rgblakey
Over the years for some reason disaster movies have found a fan base like you wouldn't believe. Most of them are a bit cheesy and make little to no sense, but still manage to attract stars as well as fans. The latest Super Eruption stars Richard Burgi with a title that pretty much speaks for itself, but does it explode with enough force to please the hardcore fans of this genre? Super Eruption follows two Yellowstone Rangers that are forced to fight to save the day against a super volcano that erupts after thousands of years of being dormant. As with most of these movies the story is a mix of possibility and the absurd in hopes to create an edge of your seat disaster flick, but fails to ever really step out of average. The story throws way too much in too fast that it felt like it was rushing to get to the eruption aspect and then never really delivers anything. The effects are pretty cheap and looked like something off the SyFy channel, but minus the cheesy fun. Bergi is always great and does a fine job here with what he is working with, but the rest of the cast are average at best. As mentioned previously the effects should have been the showcase to make a movie like this work, but they didn't offer too many of the fun moments you expect and when they did it just didn't seem like they really pushed it for that great effect.Obviously there isn't a great expectation of this film being a major blockbuster and is geared towards a specific audience, but those people look for a certain type of cheese and fun which this film lacks. There are sure to be those that love it and cannot wait to add it to their collection, but if you don't normally check these kinds of films out you will most likely be disappointed.
TheLittleSongbird
In fact I found this movie pretty awful. Not the worst I've seen from SyFy, but this is little consolation. The premise seemed decent if not exactly new territory, and I have seen some of the actors before and I wouldn't call them bad actors overall(I am especially looking at MyAnna Buring). But you would never guess seeing here. It is not terrible or hilariously bad as much, but nobody is really believable and come across as bland. It doesn't help that the script is so cheesy, wishy-washy and sometimes confused too, or that you don't care for the characters at all, for they continue to be written in an underdeveloped and stereotypical manner. The music is both forgettable and sluggish-sounding. But where Super Eruption really falls down is in the story and special effects. The story is a good, if as I've said familiar, but it manages to be predictable and preposterous, with the whole business about the main character being able to see and talk to herself from a different dimension through a computer doesn't make sense, was superfluous to the entire story and with a slightly longer length the film could've explained this much more. The romance was clichéd and hokey as well. I have seen worse effects like in Titanic II, but the ones here do still look fake and as though they were made in a rush. All in all, awful instead of super, dull instead of interesting and preposterous instead of plausible or thrilling, in short not SyFy's worst but still a disaster of a film. 1/10 Bethany Cox
petenh
This was terrible. All I can think of is that someone was trying to butter up Juliet Aubrey.OK, a reasonable enough premise, a scientist is studying the ancient caldera that makes up Yellowstone, and happens to catch something. But it quickly parts with reality when, in two days, the whole situation goes pear-shaped.Dante's Peak was at least a little more believable. In this movie, choppers seem to be able to fly through ash clouds without getting their engines fouled. Lava seems to defy gravity by flowing uphill to the special HQ tower. And, when they need a place to enter the magma dome, there is a perfect natural hole for them to descend into (after they said that drilling to the magma dome would take weeks). We won't even talk about the messages from the future that Kate receives, and how she is able to open a compressed file that did not complete transmission.Juliet Aubrey is OK to watch, but her acting is pretty wooden and unconvincing. The rest of the cast is so-so... Special effects are lame. The romance angle is hokey.I say skip it, unless you really have nothing better to watch
neil-upto11
Oh Lord... It's basically 'Dante's Peak' for TV but, er, with a time-travel 'twist'. Seriously.The basic set-up? Volcano threatens to destroy earth, no less. And it only gets more preposterous as we go on. A plan involving conventional rescue scenes and parallel universes is made even worse by terrible dialogue and feeble acting.It's a very poor film but, if you made it this far, I reckon you probably know that already!(Ps. I've had to add this line because IMDb wants me to pad out the review. I've opted not to subject you to any more about the film though. You've suffered enough.)
AD
