An unexpected masterpiece

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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

The acting is fairly good, and overall it's a fairly well-done piece of work but some scenes just drag on forever that takes out the excitement that could have been.With too much oversentimental music and some scenes that simply should have been cut down or cut out entirely and others that should never have been in slow-motion.Most of the fires are visibly CGI'd but they still look pretty neat so I didn't mind too much.Would have worked if it was a fast-paced 85 minute movie, but at the length it is 107 it simply gets too boring at times to truly recommend.I mean I wouldn't advice you not to watch it on TV or anything, it does have a couple really well orchestrated action-scenes after all and it's a decent enough script, albeit simple and typical.

At first I thought I would not love this movie. I thought I might be just wasting my time. Since I had no choice but to watch this, so i gave it a try. at the start i was kinda interested. the job of firemen is not that easy and how they suffered and put in danger their lives to save people. This is a kind of movie that deserves to be watched. Really. Almost all genre are there.. There's suspense, thriller, drama and even comedy. Acting was good and so the production is believable. really. go watch this movie and enjoy as i did. ignore those negative comments about this movie because i watched it and i liked it, i recommended it to a friend and he liked it as well...

"Out of Inferno" turned out to be somewhat similar, if not a little bit better than "Backdraft". Why? Well, this was pure action and thrills, whereas "Backdraft" was weighed down by drama and a somewhat laughable story.Imagine a towering commercial building set ablaze with nowhere to run, whilst fire is consuming the lower levels, but also spreading on the levels above you. Then you have "Out of Inferno".The movie was quick to pick up pace and keep going at that pace, not really becoming dull or boring at any point.However, one thing did puzzle me, since this was a Hong Kong movie, why was it shot on location in Thailand and China? It would have made more sense had it been filmed on location in Hong Kong, also by bringing more familiarity to us who are familiar with the places in Hong Kong (as I have lived there), but instead they opted to shoot in two different non-related places. That was just stupid.That being said, then the performances in "Out of Inferno" was quite good, and there were some pretty big names to the cast list, some Hong Kong heavyweighters, if you will. Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo and Angelica Lee performed quite nicely together in this movie.However, for a Pang brothers movie, then "Out of Inferno" wasn't quite up to their usual standards. For some reason, perhaps it is just my own personal opinion, then they make horror and thrillers better than they make action movies.The name of the movie was a little bit ridiculous, but hey, that is just a matter of personal preference, of course."Out of Inferno" is well worth a watch if you enjoy Asian cinema.

One of the worst movies i have ever seen. Pointles plot - i just don't have words to describe this piece of crap. Fire fighters are running around like headless chickens. And what the hell? Why firefighter had to drop lift to them? I laughed when those guys put rope around their own neck! Nice job! I don't understand - that building claimed to be one of the best secured against fire. Then little accident happened. There were no fire extinguishers around. There were almost none fire sprinklers around there. Okey.. There were 1 or 2 but those stopped working when water pump died. I guess that this was made on China too. Okey- pointless movie. So much drama out of nothing and boring script.