kevincarr Well, best thing about the film was the contra dance band at the end, the Hillillies from Mars, of which I am a member. Actors were competent I thought, though working with very poor material. I will say that lunch was pretty good. Though the extras didn't get the same grub as the stars. My buddy Ray, unfamiliar with the movie class system, managed to wander through the first class lunch line and get actual meat instead of the spaghetti we lowly serfs were served. Cast and crew seemed like nice folks. Strange business this second line Hollywood stuff. I think the director must have gotten tired when editing, and the writer gave up after awhile as well. Wonder what it would have been like had everyone mimed their parts?

Octagonal While viewing a multi-pack of action DVD's I stumbled across what appears to be a little known film that I certainly had not heard of before. The only actor immediately recognizable is Dean Stockwell who has only a small and rather featureless part as Mayor Bill Klinger. Despite this I found the scenery and acting well above average for what was ostensibly a low budget production. Panoramic views of the sweeping forestry were well executed and while the special effects were not up to blockbuster standard they were adequate and in no way detracted from the experience. The plot revolves around new Rural Fire Chief Darcy Hamilton played by the incredibly sexy Janet Gunn. The move brings tension between Darcy, her daughter, the mayor and the local firefighters. All the while a random arsonist is making life difficult. The story itself is sound with some believable action heating things up. Overall I found the movie absorbing with above average acting and reasonably strong plot lines.

MTGrizzly You know this is going to be a bad film right from the beginning : The fire can be seen from a road - yet they drop in smoke jumpers? You don't jump into a fire that you ca see from the road. After the jumpers get on the ground, the "veteran" says he wants to attack the fire from the uphill side? Fire always runs uphill! Ask the guys that died at Mann Gulch or Storm King Mountain in Colorado how attacking fires from uphill works out. When they are walking to the fire, the sound of the wind is blowing loudly in the background, but none of the vegetation is moving at all and the fire isn't wind blown. After they have tried for a few minutes to put out the fire, a Sikorsky S76 helicopter appears and makes a water drop right on the fire without any planning? If they could have put it out with a water drop, they would have done that first. When the fire is "contained" and the entirely bogus rescue has been carried off, the "chief" calls for a helicopter and flies back to town - if they could have flown into the fire, then they would have sent a helicopter attack in, not smoke jumpers. Later, after commandeering the helicopter to look for her daughter, the "chief" rappels down from the helicopter, (without throwing any rope out first) in to trees and abandons the firefighting effort. Then she gets stuck in the tree, (while still attached to the helicopter), and then falls out of the tree while trying to get down.Unfortunately, the movie goes down hill from there. The dialog is terrible. The plot is contrived, (and entirely predictable). The special effects are about what I would expect from this kind of movie, in other words, really bad. Acting swings from non-existent to way over acting. If a movie has a good plot, sometimes you can be persuaded to suspend belief enough to enjoy the movie. In other instances, if the special effects are outstanding sometimes you can live with no plot. This is not either of that those types of movie.Even if you know nothing about wildland fires or wildland fire fighting, this movie is not worth the film used to make it. If you like movies with plot, dialog, acting and a decent premise, this is not one of them.Apparently, this movie is also shown under the title, "California Firestorm." If anything, that is even a less apt title than "Inferno."

anthony l. crockett This movie was NOT as the description described "The Earth's air is polluted by solar activity, causing much of the planet to burst into flames. Dallas Cowboy cheerleader Janet Gunn stars as heroine Darcy Hamilton. Also starring Jeff Fahey and Dean Stockwell," The actors and actresses were as described(they did leave out boring) It was about an arsonist fire chief setting a fire trying to be a hero and they blew up a dam to keep the city from burning and of course blowing that up didn't endanger the city at all. Do the people who write the descriptions even watch these movies? IMDb needs a rating that allows one to post a minus rating