When Time Ran Out (1980)
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Vacationers at a resort islands find their idyll threatened when a long-dormant volcano reawakens. Fortunately, a steely-jawed, courageous oil driller is around to lead many of them to a safer part of the island. This is the fifth and least popular film in producer Irwin Allen's cycle of disaster movies. The television version Earth's Final Fury contains scenes that were not in the theatrical release.
| Rating: | PG (adult situations/language) |
| Genre: | Action & Adventure |
| Directed By: | James Goldstone |
| Written By: | Stirling Silliphant, Carl Foreman |
| In Theaters: | Mar 28, 1980 Wide |
| On DVD: | Feb 17, 2009 |
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All Critics (5) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (5) | DVD (1)
A real movie disaster.
The eruption, when it finally comes, is a wonderfully cheesy amalgam of wobbly back projection, bathtub tidal wave and scared expressions from the cast. It's not as hilariously awful as Swarm or Meteor, though, which is a pity.
...starts running out of entertainment value pretty early and continues on fumes until it sputters to a close.
Appalling.
With cheesy special effects (even the volcano isn't convincing, considering the film cost $20 million) and a hole-ridden script, this film offers precious little to like.
Audience Reviews for When Time Ran Out
Dumb unbelievable disaster movie from the end of that cycle that inexplicably stars some of the biggest stars of the 70's. Everybody seems pretty disengaged and it's sad to see William Holden once so vital and charismatic a burnt out shell, alcoholic and rather haunted. The special effects are laughably bad and the whole thing moves at a snail's pace.
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