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Dante's Peak

Dante's Peak (1997)

February. 07,1997
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6
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PG-13
| Adventure Drama Action Thriller

Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.

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ThiefHott
1997/02/07

Too much of everything

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UnowPriceless
1997/02/08

hyped garbage

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Peereddi
1997/02/09

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

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Derrick Gibbons
1997/02/10

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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fknichel
1997/02/11

This film is favorite of mine. Simple story line with likeable characters and possibly some of the best pratical visual effects Hollywood has ever done. It was only a few years later until nearly every movie was overflowing with CGI. Compare this film to one like 2012 and you'll agree that cgi is no substitute.

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omegaxshook
1997/02/12

First off, yes I get not everything is 100% factual, but it's not far off from fact. The movie is almost like a re-telling of Mt St. Helens. Its a good disaster movie to watch and I enjoy watching it. Linda Hamilton who played a tough woman in the Terminator movies, does a great job at playing her sweet damsel in distress type of character, yet strong and bold. Peirce Bronson is a guy I would want with me in this situation, he plays the character perfectly.Its a great movie, and if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

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Nadine Salakov
1997/02/13

Dante's Peak is now 20 years old and is still a decent disaster flick. Everything is fine with this movie, except for the tired romance scenario, it is rare for an on screen man and woman to be just friends, this film would have been perfect for that, we don't see them in a full- on relationship where they're getting engaged and him adopting her kids, the story was about surviving the out of control volcano, so there really was no need for that romance plot as it didn't go anywhere. It would have been refreshing if the writers had the two main characters be just friends.

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hkennedy-14802
1997/02/14

Dantes peak movie review I am a year 10 pupil at Dromore high school and in my geography class we recently watched Dantes peak. I thought it was a fantastic movie but is very gory in some scenes so if you didn't like that type of thing this movie isn't for you. The main characters are harry, the volcanologist played by Pierce brosan, then there is Rachel the mayor of the town and also own the local café played by Linda Hamilton. Rachel has 2 children, Lauren and graham there is also the U.S.G.S team, Paul "the boss", harry, Barry and three others. The plot was that harry was sent to Dante's peak to see if there was any volcanic activity. Harry soon finds signs that the volcano is active for example dead squirrels, vegetation begin to die due sulphur dioxide and he found a couple that had been boiled up in hot springs. Harry wanted to send out an alert but Paul (the boss) wouldn't let him because it wasn't scientifically certain that it was going to erupt soon. Harry and Barry then go up to the volcano and send spider down to seen what was going on spider then stopped moving so Barry went down to fix the problem he unhooked himself from his harness and a minor earthquake occurs, rocks fall and harry breaks his leg. Later on in the film there is certain sign that the volcano is going to erupt and so they quickly call the town in to send an alert as they are in the middle of telling people what was about to happen an earthquake occurs soon the roof was falling in and the people panic and rush out the building in fear. The volcano erupts and Rachel Hs to get her kids who have drove up the mountain to save there grandma they then have to face many obstacles as there battle to get back down .when they finally make it down harry makes the decision to ram the car into this building as it was too dangerous to drive about the town ,he then gets Rachel and the kids to a safe spot and then rushes to the car to send a message to tell someone they are down there but rocks fall on top of him and he breaks his arm but pulls through and sends out the message and gets himself Rachel and her kids to safety, then him and Rachel fall in love and that's it. I did think it some parts it was unrealistic and exaggerated but was a good story, I really loved all of the gory parts and would totally recommended it if you aren't squeamish. I give Dante's peak a solid 8/10

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