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Bruce Willis could easily have played the hero in this preposterous film, "Fire with Fire," from 2012. Instead, he takes phone calls while Josh Duhamel has all the fun.Duhamel plays a firefighter, Jeremy Coleman, who witnesses a brutal double shooting in a convenience store. The killer is the notorious David Hagan (Vincent D'Onofrio), whom the police have been trying to get for years. He usually leaves a lot of dead bodies as witnesses. Since Jeremy escpaed, the police are desperate to have him testify. They put him in witness protection.In witness protection, he falls in love with Talia (Rosario Dawson), one of the people in charge of him. Somehow his whereabouts are found, and the next step will be to separate him and Talia as both are in terrible danger.As with many of these types of films, there's not much in the way of reality. Normally I don't care about that if it's fast-moving and exciting. But this really stretched the bounds of credibility and just wasn't that good. People involved in a horrible fire that is explosive, all encompassing, and three people are untouched? Rosario Dawson coughed once. It also was very upsetting as it looked like 9/11.The other thing was Josh Duhamel, after being pummeled in every part of his body, pounded, and screaming in pain was able to walk around just fine - not even a limp. Didn't even move slowly. Insane.Bruce Willis had nothing to do, so I can't comment on his acting. Josh Duhamel is a little too lightweight for me, although he's attractive and sincere. Vincent D'Onofrio has long been a fantastic actor. He's magnificent here, even though the bad guys in this film were so mean they were almost comic book types. No redeeming qualities. Julian McMahon from Nip/Tuck has a small role.You can easily skip this one.
LumpyMusic
The LOVE angle is not realistic. First off, and I'm sorry for all those who dig the fem actress, she is butt ugly in the movie. Boy meets girl, one time sex, now they're in love enough to move across country with each other? Violate her law enforcement ethics? Commit murder? All based on one hotel night of sex? Not believable.Bruce W has what, a dozen lines in the whole movie? They would have done the movie good to develop his character more but instead, they focused on the boy/girl thing.Action bits weren't too bad - gun shots etc.All in all the acting was about on par with a 70's porno movie, without the porn.Cellphones in the movies always work a heck of a lot better than mine does in real life.
FlashCallahan
After witnessing the murders of a store owner and his son, Jeremy Coleman barely escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against crime lord Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshals. As his new identity becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get his life back and save the lives of those he loves.....If you take away the 'get them before they get you' part of the narrative,this film is just a dramatic retread of the eighties comedy 'See No Evil, Hear No Evil', person sees a crime, gets away, and the bad guys are after them.But naturally, the cops are after our hero, because he's seen Kill Bill a couple of times.If this had been made in the nineties, it would have starred Keenan Ivory Wayans, and had a comic twist on the narrative, and still have that dark edge.Here we suffice with Duhamel literally taking the title for granted, running every five minutes and breathing heavily.Dawson is the best thing about the film, Vincent D'onofrio turns up as a guest villain, and Bruce Willis, although very good, looks very, very smug.It's by the numbers stuff, and its nothing memorable, but you'll have a bit if fun watching all the clichés add up.
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Not worth watching. Bruce Willis is completely not necessary in that movie because he is doing nothing at all. The "Hero" transforms into a killing machine after shooting some cans in the forest, yea right. But the worst is the end. He burns down a house and several gangsters with 2 bottles of some inflammable liquids. That was one of the worst final scenes I have ever seen. It looks like the villains took a bath in that gas before they entered the building and walls and stairways made of stone do burn like paper and of course everything explodes because it is gas station but I didn't recognize that. Summary: If this would have been an ad for some barbecue lighter then it was great but it wasn't. Stupid movie for simple people. Not even worth for Willis Fans. Now after this review I am asking myself why I still gave it 5/10 it should have been 3-4 at max. Probably because I am a Bruce Willis fan.
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