Rotten
Never generates a head of true excitement, partly because the characters remain constructs designed to perform defined functions, and partly due to the time-worn hokiness of the whole disaster-film format.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Volcano
The coast is toast.
1997 · 1h 44m · PG-13
Action, Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Mick Jackson
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.
Director and cast
- Mick Jackson Director
- Tommy Lee Jones as Mike Roark
- Anne Heche as Dr. Amy Barnes
- Gaby Hoffmann as Kelly Roark
- Don Cheadle as Emmit Reese
- Joshua Fardon as Medic
- Jacqueline Kim as Dr. Jaye Calder
- Keith David as Lt. Ed Fox
- John Corbett as Norman Calder
- Michael Rispoli as Gator Harris
- John Carroll Lynch Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
49%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The coast may be toast, but it's the lava, covering everything like a malevolent tide of melted butter, that makes this a disaster picture that's tastier than usual.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Like the substantially better Twister, this film insists on a thunderous, exhausting pace that inevitably becomes deflating.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
A flatulent blast of superheated air from the seething bowels of Hollywood...
Gary Kamiya, Salon.com
Rotten
Hundreds of screen technicians obviously slaved on the effects -- and for what? A dopey subplot about a bogus arrest. Soap opera involving Jones' injured daughter.
Mike Clark, USA Today
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