Backdraft
Two Chicago firefighter brothers who don't get along have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose.
28 September 1943, San Francisco, California, USA
27 September 1960, Columbus, Ohio, USA
21 February 1963, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
26 January 1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
13 December 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 June 1935, Beaumont, Texas, USA
July 26, 2014
Absolutely fantastic setpieces strung along an absolutely dimwitted script.
February 05, 2008
Visually, pic often is exhilarating, but it's shapeless and dragged down by corny, melodramatic characters and situations.
January 01, 2000
Backdraft is sure to do for fire what The Poseidon Adventure did for water.
September 23, 2010
Ron Howard popcorn-muncher is sappy, not smokin'.
November 21, 2016
...a top-notch thriller trapped within a poorly-paced and needlessly bloated piece of work...
February 05, 2008
Backdraft has some of the raw filmmaking excitement that has been missing from Howard's recent work.
February 05, 2008
Visually speaking, the film does pretty well with fire-as-spectacle, less well with everything else (Howard tends to trot out fuzzy-toned Spielbergian backlighting on any pretext).
September 10, 2015
Ron Howard's film is one of smoke-eaters, crispers, and torches... and it bestows a renewed respect on a profession all too often taken for granted.
May 20, 2003
The spectacular fire sequences, which must have been hellish to film, are powerfully enveloping on screen, thanks especially to the eerie effect of the title.
January 16, 2009
Backdraft may not be a very good movie, but it sure is great entertainment.
January 26, 2006
The fire sequences are stunning, and the build-up to them, complete with blaring sirens and bellowed conversations, has an aggressive immediacy.
