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small team of scientists and their military protectors race against time to
stop the eruption of the largest volcano that has ever been discovered. If they
fail, it will mean the end of life on Earth. Working against them are strange
weather phenomena caused by gases venting into the atmosphere, swarms of
locusts driven wild by the same gases, and a new type of fungus that releases
spores that drive the victims they infect into murderous frenzies.
The
title of this is a little misleading. It could really have been named anything
and still been a decent movie. The only appearance that the supernatural
horsemen of biblical reference make are during the hallucinations of an
infected soldier. The rest is the typical disaster film, a little choppy in the
editing department and using voice overs to fill in what was obviously scenes
that the independent studio did not have the budget to shoot. The cast consists
of actors that have made their careers mainly on the small screen, and this is
no exception seeing as how it was sent straight to video upon release. The only
thing of note in this is the gender of some of the main characters. The general
in charge of the military operation, as well as two of the three scientists,
are all women, which is unusual in most movies of this sort but also highly
refreshing. There is no eroticism, very little strong language, and,
surprisingly, hardly any gore. Good for preteens and up.
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