Ablaze
Ablaze
R | 16 July 2002 (USA)
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The owner of a gigantic oil refinery decides to burn the place down for insurance purposes, only to create a giant fireball that endangers the lives of a small town.

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Solemplex

To me, this movie is perfection.

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Evengyny

Thanks for the memories!

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Kailansorac

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

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ThrillMessage

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

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Lase

Firstly, it stars Tom Arnold which should make anyone suspicious, a god-awful actor at the best of times. Saying that he's not all that much worse than anything else I've been unfortunate enough to see him in, but looks at the camera inadvertently almost more times than he appears.It's funny because I actually fell asleep after around 5 minutes but then woke up another few minutes later and was left wondering "have I been asleep for over two hours? The film I fell asleep to had Ice T in it, where's he gone?".The writing is monumentally terrible. All the simplistic dialogue you'd expect from an abomination with a plot summary similar to this one. I can't help but try and imagine the process involved when this band of hapless Hollywood types scratched around for ideas and funding. If anyone amongst this tribe ever worked again God only knows how. Hollywood films are poor more often than not and this is like 'Hollywood Culture' wrapped up in one epic masterpiece of wasted time.I'm a film collector, and I don't know who John Bradly (top billing) is... I still don't.In terms of score, it's everything a Hollywood Blockbuster normally is, miserably monotonous horns throughout and "awwww" sorry strings for the mooshy bits at hospital bedsides and shots of heart monitors. Absolutely awful.What should amaze the uninitiated, is that I saw this film on television. With the wealth of spectacular film making across the world, someone, somewhere actually made the decision to air this over it all. I understand that it's part of the dumbing down process but it's so tiring that the library of television stations is consistently stocked with plastic, ready-made microwavable mind-fluff in favour of art. The mind of the 10 year old in the body of an adult is nurtured heavily, always.Possibly, the worst film I've ever seen.If I was to be positive, I'd say that this film needs 30 years to become a classic, but only because it will become a great social document to help understand what disgusting times the late 20th and early 21st centuries were to live in.

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frenky_dee

ablaze is absolutely the wort movie i've seen in years. it is so bad that it comes close to being a parody. but parodies were meant to be absurd, the worst thing about ablaze is that it actually tries to be a serious action movie. i wonder whether the director/producer hung himself after seeing the end result. he should be banned from any film studio for the rest of his life!there is totally nothing positive to mention about this movie: camera-work is a drama. action scenes are totally absurd. the acting is below every possible standard, the average commercials actors, selling loans, is doing a better job than these people. the movie is loaded with bloopers, all over the place.this movie trying to be serious is an absolute insult to the viewer's intelligence, even if the viewer is a complete moron.watching this movie is an absolute waste of time, you could just as well stick your head into the sand for an hour and a half!

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cwinf5

I have been a firefighter for over 21 years. When I first saw this movie I was outraged! How in the heck could anyone have made such a horrible piece of garbage? Yikes! Then I saw it again, and realized that I had watched history being made. Out of all the horribly made, horribly acted, horribly edited B-movies ever made, this is the BEST WORST MOVIE EVER MADE! I loved this so much, I actually bought it. It is great fun to see where all the mistakes are, like the British fire trucks responding to the American fire (it's even in the trailer!). I saw Striking Distance the other day, and fell out of my chair when I saw the chase scene from that. OH MY GAWD. I even showed this movie to my firefighter friends, and they agree with me that this is THE BEST WORST MOVIE EVER MADE.

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DPonti

Not only did they lift scenes from City on Fire but the opening chase sequence was lifted from the Bruce Willis movie Striking Distance!This movie was probably the worst movie I have seen.This movie belongs in the bargain bin at Wal Mart, ummm... better yet it belongs in the trash.

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