Volcano Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

superb.......................

My family loved this film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche. It was filmed on location in Los Angeles and Torrance in California.

Mike Roark (played by Tommy Lee Jones), is a divorced Los Angeles emergency official who takes charge when a volcano grows out of the La Brea Tar Pits.

A river of lava flows down Wilshire Boulevard, through the Metro Red Line subway tunnel, and creates a fountain of lava next to the Beverly Centre shopping mall in Beverly Hills.

The lava destroys one subway train in the Red Line, kills the Metro chairman by melting him, burns cars, firemen, homes, and fire trucks, and burns down the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

It really is an action movie, full of suspense.

In spite of placing himself and his teenage daughter in danger, Mike decides to save the city by diverting the river of lava (with the help of demolition teams) into the concrete channel of Ballona Creek, which allows the lava to flow safely into the Pacific Ocean.

There is however a catch.... Amy (played by Anne Heche) reminds him that San Vicente Boulevard, does not slope in the direction which Mike thinks it does. It will instead flow the opposite direction -- right into the path of thousands of patients at Cedars Sinai Hospital.

So, Mike orders the demolition team to plant charges in both the street and the Beverly Centre. But as they do so, the lava hits a block on the Red Line subway and a massive geyser of lava erupts out of San Vicente Boulevard threatening the Beverly Center and its occupants.

Speed is of the essence, once the charges are planted, they are fired one by one, and the new 22-story Beverly Heights apartment building just across from the Beverly Center comes crashing down.

Does MIke save the hospital.....watch the film to find out.

The film is your classic disaster movie. All the elements that you would expect to have in the film are there. From the nurse having a selfish boyfriend to the hero having problems at home trying to reach his teenage daughter, and the scientist that no one believes. So don't expect anything new. If you like the classic disaster movie you will love this film. Tommy Lee Jones is as good as always. The special effects are spot on. Well worth watching