Magma: Volcanic Disaster
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Movie Reviews of Magma: Volcanic Disaster
Movie Review: Not Too Bad.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a low budget film with low budget, mostly unknown actors. Still, they do an acceptable job dealing with a sorta-bad script. The effects are what you would expect for a film like this, but still it's fun to watch. I don't expect much when I buy films like this as most all of them are low budget affairs. So "you get what you pay for" applies here. Just be aware and enjoy what you get!Movie Review: Nice
Summary: 4 Stars
I'll start by admitting that the story may not be the best ever, but it wasn't that bad either. And the main reason I watched it, other than the natural disaster story,....Amy. Jo. Johnson. That's right the original Pink Ranger. My first tv crush, and she's still a crush of mine. I'd watch most anything she's in. I really enjoy this movie over and over again.Movie Review: Loved it!
Summary: 4 Stars
I really loved this movie-it's one of my favorites. The characters were real and interacted well together and I thought the plot was suspenseful! I would definitely recommend this movie!Movie Review: Magma: Volcanic Disaster
Summary: 4 Stars
Magma: Volcanic Disaster by Xander Berkeley, Amy Jo Johnson, Michael Durrell
Great movie!!
Movie Review: Rotten at the Core
Summary: 3 Stars
Magma: Volcanic Disaster: 5 out of 10: The always watchable Xander Berkley (24) and the impish Amy Jo Johnson (Pink Power Ranger) lead a surprisingly solid cast down made for television disaster movie hell.
With Made for TV disaster movies the questions are not how good are certain elements but how mind numbingly awful will these elements be. Stack the deck with the terrifying fact this is a made for Sci-fi Channel Disaster movie (Only PAX is worse) and anything above pure pain is a feat of cinematic luck. This is not pure pain.
As I said the leads were watchable and the screenplay liked to actually kill off characters on screen which is a nice touch. In addition Amy Jo Johnson's attempts to simultaneously bed Xander Berkley and save his marriage were more entertaining than anything else in the movie. (Usually in disaster movies these subplots put the "T" in tedium.) Alas the rest of the movie is a true disaster and both the screenwriter and the effects/sets departments share blame. First off all most natural disasters are not caused by man. Perhaps a look near a dictionary for the definition of natural might clear this up.
The idea that nuclear testing and chemical waste is polluting the core of the earth (it's solid by the way and starts about 400 miles below the surface) causing it to expand is not the most ridiculous premise for a movie (that is shared by this film's bigger sister The Core, The Day After Tomorrow and Sixteen Candles) but it is close.
As for the special effects guys I know the CGI lava looks bad and the model subs are wanting but if you're going to put the characters in a lava tunnel perhaps one without actual lights attached on the walls would be better. And what kind of underground mine was that anyway? It looked like a Styrofoam tunnel house.
The movie simply falls apart at the end with nuclear weapons once again coming to the rescue and a Yellowstone finale which was one of the funniest things I've seen all year. Magma is average in a field where the competition is awful.