It you are looking for a movie that you don't want to think too hard about, this is the movie. It has lots of scenes and stunts that make this movie an action thriller. If you are looking for a movie that has good writing, continuity, commonsense, etc., you'd better look elsewhere.
Harry Dalton, who is proclaimed to be a renowned scientist and foremost authority on volcanoes, comes off looking more like a spoiled brat, than an expert. He attempts to try calling a townwide alert for a pending disaster that none of his colleagues agree with. They ask him to give them some scientific proof to justify his claim of pending doom. Instead, he pouts about it.
Harry is assisting with the deployment of a mechanical device to measure seismic readings and the device gets stuck on the side of the mountain. The device cost more than 450,000. Why didn't the helicopter set the device down on the valley of the dormit crater. Harry insists on alerting the town and not one of his collegues again agrees that disaster is about to occur. Harry starts to pout again and its off to a roll in the hay with the mayor, Rachel.
When disaster finally does strike, Harry appears to lose any ability of commonsense, needed for even the simplest of disasters. He starts off the movie, driving like it was a demolishion derby, then later in the movie, attempts to push a car off the bridge. Later, he trys to cross a stream that is at least three to four feet deep. He scoffs at other cars trying to do the same thing as really stupid. He gets stuck (dah)and only by the grace of the producers did he get away safely. Then, he drives away without any problem whatsoever. The law of physics says that a motor immersed in water will not run. Harry proceeds to drive over debris with superhuman results. When it seems that they were trapped, they stumble over an alluminium boat for their getaway. They notice all the dead fish and the boat being eaten by acid. As the water eats the propeller off the boat, Harry wraps his arm with his jacket and starts rowing the boat. When Ruth fears for everyone's safety, she jumps in the water and pulls the boat to safety. They show where the acid ate her legs off, but where the water had gotten on Harry, he appeared fine. Harry finds a truck and drives the crew off to safety. When he tries to drive over hot molten lava as wide as a river, I stopped and wondered if he was sane at all. With a gas tank made out of alluminium, how did he, a scientist, expect to drive a truck, loaded with Rachel and her two kids over fifty to 100 feet of molten rock and not melt or explode as the gastank melted. Toward the end he finally gets smart and gets the NASA device. Why he didn't try to find another vehicle without melted tires is beyond me but, I guess thats Hollywood. Well, he puts that device in the truck and rams the truck into a cave. The problem is he forgets to turn it on. Dah! Harry - wake up!
Two days later, Harry's crew sees the NASA light blinking and immediately realizes that Harry is ok. Why didn't it cross their minds that someone could have come back in town and simply turned it on.
Maybe Harry was really the owner's son and constantly got into scrapes like this because he was overtly stupid and it was their jobs to lookout for Harry.
In either case, watch it for fun, but don't analyze it for quality in script or content.
Harry Dalton, who is proclaimed to be a renowned scientist and foremost authority on volcanoes, comes off looking more like a spoiled brat, than an expert. He attempts to try calling a townwide alert for a pending disaster that none of his colleagues agree with. They ask him to give them some scientific proof to justify his claim of pending doom. Instead, he pouts about it.
Harry is assisting with the deployment of a mechanical device to measure seismic readings and the device gets stuck on the side of the mountain. The device cost more than 450,000. Why didn't the helicopter set the device down on the valley of the dormit crater. Harry insists on alerting the town and not one of his collegues again agrees that disaster is about to occur. Harry starts to pout again and its off to a roll in the hay with the mayor, Rachel.
When disaster finally does strike, Harry appears to lose any ability of commonsense, needed for even the simplest of disasters. He starts off the movie, driving like it was a demolishion derby, then later in the movie, attempts to push a car off the bridge. Later, he trys to cross a stream that is at least three to four feet deep. He scoffs at other cars trying to do the same thing as really stupid. He gets stuck (dah)and only by the grace of the producers did he get away safely. Then, he drives away without any problem whatsoever. The law of physics says that a motor immersed in water will not run. Harry proceeds to drive over debris with superhuman results. When it seems that they were trapped, they stumble over an alluminium boat for their getaway. They notice all the dead fish and the boat being eaten by acid. As the water eats the propeller off the boat, Harry wraps his arm with his jacket and starts rowing the boat. When Ruth fears for everyone's safety, she jumps in the water and pulls the boat to safety. They show where the acid ate her legs off, but where the water had gotten on Harry, he appeared fine. Harry finds a truck and drives the crew off to safety. When he tries to drive over hot molten lava as wide as a river, I stopped and wondered if he was sane at all. With a gas tank made out of alluminium, how did he, a scientist, expect to drive a truck, loaded with Rachel and her two kids over fifty to 100 feet of molten rock and not melt or explode as the gastank melted. Toward the end he finally gets smart and gets the NASA device. Why he didn't try to find another vehicle without melted tires is beyond me but, I guess thats Hollywood. Well, he puts that device in the truck and rams the truck into a cave. The problem is he forgets to turn it on. Dah! Harry - wake up!
Two days later, Harry's crew sees the NASA light blinking and immediately realizes that Harry is ok. Why didn't it cross their minds that someone could have come back in town and simply turned it on.
Maybe Harry was really the owner's son and constantly got into scrapes like this because he was overtly stupid and it was their jobs to lookout for Harry.
In either case, watch it for fun, but don't analyze it for quality in script or content.