I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Absolutely Brilliant!

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Ron Howard's Backdraft is all you could want in a big budget Hollywood picture, and more in the sense that it combines a handful of genres for one big opus that's bursting at it's seams with family drama, romance, mystery, psychological thrills (of the deliciously heavy handed variety) and no shortage of shit blowing up. As far as firefighter films go, this is probably where the buck stops as far as I'm concerned. Stuff like Ladder 49 came and went without much lasting impression as I'm sure the Josh Brolin one from this year will too, but Backdraft man, it's an action classic that's endured and aged remarkably well over the years. It opens with a bang as a Chicago team thunders into action set to a score by Hans Zimmer that could wake the dead. This intro serves as a showcase moment for what's to come, as we meet two brothers who are fiercely competitive, each scarred by there fireman father's (Kurt Russell) untimely demise. The older (also Russell) is a headstrong bull with self destructive tendencies, while the younger (William Baldwin) does his best to live up to the family name by struggling through the academy. That's the framework for a story that's brimming with characters and subplots, as any Hollywood epic should be. Robert Deniro steals the show as a gruff, old school arson investigator who's seen a few deadly fires in his time, and keeps a close watch on psychopath firebug Donald Sutherland, who himself gives a thoroughly chilling performance. Scott Glenn is rough 'n tough as veteran fireman Axe, Jennifer Jason Leigh is Baldwin's flame in a role that's uncharacteristically safe for the daring actress, while Rebecca De Mornay is terrific as Russell's ex-wife. Ohh and J.T. Walsh steals every scene as a dubious politician. What a cast. The film is big, bold and noisy, with a visual and auditory aesthetic that will give any home theatre system a pounding. Zimmer's score is seriously awesome, a grandiose, emotional, booming concoction that stands as both one of his best and most underrated. This is one of the old fashioned, pure bangers of unbridled cinematic escapism that can't be beat, replicated or watched too many times.

Firefighting brothers Stephen McCaffrey (Kurt Russell) and Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin) and the rest of their Chicago fire department find themselves in a battle of wits with an arsonist who is manufacturing explosions which create a 'Backdraft' which kills anyone in its path. Fire investigator Donald Rimgate (Robert DeNiro) is the man responsible for tracking the arsonist down.On paper this should have worked; it has talented actors like Kurt Russell, Robert DeNiro and Donald Sutherland on board and an interesting premise which to me seemed to suggest a mix of social commentary, action and cat and mouse antics. To say that this film did not live up to my expectations would be a massive understatement because it didn't even come close....For a start, Ron Howard suffocates the film with all kinds of different themes; strained relations between brothers, strained relations between spouses/girlfriends, firefighting, investigating. Usually I like films with a wide variety of themes as invariably they have depth, complexity and give the mind something to chew on, but here Howard introduces these themes but doesn't expand upon any of them. The two firefighting brothers don't get on- why exactly? The younger brother disappeared for a number of years - where did he go and why did he disappear? The lack of clarity makes it very hard to care about or form any understanding of the brothers (them both being so unlikeable doesn't help either neither did their continuous squabbling). The melodrama between the brothers and their partners was also tiresome and uninteresting and took up far too much of the running time.Even if we focus our attention on the action then Howard failed to really engage me in what should have been an open goal; the action scenes are good at first, but they become repetitive and I was never enthralled or interested at any point during the film. The investigative side of the film (which should have been the real focus) is very choppy and Howard failed to make it interesting or engage me in that aspect of the story.The acting is a bit of a mixed bag; Kurt Russell has his usual cocksure swagger about him, but he does at least make the film fun. William Baldwin is bland and De Niro is fairly low-key (aside from one scene where he gets to flex his acting chops). Donald Sutherland is convincing as a crazy guy, but he felt more like an afterthought than anything else.However you look at Backdraft it is a poor film which has too much going on for its own good. I appreciate what firefighters do and think they are very brave so I do feel a bit bad bashing this film, but I was never given a reason to care at any point in this film and if I'm totally honest I found it pretty boring.

