“Eruption: L.A.” (**1/2 out of four) was a reasonably entertaining action thriller about a struggling screenwriter (Matthew Atkinson) who finds himself in the center of his own movie when volcanoes begin erupting all over L.A. and he has to team up with a novelist (Harry Van Gorkum) and a spoiled actress (Lexi Johnson) to stop them and save the city. Yes, it’s another disaster movie and is filled with the usual cliches and silly characters but it’s fast paced, never stops moving, and is jammed with visual effects. Better-than-most disaster movies over the last few years although this can’t measure up to 1997’s “Volcano” which it sometimes resembles.

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