Synopsis
Pierce Brosnan, the sexiest geologist you will ever meet, comes to Dante's Peak to investigate some irregular seismic readings. The town being small, he gets entangled romantically with its Mayor (with two kids). Him being single, he tries his best to be the dad or hero to this loving family. Amidst all the destruction brought about an exploding volcano.
This is a love story waiting to happen in our books with disaster as a side story. A very scientific side story as a matter of fact. This film will teach us what are tell tale signs of a volcano erupting in the near future. Smell of sulphur, water getting blazing hot enough to cook skinny dipping teenagers, spewing acid in lakes eating metal hulled boats and hard headed bosses telling him that there isn't an eruption coming.
A very slow moving but compelling movie, the film drags on at first establishing the roles they have and building momentum half into the story. Very well placed and paced, we love the slow approach on to the action filled other half.
Led by industry bigwigs during this time, we have Pierce Brosnan who is really dashing that whatever roles he plays, is very mesmerizing on screen. Oh he also acts good in this film, but we can't help it if we see James Bond suaveness here. Coupled with Linda Hamilton of Terminator fame, its quite difficult to see her as a helpless mother, mayor of a small town kind of thing. We still see her as the tough mother who won't get beef from Arnold Schwarzenegger. She gave a solid performance in spite of what we see her here.
Being a slow paced movie brings a positive thing to the movie, all the characters even the supports were given ample time to strengthen their roles that we "believed" in them. Their plus and minuses, we loved them all. There were some moments that we felt bad about them dying, being heroes, the whole film in itself is a good watch for a disaster movie.
