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01/07/03
Backdraft (1991)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:26
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Two feuding brothers carry on a heroic family tradition in the Chicago Fire Department. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled and lives are shattered as the brothers fight to resolve... [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Ron Howard
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04/20/07
The film exploits Chicago's terrain of ethnic neighborhoods, political turf, and glorious modern architecture, but it has trouble when it comes in close to the personal level.
02/05/08
Howard delivers exactly the kind of thoroughly entertaining commercial enterprise you might expect, only this one comes chock-full of breathtaking pyrotechnics allowing the ridiculous posturing of the two leads to take a back seat.
05/24/03
Visually speaking, the film does pretty well with fire-as-spectacle, less well with everything else (Howard tends to trot out fuzzy-toned Spielbergian backlighting on any pretext).
02/05/08
Top Critic[The scenes involving fire] are so good they make me recommend the movie anyway, despite its brain-damaged screenplay.
01/01/00
Top CriticNice action movie. Great effects.
08/18/02
Backdraft may not be a very good movie, but it sure is great entertainment.
01/16/09
A patchwork concoction of other (better) movies, but the gung-ho ensemble keeps it all afloat.
07/25/02
An extremely old-fashioned tale about heroic firefighters (rival siblings...) with some good special effects, this is a typical Ron Howard picture in its middlebrow sensibility and sentimentality.
02/24/07
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09/12/05
Backdraft has some of the raw filmmaking excitement that has been missing from Howard's recent work.
02/05/08
Top CriticNo review available.
03/18/04
simultaneously overblown and threadbare
09/27/06
Great effects, the fire is a living, breathing entity.
08/15/02
Exciting firefighter adventures with all-star cast.
01/02/05
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09/23/02
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07/02/04
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01/20/06
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