Firestarter

An absolute miss. Over as soon as it started, it made me wonder why even remake it if they're just gonna rush through it.

Of the versions that have been produced to me this was the best & the scariest by far. Efron is great as Charlie’s father Andy as is Lemmon as Charlie’s mom Victoria, but by far is Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Charlie. Smith & Reuben are good in their respective roles and Greyeyes adds more dimension to the character of Rainbird.

A soulless, flat and achingly by the numbers adaptation that wholly fails to convey the wonderful Stephen King novel. Even the special effects aren't special. A cast iron dud of a movie. Just watch the far superior 1984 adaptation (which itself wasn't stellar) or even better, just read the excellent book. We still await a definitive adaptation.

This is one of the weaker books from Steven King as it's not really a horror. It's well made, good acting BUT the story just is not that interesting.

I see King, I give it a chance, but as with every constant media output, streaming down story after story, some of them might just be subpar, below expectations. Firestarter might work great as a book, 4/5 average on Goodreads, but this remake of the original movie adaptation just misses the mark. The story follows the McGees, a family of seemingly normal people that hides a secret: their dad is awesomely fit Zac Efron, which makes for an unusual dad bod in real life. Oh, and their daughter Charlie can set things on fire with her mind. Not only she has to cope with this superpower, but she also catches a lot of attention from Ever-Caring Gov Support. Jumping straight into the main problem of this movie explains why I skipped reviewing character, setting, plot: the movie is too fast paced. With 94 minutes of runtime, everything happens at a speed that leaves no room for depth, culminating in a shallow story with little emotional connection. Grief is absent, even though it seems like it should have played a major role on the Charlie's change; she does this training on one segment and sort of master her skills in like, 30 minutes story-wise, that's the extent of how fast this movie feels. Without this emotional connection to the characters, the movie runs uninteresting for its extension, like that one coworker that is your buddy inside the office, but you never met outside work. In the end, you just turn off the TV and that is it.

In my opinion, it wasn't that bad that people say but I have seen many better movies.

A dumb premise that leads to bloodless series of embarrassingly bad non-events.

An utter yawn of a movie. Cannot possibly think of why this was made.

I had high hopes for this remake of a classic, but the sound effects were ridiculously over the top, the acting from many of the cast hard to believe and I think probably the only thing I actually enjoyed was the music from John Carpenter and his son. I watched 37 minutes and had to turn it off. If one hasn't read the book (or seen the original movie), I believe it would be incredibly difficult to understand a lot of the references. Gloria Reuben's performance was the most believable for me.

One of the best King adaptations out there.