Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city! In the city of Los Angeles, it is nice quiet and routine. Until an earthquake occurred. The director of the city's emergency management, Michael Roark believes that something big is about to happen, so he finds a geologist named Amy Barnes to help him investigate. What they will realize that the earthquake is a sign of a volcano forming in the city. The volcano formed at the La Brea Tarpits. Now Roark has to use every resource in the city to stop the volcano from consuming Los Angeles. To say the least,this movie has several faux pas but it is entertaining. The action is great! However,the acting is somewhat contrived and never to be taken seriously.In fact,this movie is almost like a cartoon. The science also falls short.Yes,a volcano did rise up in Mexico-but that is the only recorded one in history! This just doesn't happen every day! As a fantasy,which it really is however,the fine humor and inside gags make it a picture to see-I give it an "8" PS-I have the video and watch it often. Like, oh my god! this is sooo awful!<br/><br/>Ugh. What a terrible vehicle tailor-made for the post-fugitive Jones. Shots of him in charge of whole troops of officers, barking orders. Shots of him seeing a kid at the last second wander towards the lava, shots of him outrunning the demolitions/explosions going off to get to the kid, shots of people searching for them fearing that they are dead, shots of people all covered in ashe, not even mulling around, but just standing there (these are emergency-type folks), shots of the friends pulling up in a car to their exact spot all clean and with the family dog. The immediate cutting to a news anchor proclaiming that the volcano has immediately and miracously gone dead (according to satellite shots), just after they managed to redirect the lava flow to the sewers (well, LA "River"). The so so so lame music that tries to be so moving that it exacerbates it's own ridiculouness by being placed in a "B" disaster movie (as in, it belongs in something in "Glory", not in this).<br/><br/>Soo, soooo, soooo bad. The director is simply terrible. Yes the script is bad, shoot, the concept is weak, but almost no disaster script is ever good. The fact is that the director had no originality, had no idea what he was doing, and did it for the cash. Don't beleive me? Let me give you a little lesson. Hate it or not, Hollywood executives know what they are doing. They may be a little conservative and sometimes not give people a chance, but when they do, they learn from their mistakes. This guy has not been given anything since then. some TV movies (which is what he did before…) LA Story is tepid directing (only Steve Martin, and the SCRIPT are any good), and the Bodyguard, well, actually his directing there is much much better…but the movie only did well because of whitney and the soundtrack, and everyone in the biz knew that).<br/><br/>The script, urgh. Anne Heche's career died, not just because of her stupid high profile publicity seeking hijinks (i hope all other clients of Heche's managers and publicist fired them for their ineptitude) but because she is not really a good actress, and not really a liable woman. Jones, well Jones is simply a character actor, who over acts. Nothing more. It's fine when he has small parts - Fugitive, The Client, Space Cowboys. As a lead, god, he greats on you and everyone - comeone, US Marshalls everyone? As two face in Batman Forever? Rules of Engagement, Natural Born Killers? Over actors Anonymous need to step in here.<br/><br/>Ugh, I actually bothered to rent Gigli to see how bad it was. it wasn't it was simply boring to a point that i couldn't care about the story and started emailing. But it wasn't "bad" (and that gobble gobble line, you have to watch how she says it, not a memorable line, but i wouldn't have have it was an insipid line if it wasn't so talked about in the media (it's about cunnilingus))<br/><br/>later. This is a surprisingly cheesy disaster epic.
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