Deadly Blaze – Heißer als die Hölle (2001)

Deadly Blaze – Heißer als die Hölle: Directed by Jim Wynorski. With John Bradley, Tom Arnold, Ice-T, Amanda Pays. An oil refinery blows up, causing a firestorm that threatens a hospital and everyone inside.

“Absolutely terrible. How can abominations like this ever be made? A decent premise (city put in danger by big corporation, heroically saved by firefighters), but an absolute cliche ridden script of the worst order, hammy acting by a cast who donu0026#39;t seem to know whether to play it for laughs, and very cheap and repetitive special effects. Must have been a stuntmans hog heaven, because we get to see lots of people wandering around on fire and falling from buildings for no good reason. Ice-T, despite taking second billing, appears only for about a minute at the start and a minute at the end. Tom Arnold picks up his cheque by sleepwalking through his role, and the rest of the cast must have been desperate for work and are desperately under rehearsed or just unfamiliar with the script.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYou know something is badly wrong when in the intro scene, a man sets on fire by the side of an extremely large lake, yet prefers to wander around going u0026#39;argh, arghu0026#39; rather than THROWING HIMSELF IN THE LAKE! The final climactic scene is frankly laughable – not even u0026#39;good in a bad wayu0026#39; as people make mistakes that they simply wouldnu0026#39;t do in real life (walking around slowly and having a look at the pretty fires rather than running like hell). Do yourself a favour and avoid this turkey.”