Dante's Peak

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Summary: A volcanic dud
Review: Are you kidding me? A nice plot, but ridiculuous action scenes. Grandma pulling the boat through the acid lake--but the dock (wooden) is still standing. Grandma loses her legs even though she is shown with legs the frame before. Finally, the dog should have been fried twice. Too many impossible scenes. C'mon. At least Linda Hamilton is always easy to watch.

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Summary: Awsome
Review: I think this movie was really cool. It had a good plot, and some cool scences. I recomend this to those who like action movies

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Summary: Very Realistic and quite entertaining.
Review: Living in Western Washington, not far from Mt. St. Helens, I found this film to be very facinating. It reminded me of the actual 1980 news coverage of the St. Helens eruption. The special effects, acting and overall look were extremely good. Both lead characters displayed excellent chemistry on screen. It would be nice to see them together in a new film as I feel they are both talented and portray very likable characters. The sets, visual effects, chioce of "on-location" shooting and overall blending of live action with special FX made this film truly believable. Maybe they will produce some type of sequel - we can only hope. I was impressed with the film in the theater as well as the DVD release. Living in the shadow of Mount Rainier (only 50 miles away), I'm a bit concerned should Rainier ever decide to become a real life Dante's Peak!

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Summary: Nonstop entertainment makes Peak an instant classic
Review: Not only is this movie a real rush, but it is also wondefully acted by its great leads. Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton have awesome chemistry, and I would really love to see them in a romantic comedy, although that movie could never beat the spectacular ride of Peak, a work of action brilliance.

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Summary: Wow! A true winner!
Review: Dante's Peak was one of my favourite movies of 1997. It's exciting, smart, fun and has really outstanding special effects, some of the best I have ever seen. Why wasn't this movie nominated for best visual effects?? Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton ignite the screen! What a rush!

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Summary: Dante's Peak is an action masterpiece!
Review: Dante's Peak isn't just a mindless, blow-em-up extravaganza like Con Air. It's a smart, thrilling, and interesting masterpiece of state-of-the-art FX and story telling. The DVD is beautiful, with the 2.35 picture glorious in color. The sound is dynamic and thundering. To watch this film without widescreen and surround sound is like chopping off parts of a great painting and putting it behind smudged glass. Dante's Peak is one hell of a ride I'll never forget!

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Summary: BAD ACTING AND BAD EFFECTS= BAD MOVIE FOR SURE!!!
Review: DANTE"S PEAK is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. PIERCE BROSON and LINDA HAMILTON are awful as is the volcano effects. Avoid this picture if you can help it that's all I have to say.

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Summary: One of the worst movies of the decade.
Review: Terrible acting, terrible plot, terrible special effects. What else do you need to know!

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Summary: DANTE'S PEAK is an unforgetable FX-packed masterpiece!!
Review: DANTE'S PEAK is not only one of the greatest Disaster movies ever filmed, it is a breathtaking spectacle of Special effects, beautiful scenery, and heartfelt characters! The cinematography of this film is absolutely wonderful! The Special Effects are so realistic, You will actually feel like you are really seeing this disaster happen! The action is fast-paced and breathtaking as the heartfelt characters do all they can to make it out alive! Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton bring a romantic chemistry to the film that energizes the emotion of the film as well as the action! They work so wonderfully together and I hope to see them appear together again. DANTE'S PEAK is one fun ride of a movie that I will never forget! It's as exciting as movies come!!

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Summary: Excellent movie with a realistic twist.
Review: Many seem to have hashed "Volcano" which came out around the same time as "Dante's Peak" and it's a shame because both of them are highly realistic and te things that happen in them could literally happen in real life. Both of them are really excellent disaster flicks and are enough to really make you 'think' but even then they deliver incredible amounts of entertainment. In all honesty though, "Dante's Peak" is more realistic and has a more compelling twist to it due to the volcano's more destructive power.

In this case, a small town is thriving in the mountains of Washington state and has recently been declared one of the best places to live in in the United States. Dr. Harry Dalton, a scientist is sent to the vicinity to survey unusually high geological activity but one day he makes an alarming discovery that the volcano that the town sits on the base of, has come back to life and geological surveys have cofirmed that Dante's Peak is about to erupt in a cataclysmic eruption and wipe out the town and it's people. Rachel Wando, the town's mayor along with Dalton now must try to evacuate the town before the volcano erupts but their safety is stifled by their economic interests.

This is a really excellent and highly compelling movie. The special effects are absolutely thrilling and highly realistic and the movie's plot and script are very good. The lava and plumes of ash and dust are highly realistic looking and scary to watch as the volcano starts spewing out it's contents into the atmosphere and surrounding vicinity. The characters are excellent even though the acting could've been a little better but the acting for the most part is excellent by almost if not the entire cast.

I was thrilled to see this on the big screen because I have had a longtime fascination with volcanoes for almost my entire life and "Dante's Peak" succeeds in delivering a thrilling tone and is very enjoyable for most of its length. The DTS edition is absolutely incredible because the sound quality is a gargantuan improvement on both the VHS and older DVD editions and if you have a stereo system with speakers all around you, then hook them up and the surround audio speakers will make you feel almost like you're back at the movie theatre with the awesome sound quality.

If you can, get this movie whenever possible because it is a really excellent natural disaster thriller and delivers far more scares than these so called 'horror' movies because most of them are just mindless gorefests that are more gross than scary but "Dante's Peak" is scary because it is so realistic and such things could happen and could turn out much worse. For example Mt. Rainier near Seattle could erupt at any time and cause a lot of damage nearby and Seattle may be choked with dust if a full blown eruption occurs even though the city and most of its suburbs would pull through relatively unscathed apart from having a snow of volcanic ashes but it could cause social instability. Even Mt. St. Helen's caused a great deal of destruction and wiped out a large amount of forests around it. "Dante's Peak" is an excellent movie that should not be passed up. End of story.