5/11/2023 0 Comments Firestarter book stephen king![]() ![]() ![]() The memory haunts her father Andy (Zac Efron, going against type as a suburban dad), who still has nightmares about the incident.Ĭharlie is in elementary school now, but the problem hasn’t gone away. It began when she was a baby, engulfing her mobile in flames while she squirmed in her crib. ‘Love Again’ Review: Not Even Celine Dion Can Save This Wildly Contrived Rom-Com from Its Own SadnessĬharlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is a little girl who, as savvy literary minds could probably deduce from the title, starts a lot of fires. What should be an intense chase movie is essentially 90 minutes of Zac Efron and his daughter hanging out in rooms lit like a senior citizen’s kitchen before their adult kid opens the blinds. Yet director Keith Thomas and writer Scott Teems found a way to turn the fun source material into a lethargic parenting drama that’s completely devoid of warmth. An adaptation of the pulpy novel might not be good, but one would think it would at least be entertaining. A Stephen King book about a kid who starts fires should be a B-movie producer’s dream. To call Universal’s take on the Stephen King novel generic would be an insult to generic cinema everywhere, as the film’s inability to make a single distinct choice is almost impressive. ![]() ![]() Repeat that process 999 more times and show those movies to the same AI, and you’ll probably get “ Firestarter.” If you forced an extremely smart AI to watch 1,000 direct-to-VOD horror movies, then asked it to generate one of its own, you’d end up with something that resembles the worst Blumhouse fare from the past decade. ![]()
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