Factual error: The volcanic lava in this movie moves incredibly fast in the subway line. This is not only inaccurate, but also ridiculous and unnecessary. Volcanic lava can possibly move faster when in a concealed area that insulates it, but insulated lava cannot move that fast.
Volcano (1997)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Mick Jackson
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Don Cheadle, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann
To divert the lava path, they collapse the newly built building. The building collapses, T. Lee Jones barely rescues his daughter and little boy from the collapse, and the lava is steered into the ocean.the new volcano is named Mt. Wilshire and is listed as A C T I V E.
Bill Bergquist
More mistakes in Volcano
Amy: Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.
Roark: What's magma?
Rachel: Lava.
Roark: Lava? Right here in L.A?
Amy: It is one of the possibilities.
Roark: We have a history of that here in the downtown area?
Rachel: Paricutin... 1943, a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is.
Trivia: The lava was primarily made of methylcellulose, the thickening agent used in fast-food milkshakes, and the ash was made mostly of ground newspaper.
Question: Near the end, how the heck did Tommy (the child) pass through the kitchen without being noticed by the cooks?
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Chosen answer: They were in a rush, trying to get things and get out.
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