Volcano
After a seemingly minor earthquake, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon Los Angeles!
29 May 1969, Maywood, Illinois, USA
4 November 1949
9 May 1961, Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
14 January 1964, Holly Springs, Mississippi, USA
1947, England, UK
1 August 1963, Boulder, Colorado, USA
May 23, 2017
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.
September 05, 2009
Pre-millennium tension is still the best explanation for the recent tidal wave of disaster movies--which hasn't made it any less boring.
February 14, 2001
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.
October 03, 2005
[The characters] aren't people; they're mere objects to stick in front of the flowing lava.
January 01, 2000
Like the substantially better Twister, this film insists on a thunderous, exhausting pace that inevitably becomes deflating.
January 26, 2006
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.
January 01, 2000
A flatulent blast of superheated air from the seething bowels of Hollywood...
January 01, 2000
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.
March 24, 2017
The fairly anticlimactic final stretch ensures that Volcano concludes on a less-than-engrossing note...
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.
March 26, 2009
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.
February 02, 2008
not mean to be taken seriously
