Volcano (1997)
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
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Just perfect...
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Volcano (1997)Factual errorsWhen Roark asks Amy to find Kelly, he gives her Kelly's picture but not her name. How would she know who she was looking for?In the humvee when Roark found out wherethe lava was going to erupt he said, "my god, thats where Kelly is." And as Amy is in the humvee with him she heard that name and would know his daughters name.
Volcano is a fast paced non-stop disaster film, chock-full of poor characters, poor dialogue, cliches and stupidity.Definitely watchable, just quite a lot of cringe moments. Like Tommy Jones's character running across the street to dive at his daughter under the falling building, to move her slightly while she stands still and it being all the difference. Tommy gave a good performance here despite the obvious, Heche and Cheadle were pretty bad. I don't think Gaby Hoffmann was bad as the daughter like other reviews have stated, despite the character mostly being a hindrance.
Volcano is one of those rare 90s disaster movies. It could have been better, but it is what it is. The acting is well-done, the ash raining down looks realistic, however some volcano eruption scenes are clearly taken from documentary footage and simply added into this flick, special effects in the 90s wasn't as advanced as it is today so it makes sense why some of the scenes look so cheap.It's a good thing that Volcano isn't a CGI-fest, because they would not be able to pull that off, the story's main focus is more on the characters.Volcano has a positive trait, it shows teamwork / a city working together in the midst of danger.The directing and dialogue is great. Volcano is better than a lot of disaster movies of today.
Volcano (1997) It's a good film, got some nice effects, action and drama but there's not a lot of science or thinking behind it. If you're looking for this sort of thing it's great but there is definitely better disaster movies out there.In addition, you're probably going to have to wait a while for it to get started but then after that it's literally lots and lots of lava/ fire even though it's still pretty average. It also has the potential of being so much better as the plots good and same goes for the characters.I personally thought it was an interesting film, and I wouldn't mind watching it again. I do recommend watching it.