Firestarter
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
- Released: 2022-05-12
- Runtime: 94 minutes
- Genre: Fantasy, Thrillers
- Stars: Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Greyeyes, Gloria Reuben, John Beasley, Tina Jung, Hannan Younis, Gavin MacIver-Wright, Jeremy Ferdman, Jamillah Ross, Morrissa Nicole, Sheila Boyd, Darrin Maharaj, Danny Waugh, Lanette Ware, Hunter Smalley, Isaac Murray, Nicholas Vilord, Vas Saranga, Shane Marriott, Moses Nyarko, Claire Armstrong
- Director: Keith Thomas
Comments
- milodorn - 20 May 2024
Unfinished ideas
The movie felt very confusing and unfinished. It tried to deliver but the result was messy at best. It was not scary, it was just weird with fire. I was let down since I expected a solid story. All I got was a strange feeling and no rational conclusion. I still struggle to understand the message if there was even one. To sum it up, people feel strange, these have some powers, but it is just the same old, with fire. I really expected a lot more. Think of it as if a little girl was angry and scream it all out, except this time she makes things burn around here instead of just being plain annoying. Parents did not much help too. They died and she screamed it all out. With fire. - darkalo84 - 9 January 2024
I just hoped for the Agency to terminate the cat-murdering brat...
Not a good omen I bursted off laughing twice at the beginning of this... should I say horror-sci-fi movie? Especially when it was obviously notthe intention of the filmmakers.
First, the hilarious scene with the doll suddenly catching fire while on Zach Efron's arms (priceless expression of surprise on Zach's face). And next, I laughed out again when the little gitlrl said that she needed to talk to Zach about something.... and he was like, "oh you'll have to discuss that with your mother", but no.... oh no, it was not about her period that she wanted to talk you about, man....
Anyway, the moment the kid hideously burned the cat (still alive and whimpering) just out of an outburst of childish rage (the poor animal was just minding its on feline business). Oh gosh, from that moment on I just wished for the agency to terminate that little psycho. So in the end, I was quite dissapointed that she manages to escape alive.
