This is one of the best pure disaster movies ever made (not that it has much competition). Congratulations to director Mick Jackson for a job well done.
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Volcano (1997)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:13
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: When an earthquake triggers a giant burst of lava from the La Brea Tar Pits, sending great spews of lava all over various Los Angeles neighborhoods and causing all manner of flaming magma mayhem,... [More]
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle
Director: Mick Jackson
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Reviews for Volcano
Top CriticLike the substantially better Twister, this film insists on a thunderous, exhausting pace that inevitably becomes deflating.
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Top CriticA ridiculous script and mediocre special effects mar this ludicrous disaster pic.
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Volcano is an embarrassment, albeit one of the so-bad-it's-kinda-good variety.
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The visuals are colorful, but the script is just terrible.
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It's your basic disaster-movie scenario: tragedy strikes, an adorable dog is placed in danger's path and rescues itself at the last moment, humanity triumphs over the awesome powers of nature, blah blah blah.
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I don't want to pay $7.50 to watch a movie imitate CNN.
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These things can be done well or badly, and Volcano goes full steam ahead.
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It seems films like Volcano exist mainly because they're expensive to make and thus easy to market as expensive. To wit: Volcano cost $90 million before advertising! It's an epic!
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Volcano is an absolutely standard, assembly-line undertaking; no wonder one of the extras is reading a paperback titled "Screenwriting Made Easy."
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Top CriticMore about spectacle than suspense, a very impressive production which is easier to enjoy from a detached distance than it is to get caught up in.
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Memorable? Hardly, but the main actors are worth seeing, and that first act has so much promise it almost makes you want to forgive them for blowing the second.
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Top CriticThere's no real suspense here 'cause you don't care about anyone.
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Jones has that elusive quality, charisma, and uses it to full advantage along with his credibility and authority.
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Congratulations to director Mick Jackson and writers Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray for liberating themselves from the tedious demands of believability.
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