Tommy Lee Jones might be trapped in this movie while Anne Heche steals the show.

| Sep 20, 2024

Unfortunately, Volcano is also faithful to Hollywood’s legendary lack of originality...

| Jun 15, 2022

The more I watch Volcano, the film holds up as the best volcano movie from 1997 with never-ending action.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2022

There's a glorious faux-plausibility to the proceedings that makes movies like Volcano all the more entertaining.

| Jan 8, 2019

None of it makes a hell of a lot of sense and the supporting cast are wallpaper thin, but Volcano is at least hot on entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Movies like ``Volcano'' exist for their gigantic, humongous, eye-popping special effects and this picture delivers those -- Big Time.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 8, 2019

You leave "Volcano" feeling a bit singed.

| Jan 7, 2019

Volcano, busily and cheerfully hysterical, always has some new fish to fry, new truck to melt, new skyscraper to tumble or new manhole to pop with a radiant gusher of movie magma.

| Feb 28, 2018

Volcano was really ahead of its time and time still hasn't caught up. In Volcano they thought of ways to stop the lava. They weren't going to give up L.A. You don't cast Tommy Lee Jones as the chief of emergency services and ask him to run.

| May 23, 2017

The fairly anticlimactic final stretch ensures that Volcano concludes on a less-than-engrossing note...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2017

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Pre-millennium tension is still the best explanation for the recent tidal wave of disaster movies--which hasn't made it any less boring.

| Sep 5, 2009

Never generates a head of true excitement, partly because the characters remain constructs designed to perform defined functions, and partly due to the time-worn hokiness of the whole disaster-film format.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

Jones and Heche work hard to dig up an emotional rapport from next to nothing, while the slow but inexorable progress of the lava makes for more suspense than the usual slam bang firework display.

| Jan 26, 2006

[The characters] aren't people; they're mere objects to stick in front of the flowing lava.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2005

The star is, of course, the volcano effects. Seeing the coast become toast may be the biggest draw for audiences to this routine F/X extravaganza.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 9, 2005

Movie bombs L.A. with lava, audience with stupidity

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 23, 2004

The special effects are impressive and the acting by Jones and Heche is good, although their roles didn't require much skill or inspiration.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 14, 2003

The film, about a volcano erupting in downtown Los Angeles, is helped immeasurably by veteran actor Tommy Lee Jones, who has enough charm and charisma to rescue just about any movie. He needs it all to save this one.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 16, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2002