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80
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
But a great sense of pace is a wonderful thing, and director Jackson and his crew (who made good use of hand-held and Steadicam shots and reportedly averaged an impressive 30 to 40 camera setups a day) move so quickly from shot to shot and location to location that viewers have a limited time to dwell on the film's predictable implausibilities.
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75
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
In fact, this is one of the best pure disaster movies ever made (not that it has much competition). Congratulations to director Mick Jackson for a job well done.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
I had a pretty good time at Volcano. The reason I didn't have a better time is that the characters aren't just schlocky, they're boring.
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60
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
In Volcano, the thrills are so well wrought that they eventually lose their novelty and become numbing.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
With its fake-looking technology and empty characters, Volcano eventually becomes as obvious as its what-if premise.
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50
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Washington Post
You hope against hope that the lava flowing through the city will wipe out Los Angeles and everyone in it, if only to prevent them from making more movies like this.
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50
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
This disaster film has action from the get-go; but its awesome special effects hide a laughably corny plot, and for a picture about terror from the depths, its characters are ridiculously shallow.
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50
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San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
Congratulations to director Mick Jackson and writers Jerome Armstrong and Billy Ray for liberating themselves from the tedious demands of believability.
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40
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
While disaster yarns aren't known for subtlety, there are limits, and Volcano giddily goes beyond them.
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38
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This is a surprisingly cheesy disaster epic.
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