VOLCANO
A film review by Bryan Dobson
Copyright 1997 Bryan Dobson
REVIEW: Volcano RATING: 8.5 / 10
Well, I'll admit when I first heard about this film (which was before Dante's Peak) I could just smell what 'Twister' had started. So now it seems that we're in a full fledged return to the '70's disaster film era. With 'Twister', 'Dante's Peak', 'Volcano' and soon 'Flood' and James Cameron's extremly expensive 'Titanic'
I'll say first off I enjoyed 'Volcano' much more than I did 'Dantes Peak'. Part of that is just being biased as I usually enjoy anything that Tommy Lee Jones appears in.
I've been reading a lot about the movie being 'cheezy' or 'hokey' and really didn't see or think that once during the entire film. I get bored easily and this film didn't bore me for a minute. Another thing, and boy am I bitching today!, that bothers me is when critics and such go on about "Well thats not really possible." You know what? I couldn't give a bloody damn if it's possible or not, really I couldn't. It's a freaking movie and I don't WANT reality thrown in my face. I want to be able to see the impossible, the all might "WHAT IF" to many reviewers have seen one to many movies!
The special effects are the second star to this feature. They are so amazing that I found it hard sometimes to believe they were indeed FX and LA was was not burning to the ground. They did an incredible job and come Oscar time (if they remember) some notice better be thrown there way.
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