Firehead (1991)

Director:

Peter Yuval

Writers:

Jeffrey Mandel (writer)
Peter Yuval (writer)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Tagline:

The Power to Destroy the World...And the Will to Save It

Plot:

A government agent assigns a scientist to help one of his agents track down a Russian defector who is a cyborg...

Plot Keywords:

Paranormal | Cyborg | Pyrokinesis | Telekinesis | Independent Film

Cast

Christopher Plummer	...	Colonel Garland Vaughn
Chris Lemmon	...	Warren Hart
Brett Porter	...	Ivan Tibor
Gretchen Becker	...	Melia Buchanan
Martin Landau	...	Admiral Pendleton
George Elliot	...	Fallbright
Edmund Kearney	...	The President (as Ed Kearney)
Douglas Simms	...	Taggart
Lauren Levy	...	Smith
Ralph Sims	...	Shaw
Thomas C. Smith-Alden	...	Devries (as Thomas Alden-Smith)
Eugene Walters	...	Simon
Robert MacDowell	...	Spector
Graham Timbes	...	Russian Commander
Ann Thornton	...	Reporter

Runtime:

88 min | Germany:80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Germany:12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Mobile, Alabama, USA

Company:

Action International Pictures (AIP)

Soundtrack:

Firehead

Combines elements of hunt for red october and batman, drawing much from neither.

I bought this movie for the cover. Unfortunately, I had to take the whole thing. I used to think you could never go wrong buying movies sporting a flaming hammer and sickle, but apparently my logic is flawed. It opens as our hero, an obvious reject for the HeMan live action movie, helps a russian woman and her children evade certain death by moving them five feet to the left. The movie after this point kind of degenerates. For some reason, the military hire a chemist to track down this ne'er do well, who is in America blowing stuff up with his eyes which, coincedentally, shoot lightning bolts. Apparently, he only does this on days that are prime numbers and this ability doesn't work on shoddily assembled chain link fences. Not that he was in any real danger, the only person in this movie who could shoot straight was me, and I'll miss that TV. The most interesting part of this movie was the 15 minutes after the credits, where I stared at a blank screen expecting an apology. If you decide to watch this movie, The Bull recommends doing it drunk, preferably on vodka, and far enough over the hill you won't remember it.