jace-10 Reviews

Firestarter: Rekindled (2002)

don't bother.

[2/10 · 22 June 2002]

What the heck was this movie?? A rejected script for X-Toddlers?? That is the only thing that i kept asking myself through out the long duration of this horrible thing.

I must admit that i have never read the book, but i am a fan of the original film. This film ALL but erases the existence of it. Let's change the entire ending of a movie and make another and call it a sequel. That is exactly what has happened here. With the additions of the little village of the damned mutant children making it so far out there it was borderline comedy. The two good things out this film were the actress who played Charlie who was actually a good actress, just the wrong film for her. Danny Nucci was good as always. But they could not save this horrid thing.

Stay away from it or you will wish you were set on Fire.

Speedway Junky (1999)

Great Acting, Great Story, Near Perfect Film...

[10/10 · 20 June 2002]

So i had been waiting for 2 years to see this movie, finally a homevideo release here in the US. I bought it the first day on DVD. Ended up watching it 3 times the first day. I have read alot of the previous comments, saying that the story has been told before, and so on. I will admit it had its similarities in subject matter with films like "Johns" and "My own Private Idoho". Although those two films were more about the grittiness of the life of the hustler. This movie had something that the others lacked,a real story and most of all, HEART. It was not hard to like these characters at all.

The film that i would compare this one to more would be "Showgirls". The story line is alot closer to that than any others mentioned. Our lead character ends up in Vegas with a dream. Gets involved with persons that they shouldn't. Someone falls in love with them. Something horrible happens, and they get out. But they somehow are forever changed for the better. This movie is truely underestimated. If you didn't like it the first time, give it a second try, you will love it.