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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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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.
The spectacular fire sequences, which must have been hellish to film, are powerfully enveloping on screen, thanks especially to the eerie effect of the title.
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The three separate elements don't quite gel, but the overall experience is still a fine bit of moviemaking.
Typical over-produced, lowest-common-denominator Ron Howard film
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Nice action movie. Great effects.
Great effects, the fire is a living, breathing entity.
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A patchwork concoction of other (better) movies, but the gung-ho ensemble keeps it all afloat.
Director Howard is so mesmerized by the flames, he squirts formulaic lighter fluid over everything.
Top CriticBackdraft is sure to do for fire what The Poseidon Adventure did for water.
Top Critic[The scenes involving fire] are so good they make me recommend the movie anyway, despite its brain-damaged screenplay.
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