But a great sense of pace is a wonderful thing, and director Jackson and his crew (who made good use of hand-held and Steadicam shots and reportedly averaged an impressive 30 to 40 camera setups a day) move so quickly from shot to shot and location to location that viewers have a limited time to dwell on the film's predictable implausibilities.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
In fact, this is one of the best pure disaster movies ever made (not that it has much competition). Congratulations to director Mick Jackson for a job well done.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
The secret of Volcano's success as a better-than-average disasterama is its nonstop pace.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
I had a pretty good time at Volcano. The reason I didn't have a better time is that the characters aren't just schlocky, they're boring.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
In Volcano, the thrills are so well wrought that they eventually lose their novelty and become numbing.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Gary Kamiya
A flatulent blast of superheated air from the seething bowels of Hollywood, features all the usual idiocies -- implausibility on an epic scale, bogus "human interest" elements, plot developments that offer all the surprises of a Bob Dole speech.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Eric Brace
You hope against hope that the lava flowing through the city will wipe out Los Angeles and everyone in it, if only to prevent them from making more movies like this.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
While disaster yarns aren't known for subtlety, there are limits, and Volcano giddily goes beyond them.Read Full Review »
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