While the film's poster promises some kind of supernatural biblical tale, the reality is that it is yet another Asylum disaster narrative focusing on a super volcano in Brazil that also sets off all manner of storms, lightning strikes, earthquakes and even locust swarms. As usual, the disasters (courtesy of stock footage) are introduced from the outset at breakneck speed and a trio of scientists, protected by a squad of US peacekeeping soldiers, must stop the super volcano, and its associated geo-thermal larks, before it destroys the whole planet in an orgy of ropey CGI. Of course, they are successful and the dire natural threat to the entire world is easily taken care of courtesy of one helicopter with some explosives on board crashing into a lake. I can only assume that Asylum films exert some form of mesmerism as I have no idea why I keep watching these farces. They never reach the heights of so-bad-they-are-good levels, just bad (although this one has some very strange voice dubbing at times and one of the scientists seems to find the whole disaster-filled venture to be quite a jolly wheeze as she is always smiling), but they seem to possess some siren quality in their wretchedness as I keep watching them (although Age of Ice almost finished me). However, this film does weirdly add madness-inducing fungus to the mix, so there is at least some variation to the scenes of storms and urban looting (and which also gives rise to an hallucinatory vision of said 4 Horsemen), all avidly watched by General Norris (played by Dominque Swain) on a series of TV screens in the Command Centre (that are able to show various global disaster scenes in remarkable clarity and numerous close-ups), but The Last of Us it most certainly is not.
Review of 4 Horsemen: Apocalypse
