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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: JONES,TOMMY LEE
EAN: 9786305280729
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 630528072X
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 09, 1999
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 9478
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: April 25, 1997
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
When a volcano erupts in the La Brea tar pits and sends a stream of lava down Wilshire Blvd., the city Emergency Officer organizes a crew to channel the lava to a safe area.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Get mindless for awhile with this 1997 disaster flick, starring the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles as a funky place for lava to spew, plus Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche as the brave souls who know how to shut off the spout. Director Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) wastes no time getting to the good stuff--it's happening even before opening credits are over--and neither should anyone in the mood for technical efficiency without the burden of art. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Is there a forewoman somewhere?
A catastrophe film has a simple formula. A perfectly beautiful situation. Los Angeles. With a hint of a problem. Earthquakes. Then some small elements that could lead to something else and a few geologists to prove it with theories that prove nothing but create anxiety. The geologists are women and that adds a touch of male-chauvinism when all the men (and they are only men, firemen, policemen, all kind of city workers and underground operators and security people, men, men and men again, and if ... Read More
Rating:  - BAD
This is just a bad movie. Despite the big names it has a B-movie feel to it. The effects look cheap and unreal. The dialogue is often sappy. I mean really, really sappy. Take for example the ending where everyone is covered in ash, and a child observes that they all look the same. What a heart-touching racial commentary. Gag me with a spoon! One more thing, the announcer's voice sounds like that of the annoying troll from TMZ and Court TV, Harvey Levin.
Rating: - Hollyweird tries to cash in on weather extremes.
After the success of Twister I knew we would have a flood (no pun intended) of bad weather, environmental movies.
Volcano is probably the worst of the worst.
Not even Tommy Lee can save this total disterpiece of a movie.
Positively craptastic from start to finish, the fx are good but.........
The story?
The dialogue??
The acting???
Oh my............DREADFUL!!!!!!!!
Did I mention the dialogue?
The part where Lee puts his daughter in the cab with ... Read More
Rating: - Volcano
I will tell you up front that the vast majority of disaster movies have a hard time holding my interest. Most are so soaped down with romances I could care less about, that I shut them off after about fifteen minutes. This movie does not suffer from that movie killer affliction and in fact it is one of the few I actually like. Tommy Lee Jones is a great part of the reason. Cast in the lead as the FEMA Director trying to control a Volcano that has erupted in the city, it is well handled and with the ... Read More
Rating:  - Volcano
In 1997 there were two eagerly anticipated volcano movies released. Dante's Peak was more of a blockbuster hit, but not very accurate from a geologist's standpoint. Volcano was more realistic and accurate. It was nice to see a disaster movie depicted as it would naturally happen.
Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche were wonderful to watch!
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