Film Review – Fire with Fire

“Fire with Fire” is a vigilante tale with a butch title (though
filmgoers of a certain age will undoubtedly recall a 1986 Virginia
Madsen picture of the same name and its screechy Wild Blue theme song),
though nothing especially harsh occurs during the movie. Attracting a
wide range of talent and celebrity, the effort has the goods to
transform into an unrelenting machine of thrills, smacking the audience
around with displays of intimidation and bloodthirsty revenge. The
actual feature spends much of its run time in neutral with actors either
unprepared for the demands of the subgenre or locked in paycheck mode,
stiffly working through tepid dialogue, tedious procedural events, and
dull romantic yearnings. There’s potential here for the taking, but
nobody in the production seems all that inspired to kick “Fire with
Fire” into overdrive. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com