Lord, your head is burning. They were brothers and loved a girl. But when she made her choice, they parted ways. One remained in a small town, the other, rejected, preferred nomadic life in the capito of rides, changing into a clown costume. So my brother came back. This is the beginning of this book.
In fact, the whole story revolves around this story. The only difference is that the writer placed the main characters in an unusual environment of relationships, giving the brothers the gift of pyrokinesis. Therefore, the whole film will always be on the screen something will burn, explode and sparkle. The brothers have different attitudes towards their gifts. One, Wilder, (Arliss Howard) tries to hide him from everyone around him, fearing that the authorities will conduct a coercive investigation of him (“put a probe in his ass,” as he says). The second, Wallis, (Quade), on the contrary, is not shy about showing it, and even included a show of his abilities in his show. Both of them are connected by a secret - in childhood they became the culprits of setting fire to a house in which there was a person who died. Only, again, the attitude of the brothers to this event is exactly the opposite. Wilder blames himself for perfect evil, the more selfish Wallis does not bother with it at all. He is psychologically much more unbalanced. He even burned his brother’s hair in a fit of rage.
The main stumbling block, a woman named Vida (Debra Winger), generally behaves strangely in the relationship between the two brothers. On the one hand, we can see how she shows her love for Wilder. On the other hand, she easily falls into the arms of Wallis, after which all the fuss and flares up.
Separately, I want to talk about special effects. Although they are one direction, they are made by conscience. Here you and instantly floating candles, and burned from the inside air conditioner, and self-ignition cigarettes, and the final flurry of fire when the two brothers meet in a decisive battle. And most importantly - in most cases it is a real fire (in rare cases drawn, such as fireballs in the hands), and not made on a computer, albeit good, but graphics.
Only the script itself is slightly unclear. If it weren’t for all this pyro-relationship, there wouldn’t be anything in this movie to pay attention to. Humor here, perhaps, is just in the behavior of the clown. There is an unhealthy confrontation between two brothers for the sake of a woman who is morally far from ideal.
6 out of 10