When Time Ran Out, is not a good film, but is it any worse than the 2011 summer releases, The Green Lantern, Cowboys and Aliens, Zookeeper, Transformers 3 Dark Side of the Moon, Cars 2 and The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides?
Well the answer is yes, it appears to be worse then those films. This Irwin Allen production just looks plain cheap and terrible considering the 20 million dollars spent on it. Allen was always a producer that would start strong with a concept for a TV show then invariably use the same stock shots over and over to save money after the series was picked up. As a producer Allen was a real cheapskate.
In the case of When Time Ran Out everything is of a low or poor quality, the volcano model, the optical work in the disaster scenes and in particular the climactic escape across the collapsing bridge over the river of molten lava scene that looks laughably phoney.
I'm guessing the three big name stars Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset and William Holden made very sure they were well paid for this film particularly after reading the script. The extensive on location filming in Hawaii probably didn't hurt. Nobody ever turned their nose up at a free trip to Hawaii.
When Time Ran Out marks the end of Irwin Allen's run as a producer of mainstream Hollywood films it was back to schloky made for TV disaster films for rest of his career.
This film isn't even worth a laugh as a "so bad it's good" film.
144 minutes
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