Nature Unleashed: 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

The idea isn't bad and it could have been a better movie had they picked some Italian actors to play the Italian people. Most of the actors use a very bad Italian accent and their Italian is awful and not authentic. Also the concept is good but it took it too far once the priests started trying to exorcize Angela.. then it got crazy weird to the point that i felt like I was watching 2 different movies.. the doctor pronouncing Angela dead when her chest is clearly moving up and down .. ugh.. it jumped the shark once that happened!

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.

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

The Volcano Disaster follows a man named Russel Woods, who, after losing his wife, goes to a small Italian village where his wife grew up.

However, all is not well in Italy. He meets a girl who had a near death experience on the same day that his wife died, and has been mute ever since. He investigates, and eventually discovered that this girl has been communicating with spirits, and in trying to warn the town of an unfortunate disaster.

This film, in my opinion, is actually very good. The plot kept me guessing, plot twists were almost everywhere, and the acting was decent. The only real complaint that I had was that the special effects could have been better, but they get the job done, and any problems came from a low budget more than from a bad director.

Overall, a very good film, highly recommended.