The entire city is on fire and burning from the ground up...and they are upset that their son is smoking cigs. LET ALONE they never told anyone about the fires, lava or about the two dead teenagers. The town was screwed from the get-go with this family of CEC. 😑
There is a reason why IMDb gives this movie a 2.6/10 and Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 31%.
They stripped video footage of real-life explosions and eruptions and placed the footage randomly throughout the movie to show the 'movement' of the lava without really having the lava be a part of the main plot.
The underlining theme was about sticking together and relying on family the work together and get stronger...I get that they were trying to use the 'disaster' to bring them all together. But the 'disaster' wasn't even placed in the forefront of movie.
The plot for this movie is almost non-existent...like the families concern for the lives of others outside of their family.
The family would just suddenly stop in the middle of finally realizing that what is going on is serious to 'open up' and to 'talk things out' as if they were such a broken family.
The parents came off as selfish in their hopes to just try and 'figure whats going on' without calling in the National Guard, Government or just the Fire Department to help put out the forest fires (which were completely forgotten about 30 minutes into the movie).
To be honest, I had hopes that maybe the Director was just weak in their hook in the beginning of the movie and maybe once the volcano started up, things would get more interesting. I fast-forwarded through at least 80% of the movie and I can honestly say that I didn't miss anything and I still feel like I wasted my time watching this movie.
I feel like they were trying to pull some 'inspiration' from "Dante's Peak" and failed miserably!
There is a reason why IMDb gives this movie a 2.6/10 and Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 31%.
They stripped video footage of real-life explosions and eruptions and placed the footage randomly throughout the movie to show the 'movement' of the lava without really having the lava be a part of the main plot.
The underlining theme was about sticking together and relying on family the work together and get stronger...I get that they were trying to use the 'disaster' to bring them all together. But the 'disaster' wasn't even placed in the forefront of movie.
The plot for this movie is almost non-existent...like the families concern for the lives of others outside of their family.
The family would just suddenly stop in the middle of finally realizing that what is going on is serious to 'open up' and to 'talk things out' as if they were such a broken family.
The parents came off as selfish in their hopes to just try and 'figure whats going on' without calling in the National Guard, Government or just the Fire Department to help put out the forest fires (which were completely forgotten about 30 minutes into the movie).
To be honest, I had hopes that maybe the Director was just weak in their hook in the beginning of the movie and maybe once the volcano started up, things would get more interesting. I fast-forwarded through at least 80% of the movie and I can honestly say that I didn't miss anything and I still feel like I wasted my time watching this movie.
I feel like they were trying to pull some 'inspiration' from "Dante's Peak" and failed miserably!