
Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!... (Full plot summary below)
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Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!
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| The A.V. ClubJohn KrewsonDeft filmmaking that allows the special effects to help, not be, the story combines with an actual script to make Volcano a smart, self-aware, and most of all fun disaster movie. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranBut a great sense of pace is a wonderful thing, and director Jackson and his crew (who made good use of hand-held and Steadicam shots and reportedly averaged an impressive 30 to 40 camera setups a day) move so quickly from shot to shot and location to location that viewers have a limited time to dwell on the film's predictable implausibilities. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliIn 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. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanI had a pretty good time at Volcano. The reason I didn't have a better time is that the characters aren't just schlocky, they're boring. |
| VarietyTodd McCarthyA furiously paced popcorn picture whose outrageous implausibility is somewhat amusing, Volcano delivers enough spectacular action to get it off to a hot B.O. start, although like the lava in the picture, it may not flow quite as far as anticipated. |
| Dallas ObserverPeter RainerWatching this film is a little bit like getting mauled and tickled at the same time. The filmmakers have given the whole shebang a hefty levity, and that's not easy to accomplish in a full-scale disaster movie. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenThe secret of Volcano's success as a better-than-average disasterama is its nonstop pace. |
| The New York TimesElvis MitchellIn Volcano, the thrills are so well wrought that they eventually lose their novelty and become numbing. |
| EmpireNeil JeffriesBut for anyone willing to swallow a large pinch of salt there is much to enjoy in the film's numerous nail-munching, white-knuckle set-pieces variously employing firetruck ladders, subway trains and a finale so ridiculous that it just... might... work. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe fun is in the mayhem, and there's plenty of it. |