Tommy Lee Jones plays a top L.A. County environmental official but does not know about plate tectonics or understand that magma is underground lava. Cars drive nonchalantly by an erupting volcano on Wilshire Blvd. like it's a water main break. People walk in front of molten lava and get bombarded with volcanic ash and falling glass shards from exploding buildings with no ill effects. And these are some of the high points! Yet if Tommy Lee Jones whiny brat teenage daughter and the two dogs had been engulfed in the lava stream, I would have rated this clunker a bit higher for good special effects.
