Film Review – Skyfire

Simon West is the latest filmmaker to realize his career isn’t working out so well in Hollywood (his recent output includes duds such as “Stratton,” “Gun Shy,” and “Wild Card”), making a move to China to help boost his employability, bringing some western technique to eastern audiences (Renny Harlin made a similar relocation a few years ago). West’s debut endeavor for China is “Skyfire,” which pits scientists and businesspeople against a raging island volcano, revisiting a natural disaster scenario that overwhelmed multiplexes a few decades ago with the release of “Dante’s Peak” and “Volcano.” West isn’t one to put his stamp on anything, and he goes through the motions on “Skyfire,” which hopes to dazzle audiences with grand spectacle and massive amounts of property damage, but offers little else worth paying attention to. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com