An adaptation that will simply be forgotten sooner rather than later. If you've never read the original book on which this movie is loosely based, it's still a relatively ok movie. But there is the book and the magnificent adaptation of the 80s, so this is just a botch. Too many things from the book never happened in this movie, too many memorable scenes from the book and even from the later 80's adaptation here never happened. They have the perfect example of how to make a great adaptation with the 1984 movie, and they got carried away and ended up doing this "thing". A big disappointment.

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I've seen the original several times and people on here are acting like the original is soooo much better...give me a break...get up with the times it's a modern day take on a classic novel...they casted the little girl perfect and this just had a good feel to the whole thing...I'm sick of people who want to be edgy and "hip" acting like remakes aren't good...serious enjoy movies for what they are....and btw CHARLIE ISNT BUlLETPROOF LIKE THE STUPID FIRST MOVIE! READ THE DAMN BOOK!...half hour longer cause of the experiments....drew Barrymore was also dumb enough to get caught? And fell for rainbirds bs...yawn....not in this movie.

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It is as bad as the other reviews described it. Feels more like a made for tv show. Terrible screenplay, bad direction. The film should have not been made.

Firestarter (1984) was not great but I did enjoy it this remake is a prime example of how to make an average film a bad film. The casting is pretty poor and the rest well its awful really perplexed to who approves these awful movies we are constantly having thrown at us.

Writer Scott Teems sure did a terrible job on Stephen King's novel with his convoluted and uninspiring screenplay. Even newb director Keith Thomas made matters worse with the sub-par directing. Casting and performances were great, although a waste of talent for such an underwhelming production, and it's a shame, because had Teems invited a seasoned writer to look over his screenplay and make adjustments, this could've easily been much better. Even the normally comfortable 94 min runtime felt much longer with the dragged out scenes and pacing. The best part was Carpenters score at the end. It's a generous 6/10 from me.

I don't know how I sat through this whole film. It kept getting worse as it went on. Felt like I was watching the Hallmark version of Firestarter. The acting was atrocious. Especially Zach Efron, he was terrible in this. Like in the scene where she kills the cat 🤣🤣. What the hell was that lol..So bad. This is definitely not a film I'd recommend.

Lately when I watch a new movie, I ask myself "how would this movie be without it's special effects?". Too many movies get by on shiney and sparkley colors on the screen for a large part of the movie. If you do that here, you don't even have an average movie. What happened to Hollywood in terms of smart writing? I'd throw acting in there too, but I think it's unfair to judge actors when they have the scripts and writing they're dealing with now. I'm not even sure how they can say many of the lines with a straight face, so that's impressive I guess. If you literally have nothing else to do, this would be ok to have on in the background.

I love horror movies, I watch them all the time. This is the worst horror movie I've seen this year. Zac Efron should be ashamed of himself, they must've paid him very well for this garbage. This seems like a B movie. Like something similar to a Lifetime movie, except those movies are better than this, so I guess that makes this a C or D movie. This is what happens though when you focus on other things rather than a good story. 2/10 really bad.