VOLCANO (1997) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Mick Jackson
Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Don Cheadle,
Gaby Hoffman, Jacqueline Kim, John Carroll Lynch,
Keith David, John Corbett, Laurie Latham
Angelenos run for their lives when a volcano erupts under the city, fireballs rain from the sky, skyscrapers collapse and lava bubbles up out of the La Brea Tar Pits. The effects are decent, the pace is relentless, the laws of thermodynamics and narrative plausibility are flagrantly ignored, and the actors manage to deliver their lines without laughing out loud at the silliness of it all. A disaster movie that's as entertaining as it is insane. A guilty pleasure.
Anne Heche
(1969-2022)
