Interesting events continue in the volcano story that occurred in Los Angeles. In the end, something unspeakably relaxing began in Los Angeles under the famous La Brea Tar Pits volcano, a thunderous volcano, a rainstorm of deadly fire bombs and an endless stretch of hot white lava on the city. Something to change the course of this lava to save the city from this destruction.
The coast may be toast, but it's the lava, covering everything like a malevolent tide of melted butter, that makes this a disaster picture that's tastier than usual.
Volcano was really ahead of its time and time still hasn't caught up. In Volcano they thought of ways to stop the lava. They weren't going to give up L.A. You don't cast Tommy Lee Jones as the chief of emergency services and ask him to run.
Jones and Heche work hard to dig up an emotional rapport from next to nothing, while the slow but inexorable progress of the lava makes for more suspense than the usual slam bang firework display.
Hundreds of screen technicians obviously slaved on the effects -- and for what? A dopey subplot about a bogus arrest. Soap opera involving Jones' injured daughter.
New York Times
January 01, 2000
Like the substantially better Twister, this film insists on a thunderous, exhausting pace that inevitably becomes deflating.
Reeling Reviews
April 09, 2005
The star is, of course, the volcano effects. Seeing the coast become toast may be the biggest draw for audiences to this routine F/X extravaganza.
Never generates a head of true excitement, partly because the characters remain constructs designed to perform defined functions, and partly due to the time-worn hokiness of the whole disaster-film format.
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Annabelle: Creation
2017
IMDb: 7
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
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