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A simple, suspenseful, and moving premise.
But the story is filled with booby traps when it comes to adapting it for the screen.
He plays Andy McGee, father to the pyrokinetically gifted 11-year-old Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong).
That might have been an interesting setup in a world where the actors were actually given something to do.
Here, they seem to have been forbidden from emoting.
But for this actor, the choice is fatal.
It all feels like an afterthought.
In Kings novel, Rainbird is a scarred, perverted, scheming psycho with a bizarre death wish.
Perhaps whats most dispiriting about thisFirestarteris how visually impoverished it is.
Was it a budget thing?
