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Sold B movie thanks to it's likable leads.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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Such a great movie, I am glad that I caught it on syfy. Would love to see it again.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/16/23
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This is one of the movies I wanted to watch because Ian Somerhalder appeared in it. Apparently not the best movie to watch, but it's not bad either. I liked Colin Cunningham and Aleks Paunovic, they're good actors and a person is a good actor when you think he can't be anything, but his character. They gave me that impression. Ian Somerhalder on the other hand wasn't attracting much attention to his acting, rather showcasing the good looks of his character. I mean in most of this type action movies the protagonist gets to be some special agent from some law-enforcement body, who happens to be dashingly stylish, very handsome, adorable and charming, and always having a near-to-death experience at the end of the movie (call it a cliché if you want), so there seems to be no special requirement for the actor to shine off his acting abilities much. I think this was the case with Ian Somerhalder here. He was cute as usual, but I really prefer watching him in some challenging roles like in "Changing Hearts" (Jason Kelly is a troubled young man unable to find happiness and in constant depression who later opens up his heart to a beautiful relationship with a very positive strong woman) or the "Tournament" (Miles Slade is one of the world's best assassins participating in the Tournament for the title of Number 1 and 10 mil. USD. He is a Texas psycho crazy about killing anyone and anything he sees, collecting fingers of his victims as his trophies: a real psychopath! He is killed near the end of the movie by the tournament organizers). Now, that's acting! In overall, I liked the movie, the plot was ok, so I recommend watching it once to just for the fun of it!
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
02/07/23
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Fireball (Kristoffer Tabori, 2009)
Fireball (Thanakorn Pongsuwan, 2009)
There were two movies called Fireball released in 2009. One of them, directed by Kristoffer Tabori (a serviceable TV series director with two big-screen features under his belt), is a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie starring Lexa Doig. The other is a Thai martial arts film about extreme basketball. I'll give you a few seconds to decide which of them is the better film.
Now that you're done laughing hysterically, we'll continue by noting that the single keyword attached to the American film on IMDB is âpantiesâ?. And I have no idea why, despite watching the DVD version rather than the TV version. Which should tell you how much I remember about this movie. I remember, as I mentioned, that it stars Lexa Doig, whose appearance in a movie immediately sends it into the dumpster (viz. Jason X, her last big-screen appearance for a decade), and has to do with a big, dumb prison escapee (Aleks Paunovic from Wishmaster 4) who finds himself with pyrokinetic abilities. Screenplay was written by Kariag Wenman, who was responsible for such cinematic classics as Intermedio and Confined. Basically, you get what you pay for.
On the other hand there's Fireball the Thai sports flick, and I am able to admit that my weakness for sports films (despite my general dislike of actually watching sports) probably accounts for my liking this more than a lot of people did. It, too, involves Tan, a guy who just got out of prison (Preeti Barameeanat) thanks to his brother Tai basically bribing him out. His brother, however, is now in a persistent vegetative state, and it's up to Tan to figure out why. Thanks to a lead from Tai's girlfriend, he starts hanging around in the same places, and is eventually approached by people who think he's Tan (they're twins) and want him to get back into playing Fireball, a combination of basketball and May Thai where anything goes and billions of dollars are exchanged in underground gambling rings. There's a pretty ridiculous revenge subplot, some cheesy acting, the obligatory woeful subtitles, and the balance of big fight scenes to actual plot advancement is tipped way over, but for simple turn-your-brain-off fun you can do a lot worse than this. Like, for example, Fireball.
Fireball (Tabori): * Â 1/2
Fireball (Pongsuwan): ***
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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not worth it, some gridiron star goes mental and gains powers of fire control,its cheap and boring basically awful
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/30/23
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Better than most SyFy films due to the talent of Ian Somerhalder. The pyrotechnic special effects were also good.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/24/23
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