Firestarter 2: Rekindled
Little Charlie's all grown up...and setting the town on fire!
In 1984, Stephen King's Firestarter became a horror film hit, with its frightening tale of a young couple whose involvement in a secret government drug experiment produced a dangerously gifted child. Sociopathic agent John Rainbird was instrumental in the "Lot 6" testing and earned the young girl's trust for his own ends. He then murdered her parents. Enraged, she unleashed her pyrokinetic powers, engulfing Rainbird in flames- and left him for dead.
The child is now a woman. Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Marguerite Moreau) has spent the past 10 years on the run from the unscrupulous government agents who created her. Now she's through running and has decided to reclaim her life.
A showdown is inevitable, and Charlie's only chance for survival lies in a turncoat government agent and a half-mad professor named Richardson (Dennis Hopper).
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Disappointment - MBritKathryne
I am usually easily pleased when it comes to movies, but this one was a bore. Which disappointed me deeply as I loved the original Firestarter with Drew Barrymore.
Marguerite was fine as Charlie, and so was Skye Bartusiak as a younger Charlie, but most of the other kids annoyed me deeply, as though they couldn't act.
The special effects were anything but.
Overall I would give it 1 star. Wouldn't watch it twice, but was able to sit through the whole thing (even if I did skip through some parts).Firestarter 2: Rekindled - Pizano
I thourghly enjoyed the film version of Firestarter starring Drew Barrymore. Firestarter: Rekindled is actually a sequel to the book. During the first part of this the movie, characters keep saying that Charlie died when she destroyed the Shop's HQ. That only happened in the book. As a sequel to that, this is excellent. Marge Moreau is totally right for the role of Charlie McGee (and she's beautiful!). Malcolm McDowell is great as Rainbird which I found to be a personality cross between Professor X and Magneto and the cameo by Dennis Hopper as a fellow mutant with the talent of seeing the future is ingenious. The only thing that irks me about this miniseries is that the mutations that occurred to people in the 'Lot' experiments seem too be too X-Men-ish. One kid has Havok's powers of a sonic boom (when he screams), one kid can see through walls even though he has no eyes, another can absorb life-force. It's a little too much of a sci-fi fantasy. At least in the book and the original film the topic of the mutations was treated seriously. Still, the FX are cool and it is entertaining back to front
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Disappointment - MBritKathryne
I am usually easily pleased when it comes to movies, but this one was a bore. Which disappointed me deeply as I loved the original Firestarter with Drew Barrymore.
Marguerite was fine as Charlie, and so was Skye Bartusiak as a younger Charlie, but ...Firestarter 2: Rekindled - Pizano
I thourghly enjoyed the film version of Firestarter starring Drew Barrymore. Firestarter: Rekindled is actually a sequel to the book. During the first part of this the movie, characters keep saying that Charlie died when she destroyed the Shop's HQ. That only ...