Let's face it, this flick is the disaster movie genre's walk of shame. They've had their fun throughout the 70's, now it's time to stumble back home looking like a complete mess and falling flat on their face.
It's a shame that such an ensemble of actors only got a daytime tv drama loosely following The Poseidon Adventure to work with. The two that were actually in The Poseidon Adventure, must have been thinking they'd been here before.
What a waste of those two as well, what a waste of everybody. You have the leading man already known to heroically swoop people from a burning skyscraper, give him more than a wooden bridge to step up to as a challenge , for Inferno's sake!
Talking of that bridge, it feels like it takes them half the movie to cross it and they've only just spent what felt like half the movie again shuffling across a ledge, so yeah it drags even in the, "exciting bits".
The effects are cheap and fake looking, even for the time and I swear the proximity of the volcano changes throughout the film, it's like it's slowly sneaking up on the hotel.
There's not even a campiness or iconic character in there to at least allow it the dignity of being a so bad it's good cult movie and this is coming from someone who watches The Swarm every few years for entertainment.
Disaster movie completists only for this one I think, (I'm one of them), basically it's the scraps of its predecessors pressed together and hoping for the best. The most entertaining bit about it is spotting the bits borrowed from other films.
It's a shame that such an ensemble of actors only got a daytime tv drama loosely following The Poseidon Adventure to work with. The two that were actually in The Poseidon Adventure, must have been thinking they'd been here before.
What a waste of those two as well, what a waste of everybody. You have the leading man already known to heroically swoop people from a burning skyscraper, give him more than a wooden bridge to step up to as a challenge , for Inferno's sake!
Talking of that bridge, it feels like it takes them half the movie to cross it and they've only just spent what felt like half the movie again shuffling across a ledge, so yeah it drags even in the, "exciting bits".
The effects are cheap and fake looking, even for the time and I swear the proximity of the volcano changes throughout the film, it's like it's slowly sneaking up on the hotel.
There's not even a campiness or iconic character in there to at least allow it the dignity of being a so bad it's good cult movie and this is coming from someone who watches The Swarm every few years for entertainment.
Disaster movie completists only for this one I think, (I'm one of them), basically it's the scraps of its predecessors pressed together and hoping for the best. The most entertaining bit about it is spotting the bits borrowed from other films.