Release Year: 1997 Rating: PG-13 Duration: 104 minutes Director: Mick Jackson Producer: Lauren Shuler Donner, Neal H Moritz, Andrew Z. Davis
synopsis
Los Angeles. It is perhaps best known as the entertainment capital of the world--a sun-kissed golden metropolis of glitz and glamour. To others it represents something very different. Millions more recognize The City of Angels as the unwilling epicenter of virtually every natural disaster--including earthquakes, firestorms and mudslides. Now the city which has become almost a byword for disaster is about to experience its most cataclysmic event ever, one that will ultimately test its ability to survive. A vent in the earth's crust has unleashed an incredible force of nature. The literally earth-shattering product: an erupting Volcano... and ground zero is L.A.'s famed La Brea Tar Pits. An unprepared Los Angeles is facing its worst nightmare as an endless stream of fiery, deadly lava insidiously creeps across traffic-choked streets while wreaking havoc below ground in the labyrinth of man-made natural tunnels.
[Museum personnel are moving paintings from a threatened museum]
1st. Guard: Man, this Hieronymus Bosch is heavy!
2nd. Guard: That's because he deals with man's inclination towards sin, in defiance of God's will.
1st. Guard: I didn't mean it like that.
2nd. Guard: Oh.
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VOLCANO is one of those films (like last year's TWISTER and INDEPENDENCE DAY) for which it doesn't matter what I (or any other critic) have to say. Disaster movie junkies will go to get their fix; those who can't tell the difference between THE TOWERING INFERNO and DIE HARD will stay away. Still, the burning question is probably the most obvious one: Which is better, VOLCANO or DANTE'S PEAK? Issues of credibility aside (both movies stray deeply into the preposterous, the former more often than the latter), there's no question whatsoever that VOLCANO makes for the better night out. In fact, this is one of the best pure disaster movies ever made (not that it has much competition). Congratulations to director Mick Jackson for a job well done.
