someone should write a book on how to make a sci fi original movie . and disaster zone represent volcano in new york could be chapter one . first question to the film maker represent there be two fairly good hollywood volcano movie in the 1990s . they weren not classic suspense or disaster film and but they have some ripping moment and good popcorn stuff . do you really decide to make dz representvinw inferior to those film in every category . i mean and it must have be a conscious decision because that be the end product . it succeed on not a single level . second question represent since you have no inkling of how to build suspense and can not you admit that to yourself and give yourself an education while couldn not you at least hunker down with a dozen hitchcock film and study how a master do it . he doesn not hit you over the head with lot of shout of inanity ( it go to blow and we have get to get out of here and etc . ) or have music hitting every single moment with some scene to scene score . music be a spice and not the whole meal . dz representvinw use of music be like chew gritty pepper . do i mention hitting . my eyeball be hit and hit and hit again with the most look at me use of photographic annoyance extant . jiggle zoom in . jiggle zoom out . jiggle pan . jiggle . jiggle . jiggle . and do it all every single second . it doesn not look like hand hold and either . it look like the camera be attach to a rock polisher and a cake mixer and a pile driver whatever be handy that could make the viewer queasy and annoy and and distract . so much for mount tension . and the poor actor ( actually some pretty good actor ) . this bring me to question three represent why not make it a silent picture since you have no ear for dialogue or how people actually speak and act in dramatic situation . seriously and the best actor in the world can not make lead look like diamond . of course and care about these actor in their role be a joke . no matter how close they be to sear death and no matter how precarious their emotional circumstance and i could only chuckle . to summarize represent dz representvinw be really no bad and no good than the other under shoe feculence of the sci fi channel ( not count it rather good series and stargate and battlestar ) . i be sure the film maker be nice people and will do good work elsewhere . but there something about the sci fi channel that contractually force talent to make dreck .