Fire with Fire
August. 31,2012 RA fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against—after being held up at a local convenience store—threatens him.
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You won't be disappointed!
Thanks for the memories!
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against, after being held up at a local convenience store, threatens him. Fire with Fire is another low point at Bruce Willis career but also a poor excuse of a movie as a whole since even with a terrific and talented cast like that the movie still remains a waste of time. 50 Cent has a small cameo that wasn't needed, Josh Duhamel throwing up while trying to interrogate someone and D'Onorfio as a Nazi crime boss that doesn't sell good at all. Overall stick with a better Willis movie!!!
¡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.
I believe never to let facts ruin a good story, but if you are trying to sell horsesh*t as roses, at least have the decency to polish those turds to a high sheen. Everybody looks ashamed to be associated with this bomb and they only completed the project to claim their paychecks. So what does this stinker consist of? It starts with a fire where the fireman gets rewarded with a box of very expensive booze (as if anybody would hand it out after their home or place of business burned down), our hero & friends end their shift & decide to drink the booze, our hero gets trapped in a convenience store where the very predictable evil white guy kills the very predictable victims from a minority group, our hero escapes and only gets shot in the arm, he identifies the villain, decides to testify against him and enters witness protection. Hero decides to take the fight to villain, get seven shades of sh*t beaten out of him every few minutes (without any side effects). Hero kills villain. Pop in some cheesy lines, bad acting and profanity for the sake of profanity and you get the whole movie on a cheese platter, albeit a moldy cheese platter. Watch at your own peril. Rather read a book, any book, the plot and suspense of Little Red Hiding Hood is better. The 1 star is for Bruce Willis, just because my mom worships the man.
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.