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As a child Brian McCafferty watched his firefighter father die. Years later he joins his brother, Steven in the force by becoming a rookie firefighter. There is a history of conflict between the two brothers that is heated up by working together. With this background, a series of suspicious fires are set, each made to kill a specific person. After becoming frightened at a fire, Brian pulls strings to get into an investigative office and finds that he is now not putting out the arsonist's fires, but trying to track him down.
Brian McCaffrey's father's a fireman and he was there, as a child, when his father died. When he grew he tried to be a fireman but quit and left town and for a few years tried other jobs. He would eventually return and try to be fireman again. However, he finds himself working under his brother Stephen whom he doesn't exactly have a good relationship with. When Brian gets his picture in the paper and is lauded as a hero when in fact it was a mistake, a politician offers him a job working under the department's arson investigator, Donald Rimgale. It seems that Ringale is working some unusual fires wherein someone is killed. Brian initially refuses but when he has too many confrontations with Stephen, he takes the job. And he gets a lesson on what it means to be a fireman.
We have an all star cast here,but stealing the show from all of them is something whose name you are not going to see in the credits.I am talking about,of course,fire.I like this film for it's amazing special effects and for the multiple story lines placed around them.We have a set of brothers whose father was a firefighter tragically killed in the line of duty.One of those brothers has become a die hard firefighter himself,taking on all fires with a vengeance almost as if every one he fights is the one that killed his father.The other,having witnessed their father's death,is a little more hesitant and not even sure he wants to fight fires at all.There is also the usual romantic storyline thrown in,but the interesting thing about this film is the fact that it's a whodunit with a unique twist.We have a killer who does not go the usual route with guns or knives.He uses,you guessed it,fire.Fires that take out their intended victims quickly in an explosive rage,then quickly disappear.This film is well done,and is worthy of your time.
The movie starts in Chicago 1971 when Brian McCaffrey witnesses his fire fighter father&#39;s death on the job. 20 years later, Brian (William Baldwin) returns home to be a probie working under his brother Stephen (Kurt Russell). The brothers don&#39;t get along. Stephen has moved out on his wife Helen (Rebecca De Mornay). Jennifer Vaitkus (Jennifer Jason Leigh) knows Brian from the past and is now working for ambitious alderman Swayzak (J.T. Walsh). There&#39;s an arsonist loose in the city and arson investigator Rimgale (Robert De Niro) is on the case. On his first fire, Brian rescues a mannequin but is mistaken with a heroic rescue. Stephen is knocking heads with Swayzak over cutbacks. Swayzak offers Brian a job to work with Rimgale.<br/><br/>Director Ron Howard is showing that he has technical skills. The fires actually look beautiful. The action looks great. There are good stunts. There are great actors around. The action scenes are incredible. However there is a little too much unnecessary family melodrama. Then there is the criminal arson case and political intrigue. This is a case of less is more. It doesn&#39;t need all the complications. Kurt Russell is great but William Baldwin slinks around without much charisma. De Niro is doing his thing. Generally this is an over-written movie with some great fire action. The crime investigation is fine but it feels like an extension of the firefighting movie. This movie is just overloaded.
Gregory Widen's script is like a Mad parody played straight, full of "Scenes We Wouldn't Like to See."
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