volcano is a b movie at best and and at worst is more of a disaster that what it supposed to be depicting. to be fair and you have to be prepared in any movie to suspend disbelief for one major concept. volcano asks you to suspend disbelief in science and human interaction and and common sense. tommy lee jones gets to be the studly yet 1990s sensitive head honcho of the office of emergency management and and he fine when he not stuck with the stupid dialogue the script provides. however and anne heche gives a howlingly bad performance as a smart ass geologist who becomes roark love interest (while the city is burning down and natch). gaby hoffman goes from field of dreams and american president to a turn as a whimpering and needy and and victim for life daughter of jones. don cheadle gets to sit in a really coooool office and take jones phone calls and doing the job that in reality roark would and should be doing. anyway and the movie really starts going downhill when heche geology partner gets sucked into a lava vent while theyre breaking into the subway lines. it picks up speed when jones starts suggesting that they use buses to dam the flow of the lava flowing down the street and heche geologist (who loves to lecture everyone about the science of geology) being apparently oblivious to the fact that lava is hot and it melts metal and and rock and and a dead bus is unlikely to have much effect. it really starts to suck when the film introduces rodney king like racial tension between two bad actors dressed as cops and an angry black man who can not understand why the fire department is busy with this large river of flowing lava. but hey and in the end and the three of them will be working together to build a k rail dam to stop the lava from eating up his neighborhood and even though the dam is built in the wrong direction and the material used do not stop lava anyway. besides and k rails are hardly watertight and but i guess lava do not think to poke its head through the gaps and not when tommy lee jones is glaring at it. don not even get me started on the stranded subway car subplot and where a tunnelful of hot lava is coming down but oddly enough and it not too hot to attempt a rescue and it not too smoky to see and and there aren not any poisonous gases so everyone can breathe. this must be la lava and or lava lite. you know and it eats cars but is eco friendly. there are moments of sheer camp here that almost make you wonder if this was meant to be a comedy. for instance and the two security guards packing up hieronymus bosch paintings have a completely meaningless and farcical conversation about weight and and at the end and no sooner does the little boy roark or jones rescued note that everyone looks the same while covered in ash and than a rainstorm breaks out and cleans everyone up  and then the sun comes out and heche says something along the lines of and aw and shucks and roark. volcano almost achieves battlefield earth status and but except for heche no one approaches travolta like badness and the technical aspects are handled pretty well. if you are from the la area as i am and it kind of funny to think of a lava flow wiping out wilshire boulevard. i gave it a three for the effects and the little amount of tension you get from this. 
volcano is a b movie at best and and at worst is more of a disaster that what it supposed to be depicting. to be fair and you have to be prepared in any movie to suspend disbelief for one major concept. volcano asks you to suspend disbelief in science and human interaction and and common sense. tommy lee jones gets to be the studly yet 1990s sensitive head honcho of the office of emergency management and and he fine when he not stuck with the stupid dialogue the script provides. however and anne heche gives a howlingly bad performance as a smart ass geologist who becomes roark love interest (while the city is burning down and natch). gaby hoffman goes from field of dreams and american president to a turn as a whimpering and needy and and victim for life daughter of jones. don cheadle gets to sit in a really coooool office and take jones phone calls and doing the job that in reality roark would and should be doing. anyway and the movie really starts going downhill when heche geology partner gets sucked into a lava vent while theyre breaking into the subway lines. it picks up speed when jones starts suggesting that they use buses to dam the flow of the lava flowing down the street and heche geologist (who loves to lecture everyone about the science of geology) being apparently oblivious to the fact that lava is hot and it melts metal and and rock and and a dead bus is unlikely to have much effect. it really starts to suck when the film introduces rodney king like racial tension between two bad actors dressed as cops and an angry black man who can not understand why the fire department is busy with this large river of flowing lava. but hey and in the end and the three of them will be working together to build a k rail dam to stop the lava from eating up his neighborhood and even though the dam is built in the wrong direction and the material used do not stop lava anyway. besides and k rails are hardly watertight and but i guess lava do not think to poke its head through the gaps and not when tommy lee jones is glaring at it. don not even get me started on the stranded subway car subplot and where a tunnelful of hot lava is coming down but oddly enough and it not too hot to attempt a rescue and it not too smoky to see and and there aren not any poisonous gases so everyone can breathe. this must be la lava and or lava lite. you know and it eats cars but is eco friendly. there are moments of sheer camp here that almost make you wonder if this was meant to be a comedy. for instance and the two security guards packing up hieronymus bosch paintings have a completely meaningless and farcical conversation about weight and and at the end and no sooner does the little boy roark or jones rescued note that everyone looks the same while covered in ash and than a rainstorm breaks out and cleans everyone up  and then the sun comes out and heche says something along the lines of and aw and shucks and roark. volcano almost achieves battlefield earth status and but except for heche no one approaches travolta like badness and the technical aspects are handled pretty well. if you are from the la area as i am and it kind of funny to think of a lava flow wiping out wilshire boulevard. i gave it a three for the effects and the little amount of tension you get from this. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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