I was going in, thinking it would be a awesome film, but I got burn. It's no way realistic. I know it's Hollywood so there going to take some liberties, but this movie has a ridiculous portrayal of firefighters. These firefighters are so terribly trained that they don't even know how to don their gear correctly. When Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey (Kurt Russell) goes into the 2 story building, to rescue the child from a fire, he has his coat wide open and no SCBA equipment. The smoke would have killed him in a matter of seconds as his lungs would be seared by the heat. If anybody was to run into a fire filled room with their coat undone they'd be cooked like a goose! Most of the characters would have died within the first 30 seconds of the film from having seared lungs, smoke inhalation, or extreme burns. I like how the fire can explode right in their face, and they don't end up getting first or second degree burns. The amount of smoke that was in the fires if real life would have been blinding, not clear. By the way, what type of firefighters smoke cigarettes while cleaning up a burned out building after breathing in tons of smoke? I would be afraid to light up in a building that might have gases in it because it might start a fire, again.As for the title of the film, 'Backdraft'. It's very incredibly rare behavior of fire. Even if you were the evil genius arsonist setting these backdraft, you would need to spend days creating just the right environment where a back-draft can occur. It's a easy task. Honestly the idea that an arsonist is creating backdrafts to kill certain individuals is preposterous to begin with. I'm not a firefighter and I know that it would be nearly impossible to do that, and it would certainly be impossible to do it to the extent that the arsonist does here. The movie plot is suppose to just that. Firefighters trying to catch the arsonist, but screenwriter Gregory Widen shovels one subplot on top of another, and it becomes too much. There is the sub-plot about two brothers, Stephen McCaffrey and Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin) having a love and hate relationship, with Brian living under the shadow of his heroic brother, and father. The movie is very clichés with the firefighter heroics such in the case it becomes unrealistic. The first shot of Kurt Russell's Stephen is him walking out a burning building in a manly pose. This is follow up with a heroic slow moment of him rescuing a kid. It's so cheesy. Even the opening scene is over the top, with the firefighters taking a child with them to fight fires. Who is going to babysit the kid while you are fighting fires? Is taking a child to a fire zone kinda dangerous? Director Ron Howard seeks to wring tears from the audience by having a fireman's helmet incredibly bounce out of a second story window in front of the kid and everybody slow motion moves around is just poetic stupid. The worst is the silly montage of Brian training under his brother with dripping his head in water as if a male model. Another subplot of the film is Stephen trying to get back with his estranged wife, Helen McCaffrey (Rebecca De Mornay) which doesn't play no factor into the main plot. No, honestly, it's doesn't play into anything. It's just waste screen time, that could have better been focus on finding the arsonists. The best scenes in the film are that of Brian teaming up with Donald "Shadow" Rimgale (Robert de Niro) a dedicated arson investigator looking for the backdraft killer. They even get help from Arsonist 'Silent of the Lambs' what a be Hannibal Lector, Ronald Bartel (Donald Sutherland). Donald Sutherland is pretty creepy in his role. "A fire eats and breathes and hates." He quotes. Sorry, but fires don't hate; only people hate, Ronald. Firs is not a living entity, film. Robert de Niro is great in his role, and get closer to closer to finding the murderer. Too bad, Brian is rarely any help. Brian barely does anything in the film for the main character, but gets in the way of better supporting characters. Rather than finding the killer, he is having sex with Jennifer Vaitkus (Jennifer Jason Leigh) Brian's ex-girlfriend and works for the city alderman who trying to cut back the fireman department budget. Her loyalties are torn between her job and Brian. I think making love on top of a speeding fire truck will get you fired in real life.William Baldwin is no Alec. His performance was horrible. The way he played puppy dog in an attempt to convey depression and self-pity, it was eye-rolling bad. Baldwin's role was originally written for Tom Cruise, who would have given the movie some