Dante's Peak

Pros: great special effects, stars seem to have chemistry & enjoy themselves
Cons: cliché riddled plot, very predictable

For a while in the mid-90's, it seemed that the advent of computer generated special effects brought on a resurrection of disaster films, with special effects supervisors intent on showing the public just how terrific their work was. ...

Pros: Characters you can care about, some great action sequences...
Cons: ... some silly plot errors...

Dante’s Peak is a disaster movie in which Vulcanologist (”like Mr Spock but without the ears”) Harry Dalton(Pierce Brosnan) is sent to visit the newly crowned “second most desirable place to live in America” town of Dante’s Peak to check ...

Pros: Entertaining disaster movie with a good cast.
Cons: Predictable at times.

Over the years, many disaster movies have been made, some much better than others. I have seen and enjoyed several of them myself. In 1997, two different movies dealing with volcanoes were made. If I remember right, Dante's Peak< b>< i> was the ...

Pros: entertaining, special effects were alright, Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton were great
Cons: had a lot of scientific irregularities

It became common times in the late 90's when the natural disaster movies started to come out thanks to a new era of special effects. Twister became pretty successful, and Volcano was kind of an unbelievable take on the formation of a volcano from ...

Pros: Decent plot, good performances and dazzling effects
Cons: Formulaic disaster movie (But one of the best)

... I stood on the slopes of Mt. St. Helens one-year-to-the-day after the big eruption, and watched as it built an 800 foot lava dome. I walked across the active caldera of Kilauea as steam rose from bottomless pits of boiling mud.... ...

Pros: special effects
Cons: a tad unbelievable

Having seen this movie a few times, I was struck by the urge to watch it again. So with a nice glass of wine, I settled in front of the television to watch one of my favorite actresses, Linda Hamilton. I can’t explain what makes her one of my...

Pros: Special Effects
Cons: None

Pierce Brosnan plays Harry Dalton. He studies Volcano's. Linda Hamilton,plays Rachel,the Mayor of Dante's Peak. She has two children,Gram and Lauren. No husband,he left her years ago. Her X Mother-N-Law,Ruth lives near,up on the Mountain.

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Pros: Great visual effects. Good job by Pierce Brosnan for what he had to work with.
Cons: The kids. The grandmother. Linda Hamilton. The overdone, "ignored danger" story.

At the box office, 1997 seemed to be the year of the volcano disaster film. When you really think about it, a film of this type depends on how well the actual eruption and devastation is played out on-screen. Without a doubt, "Dante's Peak" delivers very...

Pros: memorable effects
Cons: diagrammatic, predictable, a little shallow

Dante’s Peak and Volcano came out within months of each other in summer 1997, and they make a great contrast. They were both hack-job special effects disaster movies. Both written with the time-honored disaster-movie formula. I swear there’s a machine...

Pros: Good special effects, I like explosions
Cons: Unbelievable, without the volcano, this movie is worthless

There's this little thing called suspension of disbelief that most movies and fiction rely on. Most of the time, the movie's supposed to do it for you. But sometimes you just have to ignore those things which may have less than a toehold on...

Pros: Good movie, great effects, beautiful scenery, great actors
Cons: none

This is one of my favorite movies and I have watched it many times since it's in my video collection. :) I wanted to get this movie because I like Pierce Brosnan is in this and of the movies I have seen him in are good. This movie didn't let me...

Pros: good effects, great disaster story, good acting
Cons: a little gory in parts and intense

If you are into disaster movies, than this is one you just won't want to miss. Yes, it's a little old, but it's full of action. Let me tell you what it's about. Dante's Peak has just been named the second most desirable place to live, but they have ...

Pros: better than infomercials
Cons: it just plain sucks.

First, I am not a fan of either Linda Hamilton or Pierce Brosnan. Why would I watch this movie? I was visiting a friend who told me this was a great movie and I should watch it.

A waste, I tell you, a waste.

Pierce Brosnan has...

Pros: A few nice scenes of destruction
Cons: Ill-conceived

Dante’s Peak is constructed like every other disaster movie and holds the distinction of actually being more predictable and poorly-written than most of them. This one takes its cues from Twister as applied to the volcano front, with an opening sequence...

Pros: None that I can think of.
Cons: The entire film.

Now I can't give this film a proper review because I didn't see it in the theater or on video. I didn't even really want to see it, so I was already fairly prejudiced against it. However, I was on a transAtlantic flight and figured why not. I only had 12...