BroadswordCallinDannyBoy 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

ghostman16 firestorm is a cliffhanger type thriller starring Howie Long as Jesse Graves a heroic fire fighter who is up against a group of escaped convicts led by the Psycotic Randell who has kidnapped a bird watcher played by Suzi Amis and has caused a giant fire that is turning into a firestorm.now Jesse must now save the hostage stop the fire and take care of Randell. firestorm is quite a fun little thriller Howie Long was quite a good hero shame he didn't make anymore action films after this.William Forsythe was absolutely brilliant as the main bad guy Randell William normally plays decent bad guys anyway like in out for justice and stone cold.even Scott Glenn is in it. to end the review firestorm is a well made action thriller a bit clichéd but still cool 7 out of 10.

DragonflyS6 This is one of those films that you can really get a kick out of because it is so bad. It is almost like someone took "Cheesey Movie Making 101." The casting is surprisingly good, the acting itself isn't bad, but script is humorously appalling and the characters are incredibly predictable and shallow. We actually had a very good time predicting characters' next lines with an amusing amount of success. The opening scene is hilarious (small dog included, I kid you not). Speaking as someone who has worked in the wildland fire the movie is completely unrealistic, particularly the beginning and end, the movie has nice symmetry that way. (To name a few errors, you light a backfire to eliminate the fuels-not the oxygen, we do not fly aircraft at night, and, trust me on this one, EVERYONE wears sunglasses.) This is actually quite successful as a satire on action films. Unfortunately for the film makers, I don't think that is what was intended.

Special-K88 Hokey, instantly forgettable action movie which seems to be trying to cash in on moviegoers fascination with disaster flicks. A hardened convict escapes from prison with a group of assorted others and sets out to recover a stash of money with a blazing forest fire as his cover. What begins as the perfect plan quickly goes awry when he's pursued by a resilient and resourceful smoke jumper (Long) determined to thwart him. Another one of those movies that takes a force of nature and drives it into the ground with thin characters, silly dialogue, and routine writing. Not a single fresh or innovative idea in the entire picture, or a single plot twist that you won't be one step ahead of. *