{"id":152636,"date":"2021-01-12T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-skyfire-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T14:13:00","slug":"watch-skyfire-with-film-summary-and-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-skyfire-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Skyfire with film summary and movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e6f284b16e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e6f284b16e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-skyfire-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Skyfire_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Skyfire Online&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-skyfire-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Peter_Sobczynski\" >Peter Sobczynski<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-skyfire-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Skyfire_2021\" >Skyfire (2021)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Skyfire_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Skyfire Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/skyfire-movie-review-2021\/Skyfire.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>As you may recall, last month saw the release of \u201cGreenland,\u201d a film that dared to take the standard over-the-top disaster movie template and present it in more human terms\u00a0while nonetheless using Gerard Butler. Though the end result was successful enough in doing something different with one of the most rigid of film genres, but I suspect that those who who watched it expecting the usual orgy of destruction may have been dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed. Those people may derive more satisfaction from \u201cSkyfire,\u201d a Chinese disaster film that deploys all of the standard tropes of the genre but fails to do anything new or interesting with them.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>The setting is Tianhuo, a volcanic island off the Chinese coast. In a\u00a0prologue set 20 years ago, we see an unexpected and shockingly fast eruption wreak havoc on the place. Among those in jeopardy is volcanologist Li Wentao (Wang Xueqi), who can only watch helplessly as his wife becomes one of the victims, a loss that drives a wedge between Wentao and his young daughter, Xiaomeng (Hannah Quinlivan). In the present day, the now-adult Xiaomeng is herself working as a vulcanologist, leading a team monitoring the volcano for Jack Harris (Jason Issacs), a brash Australian tycoon who has transformed the island into a luxury resort and theme park designed to give them the full volcanic experience. Now you might think that building an enormously expensive resort on the site where a volcano went off the same year \u201cGladiator\u201d came out\u2014hell, I was trapped on a malfunctioning ride at Six Flags Great America once more than 40 years ago and I still have not set foot there since\u2014but he ensures visiting potential investors that there&#8217;s no chance that it will become active again for at least 150 years. (\u201cWe\u2019ve conquered it for our own entertainment!\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, when Xiaomeng comes to Jack with her concerns that the volcano is about to erupt, he ignores her warnings\u2014he&#8217;s currently cash-strapped and doesn\u2019t want to scare the investors. Xiaomeng, along with supervisor Jiang (Shi Liang) and Wentao, who also knows what&#8217;s about to happen and has come to get his daughter to safety, goes out into the field for more data and that is the moment where things go higgledy-piggledy. As fireballs start cascading through the air, instantly obliterating anyone who didn\u2019t make it into the opening credits (those who did tend to get one final moment of business before their demises), Xiaomeng, Wentao and the investors try to make it to safety while Jack watches all of his dreams literally going up in smoke. And if you thought that Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cChampagne Problems\u201d was the last word on elaborate marriage proposals gone wrong, spare a thought for Zhengman (Dou Xiao), who arranges an underwater proposal to his girlfriend (An Bai) at what proves to be both the wrong place and the wrong time.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, some of you may have already dismissed \u201cSkyfire\u201d as a clone of \u201cDante\u2019s Peak\u201d and \u201cVolcano\u201d (both 1997) with a smidgen of the \u201cJurassic Park\u201d films tossed in for good measure. Those with longer memories and a taste for disaster cinema, on the other hand, will dismiss it as a knockoff of the long-forgotten &#8220;When Time Ran Out&#8230;&#8221; (1980), disaster maven Irwin Allen\u2019s swan song which also featured a resort under attack from an active volcano. That particular film was terrible\u2014one of the worst in a genre not exactly flush with high-water marks\u2014but the sheer desperation that it displayed in its attempts to thrill jaded moviegoers (as I recall, it is the precise moment that embarrassed co-stars Paul Newman and Jacqueline Bisset first kiss when the volcano goes off) gives it a certain goofy charm.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>\u201cSkyfire,\u201d on the other hand, has all of the questionable elements one might find in such <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>\u2014cardboard characters, faulty plotting, risible dialogue (\u201cThis is a consequence of your arrogance!\u201d) and such\u2014but little of the fun. Director Simon West was imported to helm this one, presumably to lend his magic touch from past expensive action productions. Unfortunately, his films were only okay at best from an action standpoint\u2014he tended to get the job when Jan De Bont and Renny Harlin were busy\u2014and were more memorable for the star turns he got from Angelina Jolie as \u201cLara Croft: Tomb Raider\u201d (2001) and the jumbo casts jostling for screen time in \u201cCon Air\u201d (1997) and \u201cThe Expendables 2\u201d (2012). Here, on the other hand, the performers are as forgettable as their characters (only Issacs stands out, and not in a good way) and since we have no interest in them, it is hard to work up any concern about whether they live or die. As for the carnage, the visuals range from some decent practical effects work to some dubious-looking green-screen and CGI effects, but the only set piece that really works is a reasonably thrilling one in which people are forced to leap between two speeding monorails in a desperate bid for safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSkyfire\u201d is not a very good movie, but it isn\u2019t the kind of bad movie that I feel compelled to come down on too hard. It&#8217;s dumb and cartoonish as can be and there&#8217;s never a single moment in which you care at all about anything going on, not even when they drag in an endangered child in order to tug on the heartstrings. On the other hand, &#8220;Skyfire&#8221; moves quickly enough and those looking for a way to shut off their brains and ignore the outside world for 90-odd minutes could do worse. As a full-ticket theatrical experience, \u201cSkyfire\u201d would not be worth the asking price. At home, for the price of a mere rental and with decidedly lowered expectations, there is a possibility that more forgiving viewers might observe all the scenes of things blazing away, sip their coffee, and maybe think \u201cThis is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter Sobczynski\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/peter-sobczynski\/featured_Peter_Sobczynski.jpg\" title=\"Peter Sobczynski\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Peter_Sobczynski\"><\/span>Peter Sobczynski<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Peter Sobczynski is a contributor to eFilmcritic.com and Magill&#8217;s Cinema Annual and can be heard weekly on the nationally syndicated &#8220;Mancow&#8217;s Morning Madhouse&#8221; radio show.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Skyfire movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/skyfire-2021\/large_skyfire-movie-poster.jpg\" title=\"Skyfire movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Skyfire_2021\"><\/span> Skyfire (2021) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> 97 minutes <meta content=\"PT97M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/mzs\/the-jokes-on-him-tom-cruise-and-eyes-wide-shut\/thumb_Cruise_Eyes_Wide_Shut.png\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 7 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/chazs-blog\/meet-the-writers-carlos-aguilar\/thumb_hero_carlos_aguilar__2_.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 1 day ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/tributes\/michael-apted-1941-2021\/thumb_apted.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 1 day ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/streaming\/servant-returns-to-clean-up-the-chaos-of-season-one\/thumb_Servant_Photo_020102.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 1 day ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a>category<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/skyfire-movie-review-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Watch Skyfire Online&#8221; As you may recall, last month saw the release of \u201cGreenland,\u201d a film that dared to take the standard over-the-top disaster movie template and present it in more human terms\u00a0while nonetheless using Gerard Butler. 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