Skyfire

It's all far more entertaining than it likely has any right to be.

It's no great leap forward in filmmaking, but the big-budget disaster movie "Skyfire" does prove that China is now capable of producing its own brand of utterly preposterous and enjoyably trashy popcorn entertainment for a global audience.

Won't erase memories of 'Dante's Peak' or 'Volcano,' and even they weren't very good.

It's extremely heroic and a lot of fun. I had a hoot!

It's dumb and cartoonish as can be and there's never a single moment in which you care at all about anything going on, not even when they drag in an endangered child in order to tug on the heartstrings.

Mostly this isn't the thrill-ride you might be hoping for. There's plenty of fire but, oddly, not much heat.

“Skyfire” unashamedly follows the long and trusty line of thrill-a-second disaster films. And like those other movies, “Skyfire” has the sole aim of keeping you on the edge your seat with a barrage of fun, non-stop, CGI-infused action.

...the hoariest of setups thats employed to initially passable yet increasingly tedious...

You'll have some fun but you'll have to endure countless insults to your intelligence and morality along the way.

Skyfire is a disaster thriller composed of equal parts cheese and magma, but it's clearly trying to recreate the good vibrations of the original Jurassic Park.