- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- Release Date: Apr 25, 1997
- Starring: Anne Heche, Tommy Lee Jones
- Summary: Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano pushes to the surface, raining a storm of deadly firebombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned City of Angels in this pulse-pounding action thriller! (Fox)
- Director: Mick Jackson
- Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 22
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Mixed: 12 out of 22
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Negative: 3 out of 22
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Deft filmmaking that allows the special effects to help, not be, the story combines with an actual script to make Volcano a smart, self-aware, and most of all fun disaster movie.
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80But a great sense of pace is a wonderful thing, and director Jackson and his crew (who made good use of hand-held and Steadicam shots and reportedly averaged an impressive 30 to 40 camera setups a day) move so quickly from shot to shot and location to location that viewers have a limited time to dwell on the film's predictable implausibilities.
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60The fun is in the mayhem, and there's plenty of it.
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38This is a surprisingly cheesy disaster epic.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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BrandonL.10Excellent movie. Tommy Lee Jones' best film to date. Also, it's the best disaster film ever, even better then "The Day After Tomorrow."
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KyleM6Good special effects. could've easily been better. its no dantes peak.
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