was an earthquake or a tsunami at anywhere else and see the grading being like 5,0, normally we´ll go and say (insensitive) that that's not a big deal (for ur understanding we are use to earthquakes of 6.0 or higher, we only consider it as dangerous when it goes up of 6.8 or else). this movie kinda open my mind to see those events from another perspective, there are countries that can be destroyed by the minimus earth movement as we (Chile) probably will be if we have a tornado. Its powerful and moving fr

Want to hear something? I wint forget this boxing day tsunami because a famous celebrity in our country went to Thailand for Christmas with her family. And it was all over the news you know, her being there at the location. She sent videos of the tsunami taken from their hotel bedroom which was on the upper floor. She said that she didn't know how to feel because there was a mess up with the rooms, their room was suppose to be at the lower ground, but they got the other family's room which was at the upper floor. The hotel boy said to Maria earlier that there was some kind of a mess up with the rooms, if that part was true...

You are just a joy to watch! So open! ❤️

I watched this with my mom when it first came out and we both BAWLED through the whole thing. I remember Tom Holland being so young and acting the hell out of this role and I told my mom “if this kid doesn’t have the best career, something is wrong with Hollywood”.

This film… Every time I watch it I cry like I know they are ok now but like… But although it is sad it is a great movie the acting is good and so on

Kinda late here, but I've been so in the mood for any The Impossible reaction. Still haven't seen Society of the Snow, but if it's from the same director as this, it's definitely worth it. Almost everyone knows Tom Holland as Spider-Man, when he has so many other epic roles such as this one. Even with veterans like Naomi and Ewan, he was the one who stole the show 😭

The old woman by the fire, looking at the stars is Geraldine Chaplain, Charlie Chaplin's daughter.

I think you handled this film better than I did, I bawled so hard I got a horrible migraine. I went through many tissues for this one!

I’ve never seen this movie. However one day I walked in on my parents watching it and it was the part she walked out and it showed her injured leg. That was enough for me to get sick to my stomach and ever since then I’ve remembered the name of this movie and just that one image. It will randomly pop up in my mind. It’s been years and I still remember it so vividly seeing that as a kid. Edit: literally sitting here watching you react… 15mins in and I don’t know if I can make it through😂🙃 like… I’m strugglin

Notifs gang 💪

What likely saved d them is that they, being close to the water, were ahead of most of the debris while they were being pushed inland.

I love watching people cry over this movie, BTW I cry every time also.

You can watch the film of J.A. BAYONA "A MONSTER CALL" Amazing film of this spaniard director of Barcelona. Please react!!!

You’re such a sweetheart❤ always enjoy your videos.

In the past I have only cried in the scene where all the kids hug, but this reaction has made me cry during the whole ordeal... What the heck?

The Impossible is probably the most emotional movie I've ever seen but it's really well done. Please react to Titanic (hopefully you haven't watched it yet). One of the best movies ever and also very emotional.

The fact that i saw this AT SCHOOL WHEN I WAS 12/13 😭😭 The traumaaaa

Subbed. Nothing I love more than emotional intelligence. Seen this so many times, but I am an empath and can’t help but sob when another’s emotions are real. You’re beautiful. :) never apologize for having a beautiful soul. That older woman on the mountain is Charlie Chaplins grandchild I believe. ;)

I sore this in the pictures. I left a mess 😢 Never sat through it again 😞 too sressful but mind blowing how it effected these people's lives. This film it literal emotional trauma ❤

This is, weirdly, on of my favorite movies. It is so cathartic and it made me fall in love with Tom Holland.