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5.6/10 • 691

2022-05-121h 34m

HorrorScience FictionThriller

Never play with fire.

For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.

Directors
Keith Thomas
Editors
Timothy Alverson

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  1. Ryan Kiera Armstrong

    Ryan Kiera Armstrong

    Charlie McGee

  2. Zac Efron

    Zac Efron

    Andy McGee

  3. Sydney Lemmon

    Sydney Lemmon

    Vicky Tomlinson-McGee

  4. Kurtwood Smith

    Kurtwood Smith

    Dr. Joseph Wanless

  5. Michael Greyeyes

    Michael Greyeyes

    John Rainbird

  6. Gloria Reuben

    Gloria Reuben

    Captain Jane Hollister

  7. John Beasley

    John Beasley

    Irv Manders

  8. Tina Jung

    Tina Jung

    Ms. Gardner

  9. Hannan Younis

    Hannan Younis

    Darla Gurney

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CinemaSerf

May 29, 2022

5/10

He might look good in a white T-shirt but the thing is, as Zac Efron gets older he looks more and more like an automaton. When he was younger, he had a charm about him - now he just looks like his life consists of nothing but the gym, the manscapists and a bath in yesterday's excess kale smoothie mix! Add to that really lacklustre performance some screaming from a competent youngster in Ryan Kiera Armstrong ("Charlie") and we are left with a very mediocre adaptation of this pretty lightweight Stephen King story that is big on pyrotechnic effects, certainly, but on very little else. There is a story: the youngster can cause things to combust at will when she gets stressed or annoyed; her father can bend people to his will making his eyes bleed in the process - quite an effective cure for smokers who want to give up; and her mother - Sidney Lemmon, well she too has a quirk - but I cannot remember what it was (but it definitely wasn't firefighting). Anyway, those who scientifically enhanced this family are hot on their trail - and it's all a question of who will prevail. Well it would be if you were still remotely bothered but after half an hour I just wasn't. For a movie about conflagration - it's sadly all a bit of a damp squib.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$12,000,000.00
Revenue
$15,000,000.00
Keywords
firebased on novel or booktelepathypsychic powerpsychicfemale magiciansupernatural powersecret government agencypsychic forcepyrokinesis