Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

dan-650 I was quite surprised at how much I liked this movie. I'm a fan of the genre, which probably makes me a more harsh critic than I would be of other movies, and I didn't expect much, particularly not given the lame title.The movie feels a lot more like a documentary than a drama. The science is respectable - not too techy, not too simple - and the acting is low-key and natural. I found myself disappointed that it was only about 1.5 hours long.Don't expect Academy Award-quality, but if you like cliffhanger disaster movies, this one is a nice little surprise.

noselasd If you need to waste time completely, this movie is your thing. Unless you have more important things, such as studying the ceiling. Movies that needs to mix in documentary like views from the people that play scientists are probably the worst sort. Yellowstone is basically a supervulcano. Throughout the movie, things start happening underneath the park. The rest of the movie themes around arguing over whether it's false alarm or the real thing. When things start happening at the end, the movie of course ends. So don't think you'll see much of any grand spectacular movie effects. Nor any epic destruction of central US. The most exiting thing is a few men blown to pieces by a minor water eruption. Oh, and of course the sign of The End - Old Faithful shuts down.

MrsFuzzy I'm not sure if I can *spoil* anyone's enjoyment by telling you what is not in 'Supervolcano'.No annoying child who refuses to obey his/her parents in a moment of dire emergency.No cute dog to be dragged from the jaws of death.No lean-jawed hero type performing super-human feats amid searing lava/magma/steam/boiling water.No sweet young woman to grow progressively grubbier as she escapes impending disaster.No tedious romance between the previous two characters.No scenes of self-sacrifice as someone gets squashed under fallen debris - the squashed person gets out, and he lives!No long winded,slow motion, pyrotechnic extravaganzas of major cities being blown up,crushed, swamped, engulfed, set on fire or otherwise obliterated.We don't even have our main character trapped somewhere and digging himself out with a teaspoon - he waits in a bunker and walks out when things get better.Maybe I'm labouring the point, but I did enjoy what is admittedly a fictional account of a possible future event because it demonstrated what could happen and the result. One gripe - the tsunami effect was pretty dire - looked like it had been done with a box of crayons.So despite the lack of the 'usual suspects' in terms of plot, effects and stereotypes - it was nice to see a bunch of actors I'd never seen before - the effects overall were very good.I enjoyed it very much, well done!

Chung Mo Mild Spoiler Alert!!!The first wrong note this speculative drama started with was the ridiculous holographic display. The excuse that this was set in "the near future" doesn't work as everything else in the film is exactly as they are today. Then an unusual number of British actors appeared in roles that should have been casted to American actors. That probably doesn't make much of a difference to the non-English speaking backers of this film. Then we get inserted "interviews" like they do in those crime re-creation shows. The writing is frequently not very good and the actors were suffering for it. The shock edit techniques got tiresome early on. One actor seemed to have been instructed to imitate Mr. Scott from Star Trek. The whole thing was getting like those bad made-for-TV movies on the Sci-Fi Channel here. I was ready to find something else to watch.Then the first eruption happens and suddenly the film take a good turn. It gets very tense and urgent. The tone changes for the better and stays that way until about 10 minutes before the end when the film loses focus again.The science is much better than anything out of the Hollywood disaster machine lately. But that really isn't much to be proud of. Just turning by on the Weather Channel after the film was premiered, you could easily see that if a similar event happened just then, the outcome would be much different. Most of the ash would be deposited in Cannda, not that that wouldn't be with out it's own set of problems for the world.By the end I was wondering what the point of it all was. I had the strange feeling that this was all some sort of British fantasy about the lousy yanks getting their just desserts. Sort of like how "Rocky" was really a white boys revenge fantasy on African Americans. Or the many Hollywood films of the 1980's and 90's where the black character is killed off halfway thru the film as a subtle way to tell African-Americans that it wasn't a good idea to be heroic or try to be successful. Interestingly, something like this happens in Supervolcano when the ONLY black character in the film is killed by the volcano.On a technical note, the film was shown in a 3 hour time slot with plenty of commercial breaks and a 30 minute mini-documentary hosted by Tom Brokaw. I assume that nothing was cut.