Hey everyone and may I say welcome to my summer special preferably named TOASTY OVERDRIVE; reviewing films that know how to turn up the heat first off Fireball.
We start off being introduced to the film’s antagonist Taylor “The Fuse” Draven (played by Aleks Paunovic) a pro football star that’s now suspended for drug use. Over his car radio we hear a key plot-point that Draven may have been taking special steroids that are keyed to his DNA. Draven stops at a gas station unaware he’s being followed by a news reporter Tim Timmonds (played by Colin Cunningham). Timmonds proceeds to harass Draven until he finally snaps and beats the reporter with his own camera until the police arrived and arrest him. Damn eat your heart out Quarantine. Later at a Cedar Hills courthouse Draven has been placed in local custody until he’s picked up by a federal agent to escort him to federal court. At a local jail where Draven is held a fire breaks out with him still locked up. The fire crew arrives at the jailhouse immediately and the fire is put out. Here we’re introduced to Ava Williams (played by Lexa Doig) a fire inspector and Lee Cooper (played by Ian Somerhalder) a federal agent whom both arrived at the scene. And may I say Lee sure is doing his best John Steed. The fire crew finds Draven among the wreckage with 90% of his body burned. You’ll start to cut scenes of his cells beginning to grow rapidly; another key plot-point. The following night at the hospital Draven recovers and shockingly fully healed and yet his hair hasn’t grown back. He takes out a nurse and escapes out of the hospital after which a car stops in front him and spontaneously explodes. The next day Draven arrives at his wife’s house just as a BBQ grill next to her explodes; Ava and Lee arrived at the scene to find Draven’s wife burned alive. Later at a truck stop, Draven steals a truck driver’s clothes and took his truck. Heh, play Grand Theft Auto much? Draven tracks down the judge from the Cedar Hills courthouse and proceeds to run him down until there’s another explosion which kills the judge.
Ava and Lee came up with the conclusion that Draven has the ability to create fire by sweating. Basically when his sweat touches oxygen instant ka-boom. Ava and Lee believe that Timmonds may be Draven’s next target; so they immediately head to a motel to guard him. Unfortunately it doesn’t go as well as Draven arrives at the motel room causing everything to burn including Timmonds. Lee and the local PD try to stop him but when you’re going up against a guy who can create fire and explosions. The odds are not in your favor; Draven disarms the cops and immediately escapes. The next day Ava comes to the conclusion that the steroids Dravens’ been taking have altered his blood chemistry. Basically when his starts to superheat he doesn’t burn up but instead causing his tissue to rebuild themselves rapidly. They’ve located Draven at Old Logging Road route 49 and proceed to halt his fire by smothering him tons of sand. But again guy who creates fire odds are not in your favor. So Draven superheats the sand turning it into glass and breaks loose. Ava and Lee make a run for it in their SUV with Draven on their tail performing his personal HADOKEN on the SUV. Ava and Lee got out of the SUV in time before the fireball hits. Lee somehow makes a conclusion that Draven is heading to a Nuclear Power Plant again somehow. While Lee tells the man in charge to shut down the plant, Draven arrives at the plant and kills the security team. They got the reactor core to shut down but Draven manages to get on top of the core and starts to re-heat the core. Lee conflicts Draven to distract him from re-heating the core. The distraction works and Draven chases after him to the interior core room where once inside they can suck out the oxygen permanently turning off The Fuse. Lee and Draven arrive in the interior core room with Ava following behind to seal the room completely. With the oxygen being suck out of the room, Draven continues to re-heat the core. The film ends with Lee pushing Draven into the core; while mid-fall Draven’s body began to breakdown and eventually explodes.
My Final Verdict: This film is...OK it looks cheap but at least not lazy cheap as most direct-to-DVD Sci-Fi films are nowadays. I’m not gonna this film got some good standout dialogues that actually makes you laugh. The fire effects are pretty impressive although there are a couple CG moments in the film that are poorly done but it doesn’t bother me too much. So I say give this film a browse look it up on Netflix or stop by at a video store.
So let’s continue on with this special as I review Fire Serpent. Until next time stay tuned.
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