It's fast, simple-minded action with a lot of corny dialogue, preposterous circumstance and good looking people.
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01/01/00
Firestorm (1998)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:3
Rotten:22
Average Rating:3.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Sinister convicts revolt when their prison work detail is dispatched to battle a roaring wildfire. But their carefully conceived escape plan doesn't account for skilled "smoke jumper" Jesse Graves,... [More]
Starring: Howie Long, Scott Glenn, William Forsythe, Suzy Amis
Director: Dean Semler
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Reviews for Firestorm
Put it this way: Long is Olivier compared to the last ex-pro football player to try his hand at the silver screen, Brian Bosworth.
01/01/00
In movies, as in life, you take your warmth where you can find it, but this particular wienie roast is bound to leave you cold.
04/12/02
Top CriticNo one should mistake Firestorm for a "quality" motion picture. It's not, and it wasn't designed to be.
01/27/05
Well, it coulda been a LOT worse.
01/01/00
...boasts an old-fashioned sensibility that benefits from several surprisingly thrilling set pieces...
10/16/08
When the film isn't using some stock footage of actual forest fires, the simulated ones look hokey.
01/01/00
It is just a run-of-the-mill action movie.
01/01/01
This film isn't apt to light your fire and it's doubtful it will ignite much action at the box-office.
01/01/00
The action movie for which the term 'by the numbers' might have been coined.
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