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The writers, Michael (The Player) Tolkin and Bruce Joel (Ghost) Rubin are award winners. Why have they churned out a run-of-the-mildew script that makes Volcano read like a tight human interest item?

Teen shockers are growing up. This is an excellent example of the cruel step-parents scenario, which, in the past, would have degenerated into mad-axe behaviour.

Boll mistakes unexplained action for plot and hammy dialogue for exposition.

Has a dark, post-Apocalyptic feel to it, with a vibrant artistic life.

Teenyboppers will think it cool, twentysomethings will throw up.

Johnny Depp has rarely been better.

On one level, it is taut, exciting and highly effective. On another level, it is absurd because the man in the truck is much too smart.

As a rites-of-passage, it suffers too wide a time frame.

This remake is so clearly aimed at US audiences, it almost constitutes an international incident.