Strong and Moving!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Tyler Dravon (Aleks Paunovic) is a linebacker who is also a sociopath in a constant steroid rage who may or may not play for the Raiders. While in the Cedar Hills jail a fire breaks out and genetically alters him so he is a fire starter. Only two people on the planet can stop him . Federal agent Lee Cooper ( Ian Somerhaler) teams up with fire investigator Ava (Lexa Poig) as they have dinner at the finest gourmet dining in all of Cedar Hills, a restaurant that can also boast its own bowling alley.Made for TV type film. Badly scripted to the point it becomes tiresome to watch.

That is not to say it was a great movie, but compared to the usual schlock SyFy are capable of and have a notorious reputation for I was surprised. Of course there are some things that don't work, such as the cheap special effects, clichéd characters that are no different from the typical characters you find in the SyFy disaster and creature movies and the script has its cheesy moments. Like with all SyFy movies and most movies in general, there are about nine or ten noticeable(compared to the usual fifty plus) continuity errors like one minute the handcuffs are behind his back, next they're in front, but they are not as numerous as before or since. However, the photography and editing rather than choppy are quite good. The story is also interesting, somewhat chaotic, but it is a departure from the fantasy/adventure, disaster movie and giant creature movie genre, and it doesn't make the mistake of being dull either like other SyFy movies have. The music I found great, haunting and helping to enhance what is going on, usually it is overbearing or goes at sluggish tempos that it feels like it's slowing the film down. There is some interesting science, not all of it is plausible, but unlike movies like Miami Magma you sort of buy it. And the acting was better than I expected, Lexia Doing is especially convincing in her role. So all in all, not great but I did enjoy it. 6/10 Bethany Cox

While this production bears most of the signature elements of a SciFi Channel original - miserable writing, terrible acting, lazy directing, and bargain-basement CGI - it's a stunning departure for the network. It involves neither giant animals eating humans, nor natural disasters. And when SciFi thinks outside the Jaws / Earthquake meta-boxes, you can count on somewhat different (if not new) cinematic awkwardness. It's like a they're installing new hamster wheel for their cable cage of tedium.I just wish the writers would leave their bimbo-encrusted poolside chaise lounges long enough to do some actual field research. The characters are never drawn from recognizable reality, and the flat technical facts they spew in lieu of dialog sound like Wikipedia searches.

I didn't have high hopes for FIREBALL since it's on the Sci-Fi Channel , a station best known for broadcasting material involving the worst CGI to have featured outside a Stephen Sommer film . But still anything would be better than the no budget sword and sorcery stuff they've transmitted recently The synopsis reads like like an episode of THE X-FILES in " Bitter sociopath finds that he has the ability to cause people and objects to burst in to flame " and early episodes of THE X-FILES such as Fire and Soft Light do have similar plots . Unfortunately if you compare these episodes with FIREBALL you'll find it sadly lacking That's not to say it's a bad SF TVM because it's certainly better than a great number of stuff the station shows . It's just it goes out of its way to be inoffensive . At least with THE X-FILES it didn't pull any punches in giving the audience sleepless nights . For example the villain gets revenge on someone who betrayed him and burns him to death off screen . Likewise a scene where the villain walks in to a nuclear power station he dispatches the guards on the gate off screen and you do become irritated by the TVM's obvious agenda of telling a thrilling story without upsetting the audience