- Release Date: 1997
- Runtime: 104 min
- Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
- Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle ... see all
- Director: Mick Jackson
- Plot: Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm... Read more
User Reviews
Great movie!
Jun 20, 2008
maherfff - yahoo.com
Jun 20, 2008maherfff - yahoo.com
It was a very good movie. One part of the movie leads to another. But the story was a little shakey. Otherwise, it was a brilliant movie.... Full review
Volcano the best movie of the year
Jun 20, 2008
sorabiyo88 - yahoo.com
Jun 20, 2008sorabiyo88 - yahoo.com
I think this movie is the coolest. it has drama, action, scientific evidence, and lots more. The way the volcano comes up out of the subway system is just amazing. it is the coolest movie. All my friends are all talking... Full review
one of the all time worst
Jun 20, 2008
jwood10292004 - yahoo.com
Jun 20, 2008jwood10292004 - yahoo.com
This movie is beyond bad. One of the all time worst movies I have ever seen. Not even the usually good Tommy Lee Jones can save it. Ann heche is horrible, cliches are at a all time high. Dumb, I fell... Full review
A classic destruction movie
Jun 20, 2008
llamaking2004 - yahoo.com
Jun 20, 2008llamaking2004 - yahoo.com
This movie has intnse moments and lava every way you look. I can not believe how real the lava looks. This is one of the best natural desaster movies I have ever seen. I suugest this movie if you enjoy vlcano... Full review
an ok movie if you've never taken a geology class
Jun 20, 2008
secretchemicalx - yahoo.com
Jun 20, 2008secretchemicalx - yahoo.com
The acting and the special effects were decent, but I couldn't get over the fact that it's geologically impossible for a volcano to erupt anywhere near Los Angeles. They could have at least picked a better target.... Full review
Right?
Jun 20, 2008
chickmagnet262000 - yahoo.com
Jun 20, 2008chickmagnet262000 - yahoo.com
Jones is a great actor, but he shouldnt have signed on to this movie in the first place. This movie was nothing compared to my favorite movie with Jones, The Fugitive. The movie isnt half bad, but the plot is pretty... Full review
Have mercy...
May 21, 2008
themonfees - imdb.com
May 21, 2008themonfees - imdb.com
Although this movie (and I use the term loosely) was made in 1997, we just watched it tonight for the first time. My husband commented that a Tommy Lee Jones movie that we'd never heard of made him a little apprehensive.... Full review
Should've been marketed as a comedy.
May 17, 2008
afterschoolknifefight - imdb.com
May 17, 2008afterschoolknifefight - imdb.com
In all seriousness this is probably the stupidest film I have ever seen. It ranks up there with Armageddon on the 'all effects and nothing else' scale. It has all the hallmarks of a cheesy piece of crap.It actually doesn't... Full review
Just where is the Volcano exactly ?
Mar 04, 2008
RockySullivansRedemption - imdb.com
Mar 04, 2008RockySullivansRedemption - imdb.com
Well this is just a very average film stuffed full of the usual mainstream disaster genre clichés. Even myself as a staunch defender of the genre can not bring myself to rate it above average because sadly it is something of... Full review
Not very close to boiling point
Jul 23, 2007
dogorangetexas - yahoo.com
Jul 23, 2007dogorangetexas - yahoo.com
Volcano is not the hottest thing around, but with a flaring performance by Jones the movie gives off a few flames.... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Nov 12, 2009Film.com
Eric's Bad Movies:....It reminds me of the Oscar-winning film Crash , only not as funny.....This is to prepare viewers to accept it later on when an Office of Emergency Management bureaucrat shows up at the scene of a natural disaster.... ... Full Review
| Sep 04, 2008Urban Cinefile
Volcano is an adrenalin pumping spectacle which erupts onto the screen with strong performances, extravagant special effects, good script and a tension building musical score.
Anne Heche, the seismologist with big ideas and a petite frame, gives a strong performance showing great inner strength and is a complement to Jones.
... Full Review
| Oct 03, 1997San Francisco Chronicle
In ``Volcano,'' the new disaster movie out on video, the lava flows like a big toupee.
Things go bad after ``Volcano'' plays its last card -- the lava -- and from there it has nothing to show but more of the same.
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| Sep 30, 1997filmcritic.com
behind Volcano , the first really big disaster movie we've seen since, gosh, mid-February.
Co-stars Anne Heche and Tommy Lee Jones prove more than able at evading not only the encroaching magma, but also the horde of bad actors that follow them throughout the movie.
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| May 25, 1997Salon
Volcano," a flatulent blast of superheated air from the seething bowels of Hollywood, features all the usual idiocies -- implausibility on an epic scale, bogus "human interest" elements, plot developments that offer all the surprises of a Bob Dole speech.
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News
Volcano of youth
thestar.com –
2009-03-26
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Casting L.A. in a starring role
latimes.com –
2008-09-07
YOU WERE clearly reluctant to list "Crash" among "the Top 25 of the last 25," and you should have followed your instinct. There's a perfectly good substitute film that achieved everything "Crash" wanted to with much less fussiness nearly 10... ... Full Article
Latest 'X Factor' draws 9 million
digitalspy.co.uk –
2008-09-07
The latest episode of The X Factor drew more than 9 million viewers last night (Saturday), according to early figures. The fourth episode, which featured the Glasgow round of auditions, pulled in a hefty 9.02m (42.8%) average in an earlier,... ... Full Article
About the DVD
nytimes.com –
1999-03-09

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