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Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Leftbanker ¡Spoilers! So the guy makes a mad dash out of the convenience store running for his life. He runs a few blocks in a very circuitous route. He gets shot, falls, and his friends are in a car to actually see him fall? That is some lazy writing. How does that happen? OK, maybe you think this isn't a big deal but who would write that? Vinnie Jones? Can we please, please never see him in another movie ever again? It's obvious that they had something of a budget to work with so how could it be some unbelievably bad? Wasn't anyone involved paying attention enough to realize that they were making such a load? Making a bad guy completely evil doesn't add to tension; it turns the story into a comic book.I'm actually one of the few reviewers who appreciated the subdued role that Bruce Willis has in the film. His face-to-face with D'Onofrio made no sense at all.The ending was a Chinese Downhill. Stupid with lots of explosions and fighting, and the girl screaming "Jeremey!" at the top of her lungs, and stuff burning, and bad guys going up in flames, and maybe love.Wow, if this is the kind of script that gets made I wouldn't want to see the rejects.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Fire With Fire is one in a long string of recent direct to video flicks that Bruce Wilis seems oddly intent on appearing in. Some are cool (Catch 44), some are halfassed (The Prince) and some are just plain poo (Set Up). This one falls in the first category. It's an overblown and unbelievable little thriller but it has a great cast on it's side, and when you score Vincent Donofrio for your villain role, you'll always at least have some merit. The story is pure B movie: a studly firefighter (Josh Dumahel) ends up seeing something he shouldn't and gets on the wrong side of a vicious neo nazi psychopath (Donofrio) and his crew. Just his luck though, as his foxy girlfriend (Rosario Dawson) happens to be an FBI agent working on a task force headed up by a gruff senior operative (Bruce Willis). Willis has been trying to nail Donofrio and his gang for years, and he finally has a handy little firefighter witness to testify. Donofrio won't stop though, making their lives hell as he shakes their sh*t up right left and center. He's a hell of an actor, especially when playing the baddie (his turns in The Cell, Daredevil, The Salton Sea and Men In Black are legendary), and this loose cannon weirdo white supremacist nut job is one more to add to the canon. Duhamel does his classic laid back pretty boy thing, Dawson is tough and oh so attractive as always, and Willis dials up the grumpy metre for a nice little jaded turn that i actually really enjoyed. Vinnie Jones lends his mug to the role of second in command, 50 Cent shows up (wherever Willis and Deniro go in B movie land, he unnervingly seems to tag along), and watch for more work from Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Julian McMahon, Richard Schiff, Arie Verveen and Kevin Dunn. I like the chaotic formula employed here: a bunch of characters running around, large cast, flashy violent spectacle, flamboyant villain. It almost seems like a 70's genre piece, and I'd love to have seen a hand drawn, retro style poster with a bunch of stuff sprawled together in a mural like those old school flicks used to do. It sure would beat the generic, vanilla design they went with and I feel like the film deserves more. Great stuff.

kingdio There's nothing special about this action B-movie. Despite a good cast, the movie screams of mediocrity. The main reasons are a bad script and Josh Duhamel. He fails to captivate at every turn. Bruce Willis actually does a little work as the grizzled detective, and Vincent D'Onofrio is his reliable self as the ruthless bad guy. It's the story of a fireman (Duhamel) who witnesses a very bad guy (D'Onofrio) kill a convenient store owner and his son. It turns out the bad guy is a gang leader out to take take over drug operations and general evil doings in the hoods of Long Beach. He's an ex-con, a white supremacist, and he has escaped serving jail time before by killing witnesses. So the fireman is taken under the protection in the witness protection program. But when the bad guy finds him and takes aim at him and his new special lady (Dawson), the nice fireman decides to turn the tables. The hunted now becomes the hunter. Typical, good-guy-turned- vigilante revenge scenes follow where the fireman starts taking down bad guys and is a little torn about it, at first. The movie is very by-the- numbers, but watchable if you like these type of direct to DVD type action movies.

LumpyMusic The LOVE angle is not realistic. First off, and I'm sorry for all those who dig the fem actress, she is butt ugly in the movie. Boy meets girl, one time sex, now they're in love enough to move across country with each other? Violate her law enforcement ethics? Commit murder? All based on one hotel night of sex? Not believable.Bruce W has what, a dozen lines in the whole movie? They would have done the movie good to develop his character more but instead, they focused on the boy/girl thing.Action bits weren't too bad - gun shots etc.All in all the acting was about on par with a 70's porno movie, without the porn.Cellphones in the movies always work a heck of a lot better than mine does in real life.