Skyfire

Name: Skyfire
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: January 12, 2021
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Alice Rietveld, An Bai, Bee Rogers, Hannah Quinlivan, Jason Isaacs

2021

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Screen Media Films | Release Date (Streaming): January 12, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Alice Rietveld, An Bai, Bee Rogers, Hannah Quinlivan, Jason Isaacs, Lawrence de Stefano, Lingchen Ji, Owen Kwong, Ryun Yu, Shawn Dou, Shi Liang, Tongjiang Hou, Xinmo Ma, Xueqi Wang

Summary: A young scientist (Hannah Quinlivan) invents a cutting-edge volcanic warning system and returns to the tropical island where her mother tragically died, hoping she can prevent future deaths. The island is now home to the world's only volcano theme park and resort, the brainchild of its reckless owner Jack (Jason Isaacs). Chaos soon eruptsA young scientist (Hannah Quinlivan) invents a cutting-edge volcanic warning system and returns to the tropical island where her mother tragically died, hoping she can prevent future deaths. The island is now home to the world's only volcano theme park and resort, the brainchild of its reckless owner Jack (Jason Isaacs). Chaos soon erupts when the once dormant volcano starts to rumble. It’s a battle with nature to get off the island while fiery death and destruction rains down from the mountain.… Expand

Director: Simon West

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Thom Ernst

Feb 10, 2021

Director West makes excellent use of the film's set pieces, from runaway trams to spectacular underwater lava spills. Yes, Skyfire stretches believability to its breaking point. But with comic-book action so firmly planted in most every scene, any attempt at credibility would only be an unwelcome intrusion. Read full review

Richard Kuipers

Jan 13, 2021

This thrill-packed tale about an angry volcano wreaking havoc on thinly written characters at a luxury island resort plays like a souped-up and much better remake of Irwin Allen’s 1980 turkey “When Time Ran Out.” Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Jan 14, 2021

Skyfire is not a very good movie, but it isn’t the kind of bad movie that I feel compelled to come down on too hard. 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. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Jan 14, 2021

The admirable efficiency of Skyfire means that you don't have to waste a lot of time sitting through endless exposition. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jan 12, 2021

With no building of suspense, little connection with a lot of the thinly-scripted characters, and no volcano movie ever having much of a story to go with its effects, Skyfire still falls short of “Dante’s Peak” and “Volcano,” even if it is marginally better than “Miami Magma.” Read full review

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clem666

Dec 2, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jurassic Parc with no dinosaur?
Unoriginal plot with predictable complications. The movie desperately tries to follow parallel stories with differents characters than ain't even linked to each others: two couples (the young and the rich ones) and the daughter-father one.

Jason Isaacs (Jason Harris) is overacting and pushing its characters quite far for nothing better than an incomprehensible evolution. Wang Xue-Qi is notable in his quest of non-acting: not bad acting but just non-acting, like he has the same face from start to end. His daughter embodied by Hannah Quinlivan is far more expressive, sometimes a bit too much, but I guess it is for the better since her character clearly is one-dimensioned in the beginning. Better curb of development concerning her.

The nature is beautiful, especially the trees, the smoke and water. When it comes to lava, perspective and volcanic eruptions, it is way closer to ugly. Some shots manage to sadly get me out of it. The volcano seems to be against human since it is sometimes really good at aiming to people and important infrastructures. Plus the people seem to be immuned against volcanic gas and temperatures (especially during the first scenes). These last points unfortunately make this movie a lot more like science-fiction rather than actual dystopy. People resist too much to what can eaily kill them.… Expand

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