Dante's Peak (1997)
5/10
jason kerr
20 October 2015
Dante's Peak is about a volcanic eruption that has happened in a village. Harry the main character is a volcanologist, a few years ago his girlfriend died in a volcanic eruption while trying to get away.

Harry works in the USGS with his boss Paul and the staff, Harry is sent into a nearby village to work on a volcano that they think might erupt. Harry goes with the major, Rachel, and her children to her mother in law, Ruth, for Harry to inspect the wild life around the volcano. Ruth offered to go swimming in the springs with the kids, when they get there they walk down the path and they spot squirrels and trees burnt down, later on they go for a swim and Harry notices the spring is boiling while the boy runs to jump in to the spring Harry jumps and catches the boy. When they go back to the village he tells the major to put the town on alert so they have a meeting to see what they should do, but Harry's boss comes and stops the commotion. The next day they go up the volcano and put a machine called a spider up for safety but the spider breaks and one of his colleagues go to try and fix it but when he was doing that an earth tremor breaks some rocks which fall on him and break his leg. A town meeting is announced and puts the town on alert, but when the meeting is still on an earthquake comes and everyone goes crazy. Harry and the major go and evacuate, but when they go to get the kids, they had already left to see her mother in law. When they get to the mother in laws house they try to escape but the road is blocked by lava so they drive through it. After they get through the lava they go on a boat across the lake to get away from the lava. When they were sailing the acid in the water burns the metal boat and the motor on the boat was also eaten away by the acid. So the mother in law gets out and pushes the boat to save them by getting them to the other side. As they walk through the ash, the mother in law stops and dies because of the wounds from the acid in the water. They find a car and drive back to the village and get a device called an elf, which is a transmitter. Harry runs back to the car and an ash cloud pushes towards them. They get into an abandoned mine shaft to get away from the ash cloud. As they walk deeper into the mine Harry goes back to get the elf as the elf is a transmitter which lets the USGS know they have survived. So they can be saved.

I found the movie Dante's Peak interesting. The characters where well played and my favourite was Harry. I would give it a 5/5
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