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A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Volcanic ash from a massive eruption in Yellowstone Park, engulfs the earth, creating a disaster of epic proportions. The beginning involves government leaning heavily on the geologists for a best case scenario, in order to avert panic. The scientific "think tank"s computer model suggest a much larger event, yet they yield to political pressure, downplaying the danger. Curiously, this movie seems very believable, as to how the world might react to an unprecedented disaster. "Supervolcano" is pessimistic, almost to the extreme, yet still fascinating. The movie gets high marks for realism, and viewer involvement. - MERK

It is difficult to classify this excellent BBC made for TV film. Would you call it an epic disaster film, sci-fi or futurism? No matter, Yellowstone is growing restless; computer models show it might be the big one. Yet the Madam President is more concerned about a panic on wall street than an evacuation of North Central States. FEMA effectively brow beats the scientist Dr Richard 'Rick' Lieberman (Michael Riley) into indorcing a cheery account to calm frayed nerves.As all fingers are crossed that the gloomy prediction of a mega-eruption will prove untrue, Yellowstone blows and Madam President scoots for all places but Florida. FEMA however would like to keep that quiet.The film is excellent for its portrayal of likely US responses: calm the panic on the stock market first before treating with life threatening problems. And of course Madam Prresident scoots for Florida. I thought that depiction of the true epitome of US courage an excellent touch. Be it remembered that Our Beloved President Bush passed water in Florida during the 2001 emergency before he ran away.The film suffers in over-estimating FEMA. If the New Orleans situation were a guide, FEMA employees would be out misusing government credit cards rather than attending to duties.Gary Lewis ... Jock Galvin

This is one of the scariest films I've ever seen. It's one of the best in the disaster film genre, light years better than anything that Irwin Allen ever did. It involves scientists studying and then warning of an impending volcanic eruption of Old Faithful at Yellowstone Park. The script was logical and completely believable, and the special effects were well-done. My only complaint was that the acting was mediocre, but the actors are not the primary focus of attention. This is clearly something that could happen in real life. However, it's important to know that what's displayed in this film is the worst possible thing that could happen, and several factors would have to come together for the events in this film to become a reality.

This was hyped up with a massive amount of trailers and one of the things I dislike about a lot of programmes these days is the hype they receive . I also noticed it was one of those very multinational productions like THE GRID so I was expecting a very mid Atlantic flavour full of bed hopping , mawkishness , action scenes , really poor dialogue and of course a happy ending but what I got was something unexpected The first episode is a bizarre mix involving soap opera , disaster movie build up and an episode of the BBC science show HORIZON . The characters are introduced and some of them are interviewed for camera . Instantly I thought this was a mistake since the interviews are conducted in the past even ie if they are interviewed then we know they'll be seeing the final credits and won't die . However when the supervolcano erupts setting off a chain reaction of other volcanic eruptions it becomes clear that the interviewees are out of the line of fire and the ones in danger haven't been interviewed hence they might die . So much for my conclusion that we'll be having an optimistic ending . What does become clear is that the human race may suffer the fate of the dinosaurs ! SUPERVOLCANO is gripping , informative and downbeat . It's maybe not as shocking as the BBC docudrama THREADS but in its own way it's just as effective . It's not flawless , for example the special effects look a little too like CGI in some scenes and there's bits that just don't ring true like people in Britain stocking up on food and water in the face of a coming disaster , sorry but we don't do that in this country - We just sit back in an apathetic manner in front the television with a cup of tea in our hands . Brits give fatalism a bad name . If I have one serious problem then it's the fact the narrative is too short . We find out that the ash in the atmosphere has blocked out much of the suns light meaning we have a " Nuclear winter " effect whereby even at the height of Summer the Earth's temperature will cool leading to all sorts of geographical disasters like famine in the third world where millions will die but this is only referred to in passing while another effect - The collapse of the American economy and all that entails - is not mentioned at all . But despite the flaws this is a pretty good speculative drama simply because iit's all too credible