Volcano (1997)
"The coast is toast."
Critics Score
🎬 51%
(RT: 48%, MC: 54) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jacqueline Kim as Dr. Jaye Calder
Is Volcano good?
It's divisive. Only 66% of audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 51%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA. Wikipedia ↗
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