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Backdraft (1991) A big budget, big bucks populist action picture spotlighting he men
in peril, this Ron Howard directed fire fighting drama features really
amazing fire scenes but suffers from trying to be two different pictures
at once. The interesting story is a Silence
of the Lambs rip off about fire investigator Robert DeNiro and imprisoned
arsonist Donald Sutherland working out who's torching prominent Chicagoans,
though it winds up with a highly guessable revelation involving the
prominently billed supporting actor who has so little to do that he
might as well be wearing a 'Mystery Culprit' t-shirt. Unfortunately,
the DeNiro Sutherland plot takes a back seat to a hokey family drama
as fire-fightin' brothers Kurt Russell and William Baldwin brawl and
argue their way through conflagrations as they use up pages of script
apparently dumped from some Clark Gable Spencer Tracy macho bonding
movie of the '30s. Howard takes care to cast the always-welcome Jennifer
Jason Leigh and Rebecca De Mornay as the love interest, but the spectacular
pyrotechnics don't really leave space for the womenfolks. First Published In: Empire (issue unknown) Visit Kim's Official Website at www.johnnyalucard.com
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