much-needed star power. He is disappointing. The film tries way too hard to be cool instead of realistic, which is a shame considering that a film about firefighters and arson could have been wholly intriguing while remaining believable, had it been attempted properly. Instead, this film feels so fake with the over the top action sequences. The factory argument in particular is awful. Rather than putting out the fire, they waste their time arguing while the building is burning around him. Don't get me wrong, the action scenes are impressive, and the special effects are still rather extraordinary, but it's scenes like that, that makes me cringe. Han Zimmer's score is amazing in my opinion. The best thing to come out of this movie is Backdraft fire special effects show at Unversial Studios Hollywood, and that's not saying much. It closed down in 2010 after 19 years worth of shows. Overall: watch it if bored, but don't think too much into it. It's just a pointless popcorn flick

***SPOILERS*** Barn burner of a movie that generated an astounding 172 million dollars in ticket sales at home ,the USA, and abroad "Backdraft" is by far the most successful, beating "The Towering Inferno" record by over 100 million dollars in earnings, fire fighting film in motion picture history. The movie centers around two firemen brother Stephen & Brain McCaffrey,Kurt Russell & William Baldwin who work out of Chicago's Chinatown elite 17th Hook & Ladder Engine Company who are at odds with each other. It's Stephen who feels that his kid brother Brian isn't up to task of being a top grade firefighter and tries to persuade him to quit the job and do something far less dangerous. I was the death of his father fire Captain Dennis McCaffery, also played by Kurt Russell, that Brain witnessed back in 1971 when he was 12 that not only left deep emotional scares on him but got him to want to be a fire fighter himself like his dad even if it ended up killing him. A number of suspicious fires or back-drafts break out in Chicago where the victims are high placed contributers and contributers to Chicago's Alderman Martin Swayzak,J,T Walsh, champaign for city mayor. It's fire & arson Inspector Donald "Shadow" Rimgale,Robert De Niro, who smells a rat in all this and is sure the fires were deliberately started to kill only those, the city contractors, that they targeted and no one else. With Brian getting a job as Rimgale assistant the two uncover a plot to kill off those who together with Alderman Swayzak are scheming to close down a number of fire stations and give them over to top real estate interests in Chicago. This would not only cause the remaining fire stations to get overworked but also end up costing the lives of firefighter as well as the people that their risking their lives to rescue!Running up against a number of stone walls both Fire Inspector Rimgale & his partner Stephen McCaffery get assisted by master arsonist who's serving a life sentence for a slew of arson related murders, which included Captain Dennis McCaffery, Ronald "Firebug" Bartel, Donald Sutherland. It's Bartel who's an old hand at these kinds of things, arson fires, who uncovers just how those mysterious back drafts were started and what chemicals were used to both start them and cause the fires to burn themselves out, after killing those it intended to roast, before causing any more deaths or damage! And worst of all as things soon turn out it's non other then the late Captain Dennis McCaffrey's son fire Lt. Stephen McCaffery who's unknowingly supplying the mysterious arsonist with the deadly chemical compounds to do it.**SPOILERS** "Baby Light my Fire" final with both Lt. Stephen McCaffery and kid brother Brian getting caught up in a major chemical fire that not only goes completely out of control but ends up with Stephen having it out with the person who's involved in the deadly series of arson fires that targeted prominent Chicago businessmen. Explosive ending much like the ending in the 1949 film "White Heat" as the entire chemical plant goes up in flames with only Brian surviving and together with Inspector Rimgale keeping the truth, of who was the arsonist, from the public. It was a truth far too hard and painful to take and by keeping it from seeing the light of day it ended up finishing what the mysterious and now deceased arsonist started. Preventing Alderman Swayzak from not only becoming Chicao's next mayor but putting him behind bars, for extortion and receiving illegal payoffs, as well!P.S Kurt Russell and T,J Walsh were so good together in the film that they were reunited six years later in the kidnap desert thriller "Breakdown".