MonsterPerfect
Good idea lost in the noise
Hulkeasexo
it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.
Keeley Coleman
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
cwinf5
I have been a firefighter for over 21 years. When I first saw this movie I was outraged! How in the heck could anyone have made such a horrible piece of garbage? Yikes! Then I saw it again, and realized that I had watched history being made. Out of all the horribly made, horribly acted, horribly edited B-movies ever made, this is the BEST WORST MOVIE EVER MADE! I loved this so much, I actually bought it. It is great fun to see where all the mistakes are, like the British fire trucks responding to the American fire (it's even in the trailer!). I saw Striking Distance the other day, and fell out of my chair when I saw the chase scene from that. OH MY GAWD. I even showed this movie to my firefighter friends, and they agree with me that this is THE BEST WORST MOVIE EVER MADE.
ghostsmokesix
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.
Shaq_Ames
..::**Possible Spoilers**::.. I remember browsing the shelf at Movie World, and me, being a fireman, my eye caught the cover. It looked good. The cover is the only good thing about this piece of trash. I knew something was wrong when you could see the stunt mans "goo". Next thing I know, our "heros" pull up in an outdated piece of crap, and run in with next to no gear on. They would have been just as well of dousing themselves in gasoline before running inside. The plot dissolved after the beginning credits rolled, and after the ending credits, still wonder what happened to the arsonist plot. I think the PFD on their helmets stands for "Pretend Fire Department" because everything they could have done wrong in this movie is done wrong. It's weird how you can leave they leave the station in a Ward, then shows them responding with what looks like European apparatus, and even shows a tiller (where the heck did this come from) and then they pull up to the scene in a totally different rig. In one scene, you can see Jonny and Roy pull up in squad 51 (tv show emergency!) I think they used more stock footage than actual footage they taped themselves. Chessy one liners, innacurate statements, the list goes on and on. This piece of trash should be lit ablaze.
DPonti
Not only did they lift scenes from City on Fire but the opening chase sequence was lifted from the Bruce Willis movie Striking Distance!This movie was probably the worst movie I have seen.This movie belongs in the bargain bin at Wal Mart, ummm... better yet it belongs in the trash.
