The new movie Dante's Peak displays all the elements of the classic Hollywood disaster flick, circa 1975 Irwin Allen (with stomach-turning dialogue to match).

| Jan 18, 2018

Can I recommend half of a movie?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2017

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2011

Leslie Bohem's script is almost self-parody, but director Roger Donaldson keeps a straight face throughout.

| Mar 31, 2008

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2005

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2002

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Dante's Peak is constructed about as skillfully as a disaster movie can be, and there were times when I found it working for me, sort of. But hasn't this genre pretty much been played out to the point of exhaustion?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A $100 million piece of piffle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

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

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 7, 1997