Dante's Peak (1997)
Country: US
Technical: De Luxe/Panavision 108m
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan
Synopsis:
A team of seismologists investigates volcanic activity at an idyllic north-western town just celebrating its idyllicness; one of them is convinced of an impending eruption.
Review:
Guess who's right. The Pompeii-like eruption generates some impressive special effects of the kind that made Independence Day such an eyeful, but to be fair on this formulaic disaster pic it is not in the Cassandra Crossing variety, where one waits interminably for something to happen. The makers know how to crank up the tension before then, and there is some measure of topicality (Mount St Helens, El Chinchón, pyroclastic flows) about the scenario. Hollywood followed up with the dramatically less compelling Volcano, which concentrated more on fireballs and lava.
Country: US
Technical: De Luxe/Panavision 108m
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan
Synopsis:
A team of seismologists investigates volcanic activity at an idyllic north-western town just celebrating its idyllicness; one of them is convinced of an impending eruption.
Review:
Guess who's right. The Pompeii-like eruption generates some impressive special effects of the kind that made Independence Day such an eyeful, but to be fair on this formulaic disaster pic it is not in the Cassandra Crossing variety, where one waits interminably for something to happen. The makers know how to crank up the tension before then, and there is some measure of topicality (Mount St Helens, El Chinchón, pyroclastic flows) about the scenario. Hollywood followed up with the dramatically less compelling Volcano, which concentrated more on fireballs and lava.
Country: US
Technical: De Luxe/Panavision 108m
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan
Synopsis:
A team of seismologists investigates volcanic activity at an idyllic north-western town just celebrating its idyllicness; one of them is convinced of an impending eruption.
Review:
Guess who's right. The Pompeii-like eruption generates some impressive special effects of the kind that made Independence Day such an eyeful, but to be fair on this formulaic disaster pic it is not in the Cassandra Crossing variety, where one waits interminably for something to happen. The makers know how to crank up the tension before then, and there is some measure of topicality (Mount St Helens, El Chinchón, pyroclastic flows) about the scenario. Hollywood followed up with the dramatically less compelling Volcano, which concentrated more on fireballs and lava.