Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Not too bad for a lesser Hollywood movie with no big screen names(Ice-T don't count). It's got the usual amount of bloopers that you can expect from a such a movie. It also got the usual amounts of flaws in how things are done, like a fire rescue team running into a burning and smoking building without the proper equipment, kinda like "firemen Rambos".The storyline could have been better, but I've seen worse in some of the major hit movies the last 10 years. However, the movie does have a "tv movie" feel to it, with some of the acting and how it's shot.As for the cast, some of them I would have expected more from, while others that are more unknown does a rather good job.But overall, if you manage to ignore the bloopers and errors, it's an enjoyable film to watch when you're out of the "major name" movies. Just grab the popcorn and enjoy.

This movie is a page out of movie history, it first came out as 'Striking distance' the cop car chase scene in the beginning is exactly the same as the chase scene in 'Striking distance' complete with the cars rolling down the embankment at the end of the chase (I thought the bad guy was going to get out and shoot Ice T). Oh by the way, what happens to Ice T later on in the movie? . Then as the movie progresses, it turns into 'City on fire' a disastrous disaster movie from 1979 complete with scenes right out of 'City of fire'. I mean the actual scenes in 'City on fire' were cut and pasted into 'Ablaze'. Like the scene where the nurse opens the closet door and gets smoked. I wonder how they got away with that? I was waiting for Shelly Winters to make a cameo. (They could of cut and pasted her to!). What a Bomb!

This film is a waste of time. Much of the footage was taken from the 1979 film,City on fire,starring Leslie Nielson,. Ice-T had very few lines. Go to the video store and rent the original,City on fire, with better cast. Leave Ablaze alone, not worth watching,a waste of time.

..::**Possible Spoilers**::.. I remember browsing the shelf at Movie World, and me, being a fireman, my eye caught the cover. It looked good. The cover is the only good thing about this piece of trash. I knew something was wrong when you could see the stunt mans "goo". Next thing I know, our "heros" pull up in an outdated piece of crap, and run in with next to no gear on. They would have been just as well of dousing themselves in gasoline before running inside. The plot dissolved after the beginning credits rolled, and after the ending credits, still wonder what happened to the arsonist plot. I think the PFD on their helmets stands for "Pretend Fire Department" because everything they could have done wrong in this movie is done wrong. It's weird how you can leave they leave the station in a Ward, then shows them responding with what looks like European apparatus, and even shows a tiller (where the heck did this come from) and then they pull up to the scene in a totally different rig. In one scene, you can see Jonny and Roy pull up in squad 51 (tv show emergency!) I think they used more stock footage than actual footage they taped themselves. Chessy one liners, innacurate statements, the list goes on and on. This piece of trash should be lit ablaze.