Perfect cast and a good story

good back-story, and good acting

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is the feature film directorial debut of David Barrett. I hope to God that he did not direct another movie. Everything about the movie is cringe-worthy. I love myself a , villain gets the living s@*t kicked out of him, type of movie but this one is not it. This one is just cringe-worthy.The cast might sound like a who's who of cinema but none of them actually bothered to show up. Bruce Willis phones in a five minute role probably as a personal favor to the producer 50 Cent. With Vincent D'Onofrio you never know whether it is actually him or he got his wax replica to substitute for him. This one is the latter. Josh Duhamel has a face tailor-made for wax museums. As if there were not enough cringe-worthy actors the Director decided to add Vinny Jones and Rosario Dawson to the mix.There is this one scene in which Duhamel is trying to break into a location owned by the villain D'Onofrio. He cuts the chain on the door making sure that it does not make any noise lest it alerts the villains cronies. Then he lets the door close behind him with a bang. *facepalm*.It's so badly directed that it is laughable. The dialogues are so cringe-worthy that they make you want to mute the television and read the subtitles instead. Horrible. Cringe-worthy. An embarrassment to movie-making. With these type of revenge movies you generally wish that the villain meets with a horrible end and the lovers meet in the end and live together happily thereafter. In this one you wish that everyone associated with the movie meets a horrible end for wasting your 90 minutes. No redeeming features whatsoever.

Not worth watching. Bruce Willis is completely not necessary in that movie because he is doing nothing at all. The "Hero" transforms into a killing machine after shooting some cans in the forest, yea right. But the worst is the end. He burns down a house and several gangsters with 2 bottles of some inflammable liquids. That was one of the worst final scenes I have ever seen. It looks like the villains took a bath in that gas before they entered the building and walls and stairways made of stone do burn like paper and of course everything explodes because it is gas station but I didn't recognize that. Summary: If this would have been an ad for some barbecue lighter then it was great but it wasn't. Stupid movie for simple people. Not even worth for Willis Fans. Now after this review I am asking myself why I still gave it 5/10 it should have been 3-4 at max. Probably because I am a Bruce Willis fan.

Fire with Fire is a dumb action film. The word DUMB needs to be emphasised.Rookie writer Tom O'Connor must had won the lottery getting the film green-lit because it needed several more re-drafts. It is about a fireman Jeremy (Josh Duhamel) who witnesses a murder by an Aryan gang boss Hagan (Vincent D'Onofrio)and ends up in witness protection but Hagan is still able to get to him.Hagan and his gang which features Englishman Vinnie Jones nearly kills his girlfriend and goes after his work colleagues. Jeremy decides to fight fire with fire and hunt Hagan down himself. Bruce Willis plays a cop trying to protect Jeremy.The film The Exterminator from over 30 years ago had schlock, gory fun with the vigilante film conventions. This was just tedious, dull and stupid. People talk or go after their loved ones when they should be shooting bad guys. Duhamel is wooden, Willis has nothing to do, at least D'Onoforio hams it up suitably.

Review: What the hell was Bruce Willis doing in this film? Anyway, the film has a pretty average revenge plot with nothing special happening throughout. It seemed like it was made for TV because its really basic and the acting was quite average. The thing that gets me is that these directors are really not taking advantage of the fact that they have these top actors. They keep on bringing out these stupid movies with terrible plots, not realising who they are working with. The ending of this movie was terrible and the white fire cracked me up. Once I knew that 50 Cent & Vinnie Jones was in this film, I knew just what to expect, so it didn't surprise me that it went straight to DVD. There isn't any twists or anything clever with the storyline and I just couldn't wait for it to end. Terrible!Round-Up: Like everyone else, when you see Bruce Willis I'm the cast, you just have to watch it, but this was one movie that I wish that I didn't watch. The leading actor wasn't bad in Transformers, so I won't totally put the blame on him. It is definitely the directors fault who should have known that this film was going to be a flop. It was a bit weird seeing Bruce Willis in a thriller/action movie, not getting involved in the actually nitty gritty of the movie. All he done was sit behind a desk in the police station, which made the movie even worse. It also could have done without the love story, which just made things complicated, but it wasn't the major thing wrong with the movie. I think you can tell that I wasn't that impressed.Budget: $20million Worldwide Gross: $5millionI recommend this movie to people who are into there thriller/action movies about someone who witnesses a murder and is threatened to be killed if he testifies. 2/10