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Peak Performance
Dante's Peak, was the first of two "volcano diaster flicks" of '97. While it is infinately better than the Tommy Lee Jones version, of a similar story, I still found "Peak" somewhat lacking.

Volcanologist Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is sent reeling, followong the death of his wife, while studying the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in Columbia. Soon after though, he finds himself back at work, called to a small Pacific Northwest town to investigate the rumblings of the local dormant volcano. Though he instantly fears the worse, he must convince the skeptical townspeople and his suspicious superiors who believe he is overreacting in the wake of his own tragic loss. The town's beautiful, widowed mayor Rachel Wando (Linda Hamilton) believes him, however, and soon they find themselves in a fight for surrvival, as "Dante's Peak" erupts ten miles high, raining ash and fire over everything in its path.

Director Roger Donaldson has helmed his share of thrillers over the years, with modest success, including 13 Days and The Recruit. For Dante's Peak though, he shows some "spunk" with the special effects for the film. They are quite good in the movie. Quite frankly though, that also oulines part of the problem here, while Brosnan and Hamilton are serviceable, it's the script that knocks Peak off its stride. While the actors and action compensate somewhat, things can still get overwrought and predictable at times.

The Collector's Edition DVD offers a fairly wide array of bonus material. The commentary by director Donaldson and production designer J. Dennis Washington is pretty solid but can also be dry at times as well. The documentary is a fairly typical excercise but offers interviews with Donaldson, Brosnan, Hamilton, Ilona Herzberg and vulcanologist David Harlow, and their thoughts. As a bonus you can hear the film's underscore, in stereo, on a separate audio track during the documentary. Production notes, the theatrical trailer, storyboards, production designs, on set still photographs, the original advertising campaign, and access to the shooting script top of the disc.

Despite the film's problems, if you have to choose between either volcano flick, Dante's Peak is the better way to go.

Dante's Peak will Blow You Away!!!
I saw this movie in my science class for our unit and this movie was awesome! It begins with a volcano erupting and killing a scientists wife. But then he returns to the town of Dante's peak where it is being named 2nd best place on Earth to live. But the fun turns to terror when the huge volcano erupts, and the town must flee before the final pyroclastic cloud eruption wipes them all out. Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton are the two main people in the movie, in which Pierce and Linda, along with Linda's two kids and their grandma must escape the town. The movie is a little scary, with chases, explosions, and more. But if you like disaster movies like "Twister" then DANTE'S PEAK will blow you away!! The movie is PG-13 for violence/gore/peril.

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