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

| Jun 15, 2022

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

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

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002

The coast may be toast, but it's the lava, covering everything like a malevolent tide of melted butter, that makes this a disaster picture that's tastier than usual.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Hundreds of screen technicians obviously slaved on the effects -- and for what? A dopey subplot about a bogus arrest. Soap opera involving Jones' injured daughter.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Like the substantially better Twister, this film insists on a thunderous, exhausting pace that inevitably becomes deflating.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Volcano is an absolutely standard, assembly-line undertaking; no wonder one of the extras is reading a paperback titled "Screenwriting Made Easy."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A flatulent blast of superheated air from the seething bowels of Hollywood...

| Jan 1, 2000

Volcano is an embarrassment, albeit one of the so-bad-it's-kinda-good variety.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: B- | Apr 25, 1997