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Fireball

Fireball (2009) Movie Poster
  •  Canada  •    •    •  Directed by: Kristoffer Tabori.  •  Starring: Ian Somerhalder, Lexa Doig, Aleks Paunovic, Aaron Pearl, Colin Cunningham, Shelene Yung, Tim Perez, Julia Arkos, Roman Podhora, Stephen E. Miller, Julian Christopher, Linda Darlow, Toby Hargrave.  •  Music by: Justin Melland.
       Inspector Ava Williams investigates a prison fire to its source, a prisoner seeking revenge against those who put him behind bars.

Review:

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While this production bears most of the signature elements of a SciFi Channel original - miserable writing, terrible acting, lazy directing, and bargain-basement CGI - it's a stunning departure for the network. It involves neither giant animals eating humans, nor natural disasters. And when SciFi thinks outside the Jaws Earthquake meta-boxes, you can count on somewhat different (if not new) cinematic awkwardness. It's like a they're installing new hamster wheel for their cable cage of tedium.

I just wish the writers would leave their bimbo-encrusted poolside chaise lounges long enough to do some actual field research. The characters are never drawn from recognizable reality, and the flat technical facts they spew in lieu of dialog sound like Wikipedia searches.


Review by jet66 from the Internet Movie Database.