YMMV / When Time Ran Out...

• Harsher in Hindsight: This movie about a deadly volcanic eruption where numerous people die came out on March 28th, 1980. Not even two months later on May 18th, Mount St. Helens erupted in the state of Washington in the biggest explosion ever seen in the history of the United States, killing 57 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. Even more so, this movie actually came out only a couple weeks after Mount St. Helens started showing volcanic activity.
• Narm: Most of the movie is deliriously over-the-top, cheesy, and fake-looking, to the point where even the movie's video release trailer made fun of it. When NBC aired it in 1989 (under the title of Earth's Final Fury), their promos took a similar tone.
• Padding: The infamous bridge sequence, which has been called the worst sequence in a disaster movie ever because it consists of people very slowly crossing a bridge for over twenty minutes. Granted, there's lots of lava explosions, wood falling down, and Pat Morita's hilarious death, but it's still twenty minutes of people crossing a bridge.
• Retroactive Recognition: Who is that playing Tony's cockfighting rival? Why it's Mr. Miyagi!

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