Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

js-sojkowski **SPOILERS** From the very beginning of this movie there is unrelenting action which continues throughout, leaving me in a state of perspiration as the credits rolled onto the screen. The special effects are visually stimulating and very realistic. The writing is unparalleled and the casts acting was fantastic, I haven't been so touched by a film since my first viewing of The Pianist. Great value for money too as there is extra footage added at the end that didn't quite make the film, also gripping stuff. This melange of a disaster flick may well be the directors magnum opus. It begins with the strong female lead having terrifying nightmares which led to... PLOT TWIST... her untimely death. Fantastic stuff. One hour and forty minutes of thrills and volcano spills, my idea of a good night.

skoyles Perhaps I was just in a sentimental mood but I found this movie, a melange of disaster flick, supernatural nonsense and romance, most appealing. The writing was much better than I might have expected and the ending was constructed with simple charming good heartedness. The cast, unfamiliar to me at least, is competent and the location refreshingly unusual. Clichés are present, if not abounding, but do not intrude too preposterously. Being a fan of neither volcanoes nor volcano movies I should not comment on the special effects but, given a modicum of "willing suspension of disbelief", there is little of which to complain. All in all a bit of a surprise, a triumph of character over special effects, of acting over action and of sentiment over science; all as it should be in a motion picture.

the_wolf_imdb Well... uh... oh. The first half is very boring, the second half is... just absurd. It looks like "The Exorcist vs. Eruption of St Helens". Or something like action version of German love movies. Or something like that. Unbelievable characters, poor effects... I have been especially shocked by something that looked like very bad science mixed with mysticism or devil possession or whatever it has been. I just don't get this, I think you shall not mix something real (like volcano) with something like possession. Well, there may be some warnings, but this... this has been just pathetic. What a waste of time, what a waste of my recorder's HDD space (just joking, I have erased this mess already).

Mojochi To Hell with seismological studies, & geothermal surveys. If you're looking for a way to find out about an impending volcanic disaster, then what you need to do is get your recently deceased wife to commune with a supernaturally possessed, mute, Italian teenage girl. That's what our hero, Russell Woods was smart enough to do, & not a minute too soon, as the town's clerics were likely going to burn her at the stake, as a demon infested witch.Luckily, she paints fairly surrealistic depictions of lunar cycles or some such hogwash, & sets volcano photographer Russell, the sole voice of reason, on the path to saving the entire population of the small Italian village where his late wife was raised.Soooo... as of late, I've become a veritable connoisseur of crappy "Straight to video" disaster flicks, as I have a friend who works for Blockbuster, & he often gives me stacks of dvds that would otherwise have been destroyed, & turned into packaging materials, or shipped straight to a landfill.Sadly, I now fear that I was too haste in interfering with this movie's final destiny, of rotting in a vast heap of trash. Now, far be it for me to be completely negative, so I'll offer something on a positive note. It is a small victory that I, a man of much patience, was able to sit through the entire 90 minutes of this film, which is more than I can say for the aforementioned Xander Berkley vehicle "Magma: Volcanic Disaster", which was so bloody dull & awful, I had to shut if off after an hour.As for this slightly better volcano disaster flick, I'd recommend only watching it, if someone gives you a free copy, & you have 90 minutes to flush down the crapper. The up side is you'll have much more respect for Pierce Brosnan's "Dante's Peak", & Tommy Lee Jones' "Volcano" It'll make you laugh, & try, unsuccessfully, to make you cry, & you'll likely pause it, at least once, & forget you were watching it, & then go back & finish it, & then wonder why you just didn't forget it completely, in lieu of getting on with your life