1997 · action · thriller
Volcano (1997)
Directed by Mick Jackson1h 44m1997
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
Our read: Volcano (1997) (1997) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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