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.
Read full articleWon't erase memories of 'Dante's Peak' or 'Volcano,' and even they weren't very good.
Read full articleIt'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.
Read full articleMostly this isn't the thrill-ride you might be hoping for. There's plenty of fire but, oddly, not much heat.
Read full articleSkyfire 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.
Read full articleImagine the rumble of 70s disaster flicks like Earthquake with the nature-gone-wild plot of Jurassic Park and you'll get the idea.
Read full articleUnless you speak the language, it may be unfair to judge the awkward dialogue. But what doesn't get lost in translation is a blazing rock crashing through a glass observatory, or a flow of molten lava swallowing everyone in its path.
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