{"id":446435,"date":"2022-05-13T08:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-firestarter-review-zac-efron-in-a-remake-that-doesnt-burn-brightly\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:48:03","slug":"watch-firestarter-review-zac-efron-in-a-remake-that-doesnt-burn-brightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-firestarter-review-zac-efron-in-a-remake-that-doesnt-burn-brightly\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Firestarter&#8217; Review: Zac Efron in a Remake That Doesn&#8217;t Burn Brightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 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-6a26e06bd1036\" 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-6a26e06bd1036\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-firestarter-review-zac-efron-in-a-remake-that-doesnt-burn-brightly\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Firestarter_Review_Zac_Efron_in_a_Remake_That_Doesnt_Burn_Brightly%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Firestarter&#8217; Review: Zac Efron in a Remake That Doesn&#8217;t Burn Brightly&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-firestarter-review-zac-efron-in-a-remake-that-doesnt-burn-brightly\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Firestarter_Review_Zac_Efron_in_a_Remake_That_Doesnt_Burn_Brightly%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Firestarter&#8217; Review: Zac Efron in a Remake That Doesn&#8217;t Burn Brightly&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-firestarter-review-zac-efron-in-a-remake-that-doesnt-burn-brightly\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-firestarter-review-zac-efron-in-a-remake-that-doesnt-burn-brightly\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Firestarter_Review_Zac_Efron_in_a_Remake_That_Doesnt_Burn_Brightly%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Firestarter&#8217; Review: Zac Efron in a Remake That Doesn&#8217;t Burn Brightly&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Firestarter_Review_Zac_Efron_in_a_Remake_That_Doesnt_Burn_Brightly%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Firestarter&#8217; Review: Zac Efron in a Remake That Doesn&#8217;t Burn Brightly&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        In the \u201970s and early \u201980s, the era that defined him, Stephen King came up with a whole lot of horror-story metaphors for anger. There was Carrie, the angry telekinetic nerd-turned-pranked-prom-demon, and Christine the angry car, and Cujo the angry dog, and the novel that was the greatest of King\u2019s rage mythologies \u2014 \u201cThe Shining,\u201d published in 1977, which was all about the hidden anger of middle-class men, with the frustrated aspiring writer Jack Torrance (not a domestic abuser but the sort of man who would have a few drinks and then yank his son\u2019s arm too forcefully) standing in for what was at the time a new awareness of the ideology of masculine fury. Jack Torrance was a portrait in the self-justifying nature of toxic male anger, which is why the gothic tale of his descent still resonates.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s \u201cFirestarter.\u201d It was a novel about a girl with the power \u2014 and the anger \u2014 of pyrokinesis. Yet unlike Carrie or Jack Torrance or the other protagonists of King\u2019s best novels, Charlene \u201cCharlie\u201d McGee doesn\u2019t have something grandly deep and meaningful to be angry about. She and her telepathic father are being pursued by an ominous government agency, and her incendiary gift will flare up in response, but she has had this talent since birth. There\u2019s not a lot of psychodrama to her flames of hell.<\/p>\n<p>The original movie version of \u201cFirestarter,\u201d starring the ironically cuddly Drew Barrymore, came out in 1984, and it was probably the worst King adaptation to date \u2014 King himself was on record as hating it. But as studios s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>-mine the last half century of pop culture in search of IP that can hit chords of nostalgia, it isn\u2019t only beloved shows and <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> that are ripe for remakes. There\u2019s also the desire to remake the duds \u00ad\u2014 to do it better, to make good where they went wrong. Hence a new \u201cFirestarter,\u201d updated to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>Barrymore, fresh off \u201cE.T.,\u201d was only eight years old when the first film was shot. Ryan Kiera Armstrong, the star of the new one, is 12. Barrymore had more idiosyncrasy, but Armstrong has a soft-edged scowl \u2014 she knows how to cry through her embers. And the movie gives her plenty of reasons to go full boil, like when the kid at school with the Mason Reese haircut hits her in the back of the head with a dodgeball, or when she incinerates a cat who scratched her, or when she learns that John Rainbird (Michael Greyeyes), the agent and assassin dispatched by The Shop to capture her, has murdered her mother.<\/p>\n<p>But these situational plot turns are very cut-and-dried kindling. The new \u201cFirestarter\u201d is a mom-and-dad-and-feral-kid-undercover story that turns into a dad-and-daughter-on-the-run road movie, and the whole thing plays like \u201cLogan\u201d done in the worst humdrum rhythmless made-for-streaming generic style, the lighting flat, the soundtrack heavy with John Carpenter\u2019s old-school one-man-at-the-synthesizer horror music, because if you took that sound of processed dread away you wouldn\u2019t have much else.<\/p>\n<p>We can see what must have attracted the producer, Jason Blum, to having another go at this material. Charlie and her folks, played by Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon, are a lot like prototypes of the X-Men \u2014 \u201cordinary\u201d folks with alien abilities. There\u2019s a good creepy opening-credits sequence, done in high-contrast color video flashback to Andy (Efron) and Vicky (Lemmon) as college students being interviewed by the Department of Scientific Intelligence before they\u2019re given the experimental hallucinogenic drug called Lot 6; it\u2019s this experience that causes them to become telepathic and (in her case) telekinetic. The whole CIA-tinkers-around-with-LSD premise of \u201cFirestarter\u201d has a potential that King\u2019s novel exploited, but in the new movie it\u2019s the merest of backdrops.<\/p>\n<p>Andy, played by Efron in an unflattering beard, earns his living as a hypno-therapist who can get rid of your smoking cravings in a Skinner-box heartbeat, while Charlie, in school, is considered to be a freak because she doesn\u2019t have Wi-Fi. (The family can\u2019t afford to risk being tracked.) The always welcome Kurtwood Smith is on hand as Joseph Wanless, the Shop doctor who developed Lot 6 and foresees a time when Charlie, having grown older, will possess the power to cause a nuclear explosion with her mind. \u201cTerminate the girl,\u201d he seethes, \u201cor one day she will destroy us all.\u201d In a funny way, the film presents that as a high compliment. It treats Charlie, in her destructive cool, as a kind of messiah \u2014 Saint Joan of the apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>But just when the fun should be getting rolling, \u201cFirestarter\u201d turns into the most luke-warmed-over of paranoid-conspiracy films, a thriller stripped to the bone, with The Shop, run by a sn<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>ish Gloria Reuben as Hollister, reduced to an annoying bureaucratic abstraction. The visual effects feel dated, maybe because there\u2019s only so much that you can do with things exploding into an oversize blaze. This \u201cFirestarter\u201d never catches fire, and rarely even finds a note of inviting retro-ness, maybe because King\u2019s novel, beneath it all, was actually a warped piece of 1960s nostalgia, an homage to the days of \u201cBurn, baby, burn.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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