When Time Ran Out

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Blu B I had the unfortunate luck of seeing the extended version. It got so boring that I had to do study a new language to make it through to the end. This is truly a candidate for the most boring hardest to sit through thing I've ever seen. Not the worst thing ever made because it makes perfect sense but man there is no concept of pacing in the slightest and I can't imagine cutting 20 minutes would've moved that needle. The editing also is so jumpy, sloppy, and lazy at the same time. It's horrifcally bad all around. No one has any real character to them and has no emotion half the time and when they do it feels so phoned in. The direction is so lifeless and uninspired. The production value is so cheap looking including the lazy stock footage of a volcano erupting. This easily could've been cut to a 30 minute short flick and 90% of characters cut and even than it still would'nt be good I don't think. I truly can't state how fasinatingly boring this gets. Anytime it picks up the slightest bit of momentum it cuts to characters standing around talking. Scenes always feel like they are double the length they are. This truly feels like 4 hours. Paul Newman is ok and probably the one close thing to being good but my god. All the explosions, destruction and starpower and it's amazing how it just adds up to nothing. Even the music gets draining on the ears and gets beyond boring. How do you do that....seriously skip this. It's a poor mans version of Dante's Peak/Volcano. A really bad poor man's version. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/14/24 Full Review Simon T Irwin Allen only ever produced one kind of movie: a bunch of contractually obliged A-listers arguing about the threat from bees, volcanoes, skyscrapers, upside down cruise ships, etc. This late entry is the last gasp and is very very bad. What on earth is Paul Newman doing here? Collecting a fat pay-cheque, one hopes. Deservedly forgotten. A complete waste of celluloid. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 12/29/23 Full Review Steve D Forgettable yet entertaining enough. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Irwin Allen is the Master of Disaster. But not in a good way. Here is another Irwin Allen produced movie that was pretty much of a B-movie (B stands for bad in my opinion. When Time Ran Out is filled with bad acting that you would either see from a soap opera or an actual B-movie (as we saw wooden acting Edward Albert & Barbara Carrera). They writing was beyond awful with factual geologic errors within the entire film. An oil rig drilling into the side of a volcano? Lava bombs that explode? A character claiming the victims of the Mt. Pelée eruption suffocated after the explosion sucked oxygen out of the air? All factual geologic errors! Irwin Allen made a deal with Warner Bros. in regards to a bigger budget. He gets a bigger budget...but he CANNOT direct. So he got $20M to produce When Time Ran Out and the visuals in this movie are still disastrous! In fact, everything about this movie was disastrous! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Time should have run out sooner, if you ask me. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member So bad it was good... Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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