In the city of Los Angeles, it is nice quiet and routine.
Until an earthquake occurs. The director of the city's emergency management, Michael Roark believes that something is big is about to happen, so he finds a geologist named Amy Barnes to help him investigate.
What they will realise that the earthquake is a sign of a volcano forming in the city.
The volcano formed at the La Brea Tarpits. Now Roark has to use every resource in the city to stop the volcano from consuming Los Angeles...
Okay, so the plausibility factor in this is stretched to it's very limits, and the script is downright hilarious.
Bt one cannot deny the fun you have whilst watching this.
Made in a time when anything Lee Jones was in was worth watching, Volcano is like one of those good old fashioned seventies disaster movies, minus the character input.
You know from the start who will live and who will die, thanks to the persons stress levels.
For example, the guy who is trying to quit smoking has the short end of the stick in death scenes.
But all the cast are good, given the material they are using, and Lee Jones gives it that bit of class the film desperately needs.
When the day is saved, there is a little message that goes along the lines of 'in the hour of need, we are all the same, despite creed, culture, or colour', thanks to a child pointing out the fact that everyone is covered in ash.
It's better than Dante's Peak by a mile, and the dog survives, which makes a nice change.
The tag-line should have been 'the coast is cheese on toast'.
Until an earthquake occurs. The director of the city's emergency management, Michael Roark believes that something is big is about to happen, so he finds a geologist named Amy Barnes to help him investigate.
What they will realise that the earthquake is a sign of a volcano forming in the city.
The volcano formed at the La Brea Tarpits. Now Roark has to use every resource in the city to stop the volcano from consuming Los Angeles...
Okay, so the plausibility factor in this is stretched to it's very limits, and the script is downright hilarious.
Bt one cannot deny the fun you have whilst watching this.
Made in a time when anything Lee Jones was in was worth watching, Volcano is like one of those good old fashioned seventies disaster movies, minus the character input.
You know from the start who will live and who will die, thanks to the persons stress levels.
For example, the guy who is trying to quit smoking has the short end of the stick in death scenes.
But all the cast are good, given the material they are using, and Lee Jones gives it that bit of class the film desperately needs.
When the day is saved, there is a little message that goes along the lines of 'in the hour of need, we are all the same, despite creed, culture, or colour', thanks to a child pointing out the fact that everyone is covered in ash.
It's better than Dante's Peak by a mile, and the dog survives, which makes a nice change.
The tag-line should have been 'the coast is cheese on toast'.