Burn it down!
A woman is seeking revenge after her boyfriend’s sister was killed by a group of evil young men who make snuff movies. What they don’t know is that she is a pyromancer. Now she wants them to burn, and she meets other people with special powers, making them members of the X-Men. But it’s not that easy to kill the leader of the sadistic group of sick men, as he knows powerful and corrupt people. Two police detectives are trying to find the pyromancer, one of whom is a loose cannon because something terrible happened with his sick brother when he was a little kid.
I loved Firestarter when I grew up in the 80s, and I was curious about Pyrokinesis, also known as Crossfire, to see if it could capture some of the same magic as Firestarter. And I have to say it delivered a fun but at the same time irritating journey.
My biggest gripe with the movie is how stupid the police are and that no one is stopping the corrupt cop who can do as he pleases without any repercussions. The smart police detective woman is a character with a pure heart, but she’s so passive and irritating when the evidence can’t be clearer, yet she doesn’t do much to help the protagonist. It’s so irritating and unreal, but ‘unreal’ is not the right word to use when we are following a HOT pyromancer who is indeed smoking hot and cute! Akiko Yada is mighty fine and deadly HOT in Pyrokinesis. She isn’t a great actress, but in a movie like Pyrokinesis, she works fine as she is HOT and mighty fine! She set my heart on fire!
What surprised me the most were the CGI effects that do the job and more than that. There’s also a cool, big explosion towards the movie’s end that rocks hard! And even though the plot is pretty predictable and half stupid, the movie is entertaining and has that cool atmosphere that I like. It’s a pretty dark movie, and I was happy with the result.
Pyrokinesis, also known as Crossfire, is an entertaining movie with a HOT Akiko Yada and a not-so-hot man who looks like a caveman. And cavemen are not sexy! But even though I was entertained from start to end, it’s a movie that could have toned down the stupidity of the cops and the irritating main villain. I was hoping that the protagonist would kill them all. Just let the world burn, and you and me, baby, can be the only ones left, you burning, HOT woman!