Volcano

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Volcano

PG-13,

1997,

1h 42m,

Action

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When a massive earthquake rocks the city of Los Angeles, Emergency Management department head Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones) returns from his vacation to help with the city's response. After geologist Dr. Amy Barnes (Anne Heche) warns that a volcano may be forming in sewer tunnels, another severe earthquake unleashes the lava flowing underfoot, threatening to destroy the whole city. As the fiery molten rock runs through the streets, Roark and Barnes must figure out how to divert it.

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Critics Consensus

Volcano's prodigious pyrotechnics and Tommy Lee Jones' crotchety sneers at lava aren't quite enough to save this routine disaster film.

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Bill Stamets

Chicago Reader

Jun 15, 2022

Unfortunately, Volcano is also faithful to Hollywood’s legendary lack of originality...

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William Thomas

Empire Magazine

Jan 8, 2019

3/5

None of it makes a hell of a lot of sense and the supporting cast are wallpaper thin, but Volcano is at least hot on entertainment.

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David Ansen

Newsweek

Feb 28, 2018

Volcano, busily and cheerfully hysterical, always has some new fish to fry, new truck to melt, new skyscraper to tumble or new manhole to pop with a radiant gusher of movie magma.

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Don Shanahan

Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast

Sep 20, 2024

Tommy Lee Jones might be trapped in this movie while Anne Heche steals the show.

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

Apr 25, 2022

4/5

The more I watch Volcano, the film holds up as the best volcano movie from 1997 with never-ending action.

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Louis Peitzman

io9.com

Jan 8, 2019

There's a glorious faux-plausibility to the proceedings that makes movies like Volcano all the more entertaining.

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Han L

Apr 16, 2019

There is nothing credible about this film.First responders would NEVER be able to stand 10 feet away from flowing lava. The fumes alone would overcome them. I like a good disaster flick as well as anyone, but I"d like it to be at least 20% believable. The only reason I didn't give it 1 star is because I love Tommy Lee Jones.

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Feb 24, 2019

Good movie could be better though

Dec 7, 2018

fairly good movie feels low budget though

Abraham L

Sep 30, 2018

Feels like a sequel to Earthquake 1974.

Jun 29, 2018

Volcano is the more ridiculous, more fun and more exciting bigger brother of Dante's Peak and therefore one of those 90s catastrophe actioners to enjoy without alot of thinking - though the amateurish attempt at the end to slip a racism theme into the plot. Also, there is a particularly barbaric scene I would rather have unseen.

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Ron S

Mar 2, 2018

There are better disaster movies than this. It's ok, and Tommy Lee Jones is quite good, but there's nothing special about this film. It's the sort of film you watch to pass 2 hours.

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Mick Jackson

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Tommy Lee Jones

Mike Roark

Anne Heche

Dr. Amy Barnes

Gaby Hoffmann

Kelly Roark

Don Cheadle

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Synopsis

When a massive earthquake rocks the city of Los Angeles, Emergency Management department head Mike Roark (Tommy Lee Jones) returns from his vacation to help with the city's response. After geologist Dr. Amy Barnes (Anne Heche) warns that a volcano may be forming in sewer tunnels, another severe earthquake unleashes the lava flowing underfoot, threatening to destroy the whole city. As the fiery molten rock runs through the streets, Roark and Barnes must figure out how to divert it.

Director: Mick Jackson
Producer: Neal H. Moritz, Andrew Z. Davis
Screenwriter: Jerome Armstrong, Billy Ray
Distributor: Fox, 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 25, 1997, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $47.5M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: SDDS, DTS, Surround, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: 35mm, Flat (1.85:1)

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