Review of Wildfire

Wildfire (1988)
2/10
Get outa town. My husband knows.
20 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Trashy low budget thriller about ex-con Steve Bauer going back to see his ex, Linda Fiorentino, getting out of prison for attempting a convenience store robbery. We're supposed to care about these people because we saw them meeting as an orphanage when they were kids, and the fact that she's pregnant with his kid when he's sent to prison, but there's nothing about them remotely interesting let alone spending 90 minutes caring about their story. These characters are so poorly formulated that you can't believe the actors could ever find a realistic way to play them.

Will Patton plays Fiorentino's husband, angry when she tells him that Bauer is back in her life, and next thing you know she's left him to go find her real mother when Bauer tells her that he's located her for her. An ugly bunch of people in a badly written story that after a while isn't even fun to watch as trashy exploration. Mama's a trashy bar hostess wearing a skirt the size of a dish rag to serve customers. This is the type of film you need a shower to watch afterwards to get the filth off of. Maybe if they chose to create an actual plot rather than show these soulless people making mistake after mistake.
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