Lava Storm (2008)

Just perfect...

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Yet another made-in-Canada, paid-for by Canadian taxpayers, piece of Canadian movie crapola. The Canadian Film Development Board (or whatever it's called) should have taken the money it wasted on this film and just sent the five actors to acting school for a couple of weeks, followed by a one-way ticket to Hollywood. Let them take their chances. How does ash fall from the sky when nothing has erupted yet? How does magma flow knock out cell phones, cable TV and presumably radio? Why does the nearby bit city appear to be abandoned? The ''disaster'' epicenter is close enough to that big city you'd think some scientists at the local university would be monitoring seismic activity. Instead the entire city's safety appears to be in the hands of two small-town emergency-response clowns. Grampa and the two obnoxious kids getting stuck in the bomb shelter is a metaphor for movie viewers being stuck watching this, dreading the end of the world. Canada needs to stop making movies. We're not very good at it.

I gave this a 10/10 because in one scene, the lead actor almost tripped when running with a launcher.....otherwise there was NOTHING redeeming with this show.one of the stupidest scenes was the lead female getting stuck under a rock, when there was at least 3x the room to go OVER it.I suggest either getting snot puking drunk before watching this, or forgoing it altogether, and watch some dust settle, or paint dry! Far better time!

I don't usually comment, but this one outdid itself for ignorance. SPOILERS:1. tying a tourniquet below a wound doesn't make sense... even for the untrained person, any idiot knows that wounds need to have the flow of blood staunched. 2. how people can get their feet stuck when their body has managed go through a tunnel is beyond me. 3. best idea ever... blow up a dam with your son standing at the bottom of it...This movie is pathetic in everything it attempts to do... it won't bring families closer together, no one in their right mind would hand an avalanche bazooka to a teenager with a chip on their shoulder, and 4 shells when you mess up two means that there is a lot of Hollywood fairy dust sprinkled liberally to make it split "just so"so let me get this straight... these are the last 5 people on earth? if so, it's a sad, strange, lonely world.when a 13 yr old says "oh come on" you know it's pretty bad.

Lava Storm uses the lava storm as a metaphor for a family on a brink of destruction. The insightful dialog references the underlining problem well. The disaster makes the family members regain the trust and care for each other. Great application of HD cinematography. The accomplished depth of field, contrast and application of multiple shades of warm colors indicate mastership on the cinematographer's side.Cute and compelling cast. Ian and Valerie make a seductive couple. The locations and visual effects work well to depict the disaster. The visuals are nothing short of ones seen in big blockbuster movies depicting similar situations. It's great to see how much can be done on a 100 times lesser budget. If you are into the genre but also appreciate good plot, I recommend this movie.