Dante's Peak
DANTE'S PEAKÂ (15)
D: Roger Donaldson
Universal/Western Pacific (Gale Anne Hurd
& Joseph M. Singer)
USA 🇺🇸 1997
108 mins
Adventure
W:Â Leslie Bohem
DP: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Ed: Howard Smith, Conrad Buff & Tina
Hirsch
Mus: John Frizzell & James Newton
Howard
PD:Â Dennis Washington
Pierce Brosnan (Dr. Harry Dalton), Linda
Hamilton (Mayor Rachel Wando), Charles Hallahan (Dr. Paul Joseph Dreyfus), Grant Heslov (Greg), Elizabeth Hoffman (Grandma Ruth)
A natural disaster version of Jaws, in which a
vulcanologist warns a town of an impending eruption but the townsfolk won't listen until it's too late.
It's slightly better than the similarly-themed
Volcano (qv), released the same year and features a wonderful family moment when a little old lady is melted away by a sea of volcanic acid and not even James Bond himself can
save her.
As far as disaster movies go, it isn't
terrible, but it's not great either, nor is it particularly memorable.
5/10
