Volcano (1997)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: Mick Jackson
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim
Synopsis:
Los Angeles is threatened by a magma chamber filling up under the lake in one of its parks. A City Management official and seismologist join forces when disaster strikes.
Review:
The mixture as in Earthquake, even to the extent of using storm drains in its dénouement, but on balance slightly less pessimistic about human nature than were the disaster movies in the Seventies. Whether this humanism is a good thing when topped by a child's absurdly adult observation that all the ash-covered survivors look the same colour is another matter. In a way we would have preferred to see the TV reporter fried in his car and the egotistical architect flattened in his own building. But the stars are likeable and the special effects, notably the lava, amazing.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: Mick Jackson
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim
Synopsis:
Los Angeles is threatened by a magma chamber filling up under the lake in one of its parks. A City Management official and seismologist join forces when disaster strikes.
Review:
The mixture as in Earthquake, even to the extent of using storm drains in its dénouement, but on balance slightly less pessimistic about human nature than were the disaster movies in the Seventies. Whether this humanism is a good thing when topped by a child's absurdly adult observation that all the ash-covered survivors look the same colour is another matter. In a way we would have preferred to see the TV reporter fried in his car and the egotistical architect flattened in his own building. But the stars are likeable and the special effects, notably the lava, amazing.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 104m
Director: Mick Jackson
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim
Synopsis:
Los Angeles is threatened by a magma chamber filling up under the lake in one of its parks. A City Management official and seismologist join forces when disaster strikes.
Review:
The mixture as in Earthquake, even to the extent of using storm drains in its dénouement, but on balance slightly less pessimistic about human nature than were the disaster movies in the Seventies. Whether this humanism is a good thing when topped by a child's absurdly adult observation that all the ash-covered survivors look the same colour is another matter. In a way we would have preferred to see the TV reporter fried in his car and the egotistical architect flattened in his own building. But the stars are likeable and the special effects, notably the lava, amazing.