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May 13, 2022 · The score deserved a movie that knew how to use it more effectively and with tighter visual language. Everything here is close-up, boring coverage in flatly written dialogue scenes, and the action is even worse.
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May 12, 2022 · Firestarter: Directed by Keith Thomas. With Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Michael Greyeyes. A young girl tries to understand how she mysteriously gained the power to set things on fire with her mind.
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- Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Keith Thomas
- 2022-05-12
10% Tomatometer 163 Reviews 47% Audience Score 250+ Verified Ratings For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky...
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- Keith Thomas
- R
- Zac Efron
- A bummer of a burn.
- The best Stephen King novel is...
- Verdict
By Matt Fowler
Updated: May 15, 2022 8:38 pm
Posted: May 13, 2022 4:38 pm
Firestarter premieres Friday, May 13 in both theaters and streaming on Peacock.
Blumhouse's new adaptation of Stephen King's seminal scarebook Firestarter, from 1980, features strong performances from Zac "He Plays Dads Now" Efron and young Ryan Kiera Armstrong, but the finished product is a bland retelling of a story that, here in 2022, needed an extra jolt to bring it back and have it stand out among today's super-powered rabble.
Not only are superhero stories now the meat and potatoes of our mainstream multiplex fabric, but "youths discovering powers" is its own overflowing well. Firestarter, as a King story, is naturally more wicked than other kid fables, which tend to lean toward family-friendly adventure, but remaking this story without adding anything particularly new or making it scarier just leaves it defenseless, and feeling wholly unoriginal in the mutant landscape despite it being one of the first stories of its kind.
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On the bad guy front, Michael Greyeyes isn't as short-sheeted as the others, but he still feels like a ghost of a presence rather than a full character. As Rainbird, a super-powered fixer sent after Charlie (played by George C. Scott in the 1984 film), Greyeyes gets a few notable showdown moments, but the end resolution for his character makes little sense and only adds yet another meandering, confusing thing to this tale.
Despite solid performances from Zac Efron and Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Firestarter feels stifled in story and presentation. Over four decades have passed since the Stephen King novel, so new ideas were needed to resuscitate this twisted tale and have it not feel undercooked -- or even less interesting than other stories that have copied it over the ye...
May 13, 2022 · Movie review: In this new adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Firestarter,’ Zac Efron stars as a telepathic man who has to protect his young daughter, who can start fires with her mind. The ...
May 13, 2022 · For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction.
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Firestarter is a 2022 American science fiction horror film directed by Keith Thomas, from a screenplay by Scott Teems, based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, and a remake of the 1984 film of the same name.
