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Firestorm (1998): Dir: Dean Semler / Cast: Howie Long, Suzy Amis, Scott Glenn, William Forsythe, Barry Pepper: Dense project seen dozens of times with all of its dull clichés. Perhaps the title represents the chaos that the heroes will reserve. A bus load of criminals use a firestorm as an opportunity for escape. Howie Long plays a firefighting hero who battles the villains and gets the girl. Predictable outcome sodomized by juvenile action sequences. One idiot decides to use his obsession with wrestling as a counter to Long. The criminals themselves are quite gullible since the leader kills two or three with stupid excuses to match. Director Dean Semler does his best but even the production is nothing spectacular. They could have shot the same thing with a camp fire and action figures. Long is there to appear big and beat up criminals and looking bad doing so. Scott Glenn is wasted in a cardboard role. Suzy Amis plays the dimwit damsel who is caught not once, but twice because she is an airhead. William Forsythe is laughable as the villain who makes nasty remarks but ultimately it is obvious that Long will kick his ass up over his head. He also makes several successful attempts to kill off anyone else who was suppose to be in on his stupid evil plan. One of the most uninteresting films ever made and should be tossed in a campfire and roast marshmallows over its firestorm. Score: 2 / 10

I've seen worse and of course I've seen better. I enjoyed Backdraft, and I figured this was just Backdraft in the woods. It was just what I expected, a cheesy action movie, with "witty" lines and a totally off the wall villain. William Forsythe is one of my favorite "villain" actors, and he does not disappoint. There's something about him that's really creepy. Favorite line? "Heeeeeeeeeeeeey smokejumpah! You still alive?" If you're looking for a B movie that has pretty good action scenes and bad dialogue, this is the one for you. The fire scenes were actually quite good too. Great improbable stunts too.Too bad Howie didn't take his shirt off, I would have given it another star.

A cunning criminal sets a fire to cover his escape from prison. He takes a hostage and promises fellow cohorts a share of a large stash that he hid sometime ago. It is up to smokejumper Jesse Graves to save the hostage and stop the villain.The premise is unbelievably hokey, but it still manages to fall short of the plots hokeyness. The movie is just some loosely connected action scenes that are made with unimpressive staging and mediocre special effects. From the first super cheesy scene the acting is virtually non-existent, except for William Forysthe who manages to entertain with his super-evil and calculating villain persona. But still, he can't make something out of nothing.Nothing is an apt way to put it since this is really a film about just that. There is little mention of plot, little mention of the smokejumpers' techniques, little mention of the science of fire, but there is lots of fire. LOTS AND LOTS OF FIRE. But fire is just fire. It can't make a movie by itself.Re-watch Twister for a relatively plot-less disaster/action movie done right. Or if fire is your thing Backdraft or Ladder 49 will do. Just avoid this. --- 2/10Rated R for violence

!!!! SPOILERS !!!!I couldn`t help noticing that this film was done in a dumb , spectacular Jerry Bruckheimer way . The two heroes save a little girl by throwing a blanket over themselves ! What`s wrong with that ? Nothing , except that the firestorm would have suffocated the trio by using up all the surrounding oxygen . The makers could have been forgiven for including this factual error by doing it the once , but screw up by drawing attention to it a second time during the climax where the hero correctly states the firestorm will use up all the oxygen outside the boat . So much for internal continuity .Maybe I shouldn`t be so harsh because FIRESTORM isn`t a film that`s supposed to make you think . It`s one of those dumb Summer blockbusters that concentrates on spectacle and FX rather than logic , fact or characterisation and I`m slightly surprised that it didn`t do better since I never knew it existed untill I saw it on TV last night . It`s slightly similar to being a cross between TWISTER and CLIFFHANGER and is fairly enjoyable in a dumb blockbuster way , but I would have enjoyed it more if the criminals on the bus got fried . That`s the problem with these type of films - The hero saves everyone