Jeffrey L. Ward Jack Collins as Jack Collins. Walker Brandt Marianne as Marianne. Roger Donaldson. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Volcanologist Harry Dalton and mayor Rachel Wando of Dante's Peak try to convince the city council and the other volcanologists that the volcano right above Dante's peak is indeed dangerous. People's safety is being set against economical interests. Exploding soon. Rated PG for disaster related peril and gore.
Did you know Edit. Trivia All crater scenes were shot at Mount St. Goofs at around 1h 3 mins Harry's truck emerges from the river completely dry. Quotes Greg : It's coffee time!
Connections Edited into Tycus User reviews Review. Top review. One of the best disaster movies of the late Nineties.
Disaster movies can be a fun way to spend some time idle, although most are not particularly cinematically remarkable. This movie fits that description well. The action takes place in a small rural village that has just been considered a great place to live in the US, but lives in the shadow of a sleeping volcano.
What no one knows is that this volcano appears to be in full swing and threatens to explode. The movie quickly creates tension among the audience, and it serves well to grab our attention. I am not the best person to judge the script's ability to be true to the scientific facts underlying a volcanic eruption, I just accept what I saw tacitly, but I admit the possibility the film is not very true to science.
The initial half is slower and the action is concentrated on the final half, which is basically a race to escape the volcano. There are some loose ends and inconsistent details, like that scene where a girl, who doesn't even reach the car's pedals, can drive off in a jeep. Query: Can a utility vehicle actually ford a river with its engine completely underwater? Oh, and of course the Obligatory Unrelated Opening Crisis, which is defined by Ebert's Little Movie Glossary: "In an action movie, the spectacular title sequence that never has anything to do with the rest of the story.
That it is skillful is a tribute to the filmmakers. Roger Donaldson "Species" is a good director who pays attention to the human elements even in a fiction machine like "Dante's Peak,'' and Gale Anne Hurd , the producer, is a specialist in action films " Aliens ," " Alien Nation ," "The Abyss," "Tremors," " Terminator 2: Judgment Day ".
They orchestrate the special effects so that they look and feel real mostly , and in Brosnan and Hamilton they have actors who play for realism and don't go over the top--never screaming, not even when molten lava sets their truck tires on fire. The soundtrack is especially effective.
Is it a case, for me, of simply being overfamiliar, right down to my bones, with the ways in which "Dante's Peak'' is simply an old movie in new clothing? For a film like this to work, one must be caught up in it. But every time another familiar story element was trotted out the gun-shy investors, the pooh-pooher, the dog , I was bungeed back to reality.
In one detail I was not disappointed. Recently in my "Movie Answer Man'' column there has been a discussion of whether a man can outrun an explosive fireball. The conclusion was that it cannot be done in life, but can be done in the movies. A correspondent wrote me with news of a Jaguar that outran a shock wave from Mt.
Helens, while a hapless utility vehicle was fried. This led to much discussion how far away were the two vehicles? New hot springs appeared. A small volcanic crater formed near the outlet of Karymsky River on the northern lake rim. Eventually, everything was covered with a layer of mud.
The pH has returned to 7. The water is clear. Still, the lake is about three times saltier than before the eruption. The new hot springs pump more minerals into the lake, keeping its salinity higher. Taran and his colleagues will continue analyzing the chemistry of Karymsky Lake and the new hot springs, he said. It has a very unusual hydrothermal chemistry that nobody has tried to understand," he said. Email Becky Oskin or follow her beckyoskin.
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