Firestorm . Tucson Weekly . 01-20-98

Firestorm

DIRECTED BY: Dean Semler

REVIEWED: 01-20-98

The manipulatively dramatic music, derivative and heavy-handed shooting, and overblown but obviously meaningless action sequences of the first 20 minutes of this film made me feel like a 12-year-old being held down by bullies as I was repeatedly punched in the stomach while they shouted "faggot" at me. As the blazing inferno of motion slowed to allow for the requisite expository dialogue sequence (which lasted another 20 minutes), my emotional anguish mellowed into the steady and inhibiting ache one has upon realizing that it's been exactly one year since a loved one passed away. When this mixture of sorrow and humiliation had thoroughly numbed me to thoughts of movement, my companion, heroically, whispered to me, "Just how much more of this crap do you have to sit through to write a review?" "No more," I cried. "No more."

--DiGiovanna

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