Firewalker starts as a woman named Patricia Goodman (Melody Anderson) ask's two adventurers for hire Max Donigan (Chuck Norris) & Leo Porter (Louis Gossett Jr.) to join her on a trip to an Indian reservation where she believes there is a fortune of gold. Using a treasure map she has they travel to the location & find a gold sacrificial knife & clues to where the rest of the treasure is hidden, they decide to team up & set out on an adventure to find the treasure overcoming all sorts of problems & dangers along the way...
Directed by J. Lee Thompson one has to say that Firewalker is crap, I thought it was utterly devoid of any action or excitement & the story sucked too. The script by Norman Aladjem, Robert Gosnell & Jeffrey M. Rosenbaum is like a poor man's cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) & Romancing the Stone (1984) with it's mixture of ancient mystic temples & magic along with it's basic adventure to find the gold at the end of a treasure map type story. Obviously meant as a buddy buddy mismatched partner comedy action adventure with a touch of fantasy Firewalker pretty much fails at everything it does, it amazingly unfunny with plenty of dumb dialogue, there's hardly any action in it with a few fights about the sum of it & the mystic elements are also crap & seemingly there purely for the hell of it. I was watching this last night & despite only running for about 100 minutes it felt like it went on forever, the narrative is poor as the trio stumble their way across Central America & unlike an Indiana Jones film where there is plenty of relevant action there's hardly any in Firewalker. The film feels like a travelogue at times such little happens as we follow the protagonists on their (boring) journey through a jungle.
Director Thompson is a very experienced action film director & I expected more here, the bad guy is nominal, the action scenes are bland & sluggish & it's as boring as hell. Apart from a few fights there really isn't any action at all, there's no car chases, explosions, anything original or shoot-outs & the violence is also minimum. As a whole it's a surprisingly dull & just downright poor film & I don't know what else I can say about it & it comes as no surprise it was produced by Menahem Golan & Yoran Globus under their Cannon Group & this is just the type of flick for which they have such a bad reputation & why they went bankrupt.
Technically the film is bland, I wouldn't have thought Firewalker had a big budget & it's a largely uneventful film. Apparently shot in Mexico. The acting is poor, you would have thought a film starring both Chuck Norris & Louis Gossett Jr. would be good but they both turn in poor performances & isn't in the so bad it's good category but the so bad it's bad category.
Firewalker is a really poor action adventure type film that I was extremely disappointed with, I just can't see anything positive in this film at all & I didn't like one little bit. Could have been fun, as it is it's crap.
Directed by J. Lee Thompson one has to say that Firewalker is crap, I thought it was utterly devoid of any action or excitement & the story sucked too. The script by Norman Aladjem, Robert Gosnell & Jeffrey M. Rosenbaum is like a poor man's cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) & Romancing the Stone (1984) with it's mixture of ancient mystic temples & magic along with it's basic adventure to find the gold at the end of a treasure map type story. Obviously meant as a buddy buddy mismatched partner comedy action adventure with a touch of fantasy Firewalker pretty much fails at everything it does, it amazingly unfunny with plenty of dumb dialogue, there's hardly any action in it with a few fights about the sum of it & the mystic elements are also crap & seemingly there purely for the hell of it. I was watching this last night & despite only running for about 100 minutes it felt like it went on forever, the narrative is poor as the trio stumble their way across Central America & unlike an Indiana Jones film where there is plenty of relevant action there's hardly any in Firewalker. The film feels like a travelogue at times such little happens as we follow the protagonists on their (boring) journey through a jungle.
Director Thompson is a very experienced action film director & I expected more here, the bad guy is nominal, the action scenes are bland & sluggish & it's as boring as hell. Apart from a few fights there really isn't any action at all, there's no car chases, explosions, anything original or shoot-outs & the violence is also minimum. As a whole it's a surprisingly dull & just downright poor film & I don't know what else I can say about it & it comes as no surprise it was produced by Menahem Golan & Yoran Globus under their Cannon Group & this is just the type of flick for which they have such a bad reputation & why they went bankrupt.
Technically the film is bland, I wouldn't have thought Firewalker had a big budget & it's a largely uneventful film. Apparently shot in Mexico. The acting is poor, you would have thought a film starring both Chuck Norris & Louis Gossett Jr. would be good but they both turn in poor performances & isn't in the so bad it's good category but the so bad it's bad category.
Firewalker is a really poor action adventure type film that I was extremely disappointed with, I just can't see anything positive in this film at all & I didn't like one little bit. Could have been fun, as it is it's crap.