Wow. 'Ablaze' was terrible. I just rented it and watched it, and had to find a place to post a review to warn people to STAY AWAY! Bad acting, bad script, horrible special effects, etc. The movie box says something about a serial arsonist being on the loose (*cough*Backdraft*cough*), but that has absolutely nothing to do with the plot. It advertises that Tom Arnold and Ice T are the main actors in it...wrong. Ice T is in the movie for less than 5 minutes and makes no impact on the storyline whatsoever, and Arnold really doesn't have more than a dozen speaking lines before he's killed. On a technical note, this movie was made only like 3 years ago, but they're driving a tiller ladder truck that looks like it dates back to the 50's. Half of the apparatus in the movie I'm pretty sure is English anyway. At the house fire, they go into a burning building without SCBAs. And could someone explain how the Captain's brother died? He didn't have major burns, he didn't take in any more smoke than the other guys with him did, but somehow he dies. None of the stuff they're doing makes any sense. If you want a good firefighting movie, go see Ladder 49.
Review of Ablaze
