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Volcano (1997)

PG-13 04/25/1997 Science Fiction, Action, Drama, Thriller 1h 44m
59%
User
Score
5.6/10
49%
54/100

The coast is toast.

Overview

An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.

Mick Jackson

Director

Jerome Armstrong

Screenplay

Billy Ray

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones

Mike Roark

Anne Heche

Anne Heche

Dr. Amy Barnes

Gaby Hoffmann

Gaby Hoffmann

Kelly Roark

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle

Emmit Reese

Jacqueline Kim

Jacqueline Kim

Dr. Jaye Calder

Keith David

Keith David

Lt. Ed Fox

John Corbett

John Corbett

Norman Calder

Michael Rispoli

Michael Rispoli

Gator Harris

John Carroll Lynch

John Carroll Lynch

Stan Olber

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Media

Volcano (1997) Trailer

Volcano (1997) Trailer

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Volcano Trailer HD

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on May 27, 2023

When Los Angeles starts blowing off a little more steam than usual, it falls to disaster emergency supremo "Rourke" (Tommy Lee Jones) to find out what is going on - and when that turns out to be an impending volcanic eruption, he enlists the help of "Dr. Barnes" (Anne Heche) to stop it destroying the city. To be fair, there are plenty of great pyrotechnics and the film pretty much starts in fourth gear - but the ending really lets it down. Not the science, that's quite entertaining as they have to use subway tunnels, storm drains and quite a bit of dynamite; it's the "have to rescue my daughter" nonsense that spoiled it for me. Maybe there ought to be a rule that anyone charged with such responsibility is not permitted to have a teenage child anywhere within a 200 mile radius of their zone...

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