Volcano

To Hell with seismological studies, & geothermal surveys. If you're looking for a way to find out about an impending volcanic disaster, then what you need to do is get your recently deceased wife to commune with a supernaturally possessed, mute, Italian teenage girl. That's what our hero, Russell Woods was smart enough to do, & not a minute too soon, as the town's clerics were likely going to burn her at the stake, as a demon infested witch.

Luckily, she paints fairly surrealistic depictions of lunar cycles or some such hogwash, & sets volcano photographer Russell, the sole voice of reason, on the path to saving the entire population of the small Italian village where his late wife was raised.

Soooo... as of late, I've become a veritable connoisseur of crappy "Straight to video" disaster flicks, as I have a friend who works for Blockbuster, & he often gives me stacks of dvds that would otherwise have been destroyed, & turned into packaging materials, or shipped straight to a landfill.

Sadly, I now fear that I was too haste in interfering with this movie's final destiny, of rotting in a vast heap of trash. Now, far be it for me to be completely negative, so I'll offer something on a positive note. It is a small victory that I, a man of much patience, was able to sit through the entire 90 minutes of this film, which is more than I can say for the aforementioned Xander Berkley vehicle "Magma: Volcanic Disaster", which was so bloody dull & awful, I had to shut if off after an hour.

As for this slightly better volcano disaster flick, I'd recommend only watching it, if someone gives you a free copy, & you have 90 minutes to flush down the crapper. The up side is you'll have much more respect for Pierce Brosnan's "Dante's Peak", & Tommy Lee Jones' "Volcano" It'll make you laugh, & try, unsuccessfully, to make you cry, & you'll likely pause it, at least once, & forget you were watching it, & then go back & finish it, & then wonder why you just didn't forget it completely, in lieu of getting on with your life

Nature Unleashed: Volcano is one of several movies within the Nature Unleashed franchise. Going in with a name like that I logically expected a volcano themed disaster movie, I was kinda wrong.

You see this Bulgarian made movie with a Canadian, Italian and Thai cast is a weird creature in that it's a supernatural tale about a man who lost his wife to a volcano and goes to her home town in seek of some kind of closure.

Once there he discovers a mysterious girl who may have links to his late wife, but she is hated by the towns folk and considered dangerous and connected to satan himself.

This may sound interesting but the concept and delivery are utterly ridiculous and get gradually dumber as the movie progresses.

I haven't cringed this much in a longtime and though expected the film to be bad, I certainly didn't expect anything of this magnitude.

Embarassing stuff.

The Good:

Couple of the cast were competent enough

The Bad:

Hit and miss sfx

Unbelievable levels of idiocy from the characters

Plot is beyond moronic

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

I seriously want to know whether you can defibrillate a person who is wet

More religious folks crying wolf and damaging the community, life reflects art reflects life

This is a great movie Despite the bad comments from some reviewers It's a smart movie It's a well put together movie It's a movie that will appeal to the smart moviegoer Not the meat head moviegoer who justs want gun fights car chasers bombs going off and half naked chicks If you read the reviews on here you will see it is indeed mixed Their are people who are saying this movie is dull boring stupid And their are people saying it is great terrific outstanding Well it is easy to see which are the smart moviegoers And which are the meat heads I for one liked this movie but i'm a smart moviegoer I like a great story that makes you think Is it the greatest movie ever made no But it's not the worst i liked this movie And i liked it that much i went out and grabbed it form JB HiFI So it in my opinion is a great movie

Now onto the movie what is it about

A journalist Russell Woods life is destroyed When his wife is killed while they are reporting on a Volcano eruption After the tragic loss of his wife Russell decides to try to movie on He goes to his wife's place of birth In order to close that chapter of his life But once there Russell soon realizes he is being followed Followed by a strange girl named Angela A girl who has not spoken since an accident yrs ago Russell believes that this girl is connected to him In what way he does not know The religious towns people believe that Angela is evil Russell on the other soon starts to believe Angela Is in some way connected to his wife's tragic Death But Russell soon finds out that bigger events are unfolding And something supernatural has come to this religious town And Angela is the Key to it All

In my opinion This is a movie that Women would like more then most Men You see sadly most men fall into the meat head moviegoer space Not all men there are some like me that like a non meat head movie But most men fall into the meat head space But 90% of women like a good thinking movie with a touching story This is that kind of movie and for that I think women will like this movie more

But non MeatHead moviegoers give it a try

Most of the movie is some guy visiting his late wife's home town in Italy. Apparently, she has been trying to contact him from beyond the grave, and some wide eyed pixie in the town is receiving her psychic broadcasts. But, like always in these "Message from Beyond" stories, the message is always incoherent. The medium the dead wife chooses: some girl who has never spoken since surviving a near-death experience. And she paints pictures like a little kid's exercises with finger paint. Sound like Dragonfly? It is, but even cheesier.

The old cliché of a town in danger with an obnoxious leader is used, of course. A priest is the bad guy du jour who ignores constant prophecies of doom, and thinks the girl needs an afternoon at the exorcism salon. You'll see random images that in the end prove to be meaningless, lots of confused people skulking around, and an evacuation sequence that looks like a kindergarten playground at recess.

Some of the actors really try (the priest and the mute girl are actually pretty good in their roles), but are caught up in a looping plot that never goes anywhere. Mercifully, nature's fury is eventually unleashed, making everything else that happened pretty much pointless. For a boring weekend afternoon only.

Any volcano movie would have lava that would decimate anything touched. But The Volcano Disaster says "No!" to that. The lava in here is completely natural and not just shows real lava repeatedly, but also shows very runny sentient lava with almost a mind of it's own. And no movie would give someone the power to control a volcano's rage. You've never saw lava better than this. The fear of volcanoes is back. When a girl is forced given the power of her mother's volcanic spirit which erupts into life soon after the danger limit has exceeded, a young Italian volcanologist suspects disaster when a dormant volcano shows signs of reactivation and must save the town before danger exceeds past the limit. Join Chris William Martin on his quest to save the town from his deceased wife who now wants revenge on the town that saw her as an outcast. Lava has never been this hot so don't miss the action. You'll thank the director for this action packed movie with a sentient volcano, but watch your house. You may just find lava living underneath it. Who knew volcanoes were sentient? No one. You'll have a blast. Just don't let that blast be your bathroom sink or you'll have a meltdown.