Customer Reviews

Volcano (Widescreen)

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(14)
3 star:		(14)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(13)

 

 

My husband and I saw this movie when it was in the theater. It is very, very boring. The storyline is bad, and the acting is also bad. The only funny part is when this guy melts into the lava, and I don't think that was intended to be funny.

Everytime I see a bad move, I think, "Well, I suppose it was better than Volcano."

Quite simply, there is no particular reason to see this film. If you are a fan of the actors involved, you won't be particularly impressed by what they do with what little they are given. If you are a fan of special effects, the best they come up with is, well, stuff that looks a lot like lava. If you go crazy over disaster movies, you might sleep though this one. If in-depth character studies revealing the ironies of the human condition are your thing, the screenwriters manage to go no further than exploring the predictable morality-play trivialities of any disaster movie since The Towering Inferno. If you can't tell what's going to happen to each character within minutes, you must have dozed off. Volcano doesn't even make a challenging game of "Spot the Cannon Fodder". If you are a fan of films featuring seismic activity your time is better spent with Dante's Peak. And certainly, if you enjoy good plots with plenty of suspense and unexpected twists, there's nothing for you here. Sure, it is unexpected for the residents of LA to wake up with a volcano erupting in Wilshire Boulevard, but that's no surprise to the film-viewing public, given the eponymous title (and I don't mean the movie is called "Wilshire Boulevard"!) And if, by some strange twist of fate, you've got a special thing for pyroclastic flows in all their glory, there's not even a mention of the possibility of that horrible fate in store for LA's denizens.

Now, if Mick Jackson and his band of merry men had worked in an ending in which massive mutant magma men lurch limberly from the lava and hurry horribly to Hollywood, where they totally terrorize Twentieth Century Fox into producing their putrid picture--a vile vision of an LA volcano that vomits forth massive mutant magma men who...

Believe me, it would be more interesting. Heck, this movie would be more interesting even if it just had a character who constantly chatted in alliteration....

This movie is the stupidest movie I have ever seen. It seems the researchers, writters, directors, and special effects people all decided to have a compition. The winner: the person who did their job the worst way possible.

I have always suspected the tar pits of being a hot bed of adversity. And who knows what those nasty faults are planning for us. All in all this is as good as any other disaster movie with the exception that it brings the disaster home to you and not in some remote location. The acting is as good as any disaster movie. Tommy Lee Jones is a good selection and carries of his character to a tee. With the lava creeping around you have plenty of time to say "watch out" and "stay in the car."

I think, overall, this is a good disaster movie. I mean, are you ever REALLY looking for a realistic scenerio in an action flick? I think the plot progressed smoothly (not one of those movies where the screen comes on and starts with people running around getting fried), and the music was great.

Obviously this is a small volcano, considering that if it was a Mount St. Helens thing with pyroclastic flows and lava all over, then yeah, LA wouldn't stand much of a chance, but its fun to think how a major city like LA would face a little volcano deciding to pop up in the middle of the city.

This has to be one of the dumbest movies...ever...Yes ever...Seeing this movie I think my IQ dropped 20 points from it's stupid storyline and totally impossible happenings as a volcano magically forming in LA

Really dumb....the only thing good about this movie is laughing at it the entire way for its sheer stupidity

Is it fun to watch? Yes. Why? Because this is so bad you can't help but enjoy. They completely and utterly disregard any realism and totally defy the laws of physics. Let's put it this way, in this movie the coast is toast and the plot is rot. Tommy Lee Jones gets a major pay check to lead the rescue effort when geological mumbo-jumbo causes the La Brea tar pits and the new L.A. subway system to spit steam, ash, fire and a rolling, molten sea. Actually the coast is not even toast. Let me quote from everyone's favorite smart alleck Mike Nelson: "I hate to start this by nitpicking, but the movie really should be called lava and not volcano. The "film" starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche, really was long on lava and, as far as I could tell, had only one small-quite small, really-volcano. And, despite all the hype, the coast was not, at any time during the film, toast. The coastal city of Los Angeles, CA, was indeed in no small danger of being incinerated by flowing magma, but the situation was completely handled by disaster workers, and only the most pessimistic naysayer would describe the situation by saying 'the coast is toast.'" Beyond all that, seeing as how close our characters were to the lava, one would have to wonder why they weren't burnt up. At the temperature of the magma the characters could've in no way been as close as they were. Oh well it's simply a terrible movie. Bad acting, boring plot, crumby music, and doesn't even remotely live up to the hype! Unless you're in the mood for a cheeze-fest I suggest you see something else. Heck watching grass grow would be more stimulating than this.

I love the movie valcano. I recemend it only to people who like horror and death movies becuse valcano is one of them. I hope kids don't really belive that this has happend becuse there has not ever been a valcano so powerful to blow up so much ash and magma to destruct a whole state and more than that so dont belive this happend. I will like this movie so much I am willing to pay for 2 copys of it if I had that kind of money but I dont so dont think I will.

Okay, people: when you went to the theater or rented or bought the VHS or DVD, JUST WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING? This is a pure out and out two bag popcorn, one gigantic Coca cola thrill ride of a movie. It starts out with a bang and doesn't let up. You want great stories, try THE HOURS; you want overwhelmingly good acting, try MYSTIC RIVER. You want a fun, oh my god,look out thriller, this is one of the best. Nuff said.

This is a hilariously BAD "Can't we just all get along?" Golden
Turkey movie. Once you get past the preposterous notion of a
lava-flowing volcano coming up out of Mid-Wilshire's Museum District,this movie is so bad, it's funny, especially if you are
familiar with the LA area, then you can cheer and throw popcorn,
as your favorite or hated sites are wasted. Slogan was great,
"The Coast is Toast," and worth getting together a bunch of
friends and having a Golden Turkey festival party of your own.

I cheered the volcano on, it was the best actor! Best scene was
when the suits all looked around to see who's cell phone had
gone off.

Best enjoyed with friends and some cold brewskis at a party.