Fantastic!

Better Late Then Never

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

First of all, I can't believe that this movie is so lowly rated at only 6.8 so that's why I am giving it ten stars because it definitely doesn't deserve such a low score. In my opinion, it is not a perfect 10/10 but more of 8.5-9/10. Secondly, I remember watching this movie when I was in middle school; I had science as a subject and my teacher played this movie for two class periods and man oh man did this movie instantly pique my interest. This movie was amazing as it provided a great educational side as it was very scientifically accurate. I remember that my teacher would pause throughout the movie to explain the phenomena that were happening and it would totally blow my mind (keep in mind I was a kid). Also, as a kid it greatly influenced my future as it motivated me to follow a scientific major that fed into my interest. So if this movie could impact me as a kid, I strongly recommend it to anyone else. Nonetheless, I loved the movie as I recently rewatched it and I still love it. Maybe it is the nostalgia kicking in or I am biased but this movie is a must see.

This mini was entertaining and the science wasn't TOO bad (at least, in comparison with most of these sort of shows). I enjoyed the "mockumentary" style, with a storyline interspersed with mock interviews with the major players, and it was visually quite impressive.My biggest beef, however, came from the ending. Just when I thought this show was about to move into the next phase, with the eruption and its aftermath, the credits rolled! I don't know if they'd blown their visual effects budget or what, but we were left with a dozen or more characters hanging, their fates unknown, and about a gazillion unanswered questions (like how did Rick get into the underground installation in Colorado?).I would have given it an 8 or 9 had it not been for this atrocious, up-in-the-air ending that was worthy of a 1970s B-grade sci-fi or horror, not a current BBC production.Personally, I wouldn't bother with it again. If it comes onto a TV channel, you might want to watch it out of interest's sake, but don't waste your money on the DVD like I did...

If you need to waste time completely, this movie is your thing. Unless you have more important things, such as studying the ceiling. Movies that needs to mix in documentary like views from the people that play scientists are probably the worst sort. Yellowstone is basically a supervulcano. Throughout the movie, things start happening underneath the park. The rest of the movie themes around arguing over whether it's false alarm or the real thing. When things start happening at the end, the movie of course ends. So don't think you'll see much of any grand spectacular movie effects. Nor any epic destruction of central US. The most exiting thing is a few men blown to pieces by a minor water eruption. Oh, and of course the sign of The End - Old Faithful shuts down.

Mild Spoiler Alert!!!The first wrong note this speculative drama started with was the ridiculous holographic display. The excuse that this was set in "the near future" doesn't work as everything else in the film is exactly as they are today. Then an unusual number of British actors appeared in roles that should have been casted to American actors. That probably doesn't make much of a difference to the non-English speaking backers of this film. Then we get inserted "interviews" like they do in those crime re-creation shows. The writing is frequently not very good and the actors were suffering for it. The shock edit techniques got tiresome early on. One actor seemed to have been instructed to imitate Mr. Scott from Star Trek. The whole thing was getting like those bad made-for-TV movies on the Sci-Fi Channel here. I was ready to find something else to watch.Then the first eruption happens and suddenly the film take a good turn. It gets very tense and urgent. The tone changes for the better and stays that way until about 10 minutes before the end when the film loses focus again.The science is much better than anything out of the Hollywood disaster machine lately. But that really isn't much to be proud of. Just turning by on the Weather Channel after the film was premiered, you could easily see that if a similar event happened just then, the outcome would be much different. Most of the ash would be deposited in Cannda, not that that wouldn't be with out it's own set of problems for the world.By the end I was wondering what the point of it all was. I had the strange feeling that this was all some sort of British fantasy about the lousy yanks getting their just desserts. Sort of like how "Rocky" was really a white boys revenge fantasy on African Americans. Or the many Hollywood films of the 1980's and 90's where the black character is killed off halfway thru the film as a subtle way to tell African-Americans that it wasn't a good idea to be heroic or try to be successful. Interestingly, something like this happens in Supervolcano when the ONLY black character in the film is killed by the volcano.On a technical note, the film was shown in a 3 hour time slot with plenty of commercial breaks and a 30 minute mini-documentary hosted by Tom Brokaw. I assume that nothing was cut.