This must have been a real turkey at the box office. True, Dean is a hunk, and Talia Soto, who played the victimized girlfriend of the Cuban drug lord in LICENSE TO KILL, is good, though she almost always sounds on the verge of tears. Her son, played by Kristian de la Osa, is fine. The casting was wonderful in his case, because he could very easily have been Talia's kid.
What's wrong with the film is that it doesn't know what it's about...or even what kind of movie it is. On one level, it's a straight-ahead drama of an American pilot forced to land in a storm and how he interacts with the locals, including becoming a father-figure to a boy whose mother is attracted to the pilot, despite her being engaged to a planter on whose property the plane lands. Fine. Good enough for one movie.
But then we get this bearded old man who may or may not be just a local eccentric: he makes hand gestures and the control sticks of the plane move, birds take off, etc. At one point he seemingly turns into a hen! Then we get parts of the plane, after being smashed up, moving of their own volition in response to things the boy says, almost in CHRISTINE fashion. And we get another boy, a sort of rival with the main kid for the attention of a local girl (an annoying addition), who climbs down into an extinct volcano crater, uncovers what he thinks is buried treasure hidden there by the bearded old man, only to unearth a skull that jumps up at him in an obvious CGI effect. All of this adds up to a supernatural tale. Fine. Almost good enough for a different movie.
Put together, though, there are simply too many disparate elements for the thing to work. So I'm pretty sure it was a BOMB and went to video pretty quick. I found my copy at Wal-Mart for $5.50. It was worth it.
This movie surprized me being it was on a DVD by Good Times...usually they are not that clear and sometimes hard to understand but this is a shining example of how well they can do if they want...this DVD was super clear and the audio was super too. The only thing I wish is that for us harder of hearing folks that they would put the CC on the disc too.The movie it self is very good and I enjoyed the show alot. The acting was good and the story line was also very interesting as well. The animal actors did such a great job and as I said before the clarity of the DVD makes the scenery come alive in Alaska. I am glad I picked this one up and if you have kids there is also some good messages on convervation in it. I would buy it again now if I knew what I know now. At this price you owe it to... More Info about this DVD Director(s): David S. Cass Sr. DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Sure, FIRETRAP is loaded with cliches and improbably stupid people (such as the janitor who fights the fire with a broom and opens the hazardous materials door), but the movie with its CGI created fire, is an entertaining and engrossing "disaster" flick. Dean Cain who will probably always look like an overgrown boy does his role well. The biggest kudo goes to the screenwriter who decided to make a stereotypical character a little more human and realistic: James Storm's role as the owner of the company is not your typical head honcho. He helps rescue people on more than one occasion; he is a man who acts and is not afraid to get down and dirty; and he has a fierce and commendable loyalty to his company. Storm (who once played Gerard Stiles on Dark Shadows) gives it his best and carries a... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Harris Done DVD Release Date: Released the 22 January 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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The idea of turning Brooks Stanwood's wonderful novel The Glow into a film has been kicking around Hollywood for almost a quarter-century; the first paperback releases of the book had "Soon to be a major motion picture!" on them. As usual, that didn't pan out...until 2002.
Would that we had waited another quarter century rather than get a Lifetime Original MovieĀ. Not only that, but a Lifetime Original Movie directed by Craig Baxley, whose feature film record was so bad it's a miracle anyone lets him work in Hollywood at all.
Baxley (director of such brilliant cinematic fare as "I" Come in Peace, Stone Cold, and Deep Red-and fear, my brothers and sisters, for he has been put in charge of the remake of The Kingdom) takes a script by Stanwood and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Portia Derossi DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Shades of Rollerball! Director Ernest Dickerson and executive producer Wesley Snipes ponder the sport of the future and come up with... Futuresport, a combination of handball, ice hockey, and skateboard hot-dogging begun as an inner-city alternative to gang warfare and transformed into a glitzy media sensation. Dean Cain stars as the reigning Futuresport hero, a cocky glory hound who counts his cash and "popularity index" ratings with a smug grin until his narcissism costs him the championship game. As a ruthless terrorist group pushes the world to the brink of war, the suddenly altruistic Cain hatches a plan to bring Futuresport back to its roots. With the help of reporter (and former flame) Vanessa Williams and the game's creator (a rastah-inflected Snipes, who gives himself the... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dean Cain - Vanessa L. Williams - Wesley Snipes Director(s): Ernest R. Dickerson DVD Release Date: Released the 22 May 2001 Usually ships within 2 to 3 days
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