Dante`s Peak (UK)

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Certificate: 12
Running Time: 104 mins
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
Without warning, day becomes night. Air turns to fire, and solid ground gives way to white-hot, molton terror.

Brace yourself for action-packed, earth-shaking thrills, and whatever you do... don`t look back.

Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton star in an epic adventure from Director Roger Donaldson that will blow you away!

Erupting with spectacular special effects, heart-pounding suspense, romance and remarkable characters, "Dante`s peak is a blast" - The Washington Post.

Special Features:
Interactive Menus
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Production Notes
Filmography
US Trailer
Cast & Filmmaker`s Bios
Theatrical Trailer

Video Tracks:
Widescreen Letterbox 2.35:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian
Dolby Digital 5.1 German

Subtitle Tracks:
French
Swedish
Finnish
English
Greek
Dutch
Danish
Norwegian

Directed By:
Roger Donaldson

Written By:
Allan Scott
Leslie Bohem

Starring:
Jeremy Foley
Jamie Renée Smith
Linda Hamilton
Pierce Brosnan

Casting By:
Mike Fenton
Allison Cowitt

Soundtrack By:
James Newton Howard
John Frizzell

Director of Photography:
Andrzej Bartkowiak

Editor:
Howard E. Smith
Tina Hirsch
Conrad Buff IV

Costume Designer:
Isis Mussenden

Production Designer:
J. Dennis Washington

Producer:
Joseph Singer
Marliese Schneider
Geoff Murphy
Gale Anne Hurd
Staci A. Hunter

Executive Producer:
Ilona Herzberg

Distributor:
Universal Pictures

Your Opinions and Comments

7 / 10

An OK movie, I guess. Not as spectacular as I was hoping for, but an OK movie nevertheless.
The video transfer is clean and does not show any compression marks.
The nature scenes come out very spectacular indeed.
The audio is a bit disappointing. The DD 5.1 soundtrack is often too "soft" for this king of a movie. I was really hoping for my living room to be blown up with the volcano erupting, but it didn`t.
My region 2 disk did not contain almost any extra features at all. What a shame.
As I said before - and OK movie. Nothing more.

posted by Zvi Josef on 22/7/2000 03:46

6 / 10

Just seen Dante`s Peak on DVD. Before, I`ve seen it in the cinema. With this DVD, it`s not really a worse experience than being in a theatre. Face it: the theme is pretty chewed up and spat out by lot`s of filmmakers. Pierce Brosnan is his gentleman self which doesn`t really show off in a movie of fighting against a volcano that`s about to erupt, and Linda "Terminator" Hamilton as a obedient and motherlike figure is a bit odd as well. But, I have to say, it kept me entertained for the time it lasted. No really, the visual effects are pretty good (especially the so-called pyroclouds that are showing up at a certain point, watch out for those!) and the audio wasn`t really too convincingly surrounding as I might have expected for a DD5.1 track but then again, you can`t have it all.. Picture quality was crisp so no problems there, features were not present (apart from the Cast&Crew bullocks always present, and "whoa" a genuine chapter list). Overall: a nice thing to see in a spare hour and a half, but not one of the greatest around.

posted by Martijn on 27/7/2000 04:57