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Backdraft
In a story that looks different and exciting, we are talking about a world of drama and action. The story begins with a series of events about the novice fireman trying to earn respect for his older brother and other firefighters while he was involved in investigating a series of cremation and murder every night. We may refer here to the life of firefighters and what they do to carry out their tasks on a large scale in the field of fireworks and other dangerous acts.
7 February 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 August 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 April 1959, Burbank, California, USA
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 September 1963, Murray, Kentucky, USA
June 13, 1929 in Cook, Illinois, USA
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.
September 23, 2010
Ron Howard popcorn-muncher is sappy, not smokin'.
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.
November 21, 2016
...a top-notch thriller trapped within a poorly-paced and needlessly bloated piece of work...
January 16, 2009
Backdraft may not be a very good movie, but it sure is great entertainment.
February 05, 2008
Visually, pic often is exhilarating, but it's shapeless and dragged down by corny, melodramatic characters and situations.
July 26, 2014
Absolutely fantastic setpieces strung along an absolutely dimwitted script.
January 01, 2000
Backdraft is sure to do for fire what The Poseidon Adventure did for water.
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).
February 05, 2008
Backdraft has some of the raw filmmaking excitement that has been missing from Howard's recent work.
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.