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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Bill Stamets Chicago Reader Jun 15, 2022

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

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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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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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Dennis King Tulsa World Jan 8, 2019 2.5/4

Movies like ``Volcano'' exist for their gigantic, humongous, eye-popping special effects and this picture delivers those -- Big Time.

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Michael Ollove Baltimore Sun Jan 7, 2019

You leave "Volcano" feeling a bit singed.

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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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Fred Topel We Live Entertainment May 23, 2017

Volcano was really ahead of its time and time still hasn't caught up. In Volcano they thought of ways to stop the lava. They weren't going to give up L.A. You don't cast Tommy Lee Jones as the chief of emergency services and ask him to run.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Mar 24, 2017 2.5/4

The fairly anticlimactic final stretch ensures that Volcano concludes on a less-than-engrossing note...

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 B-

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Rob Nelson Boston Phoenix Sep 5, 2009

Pre-millennium tension is still the best explanation for the recent tidal wave of disaster movies--which hasn't made it any less boring.

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Todd McCarthy Variety Mar 26, 2009

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.

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Oct 3, 2005 2/4

[The characters] aren't people; they're mere objects to stick in front of the flowing lava.

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Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews Apr 9, 2005 C+

The star is, of course, the volcano effects. Seeing the coast become toast may be the biggest draw for audiences to this routine F/X extravaganza.

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Judith Egerton Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) Jun 23, 2004 1/4

Movie bombs L.A. with lava, audience with stupidity

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Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Oct 14, 2003 5/10

The special effects are impressive and the acting by Jones and Heche is good, although their roles didn't require much skill or inspiration.

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Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Mar 16, 2003 2.5/4

The film, about a volcano erupting in downtown Los Angeles, is helped immeasurably by veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones, who has enough charm and charisma to rescue just about any movie. He needs it all to save this one.

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Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) Dec 30, 2002 3/5

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