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Firestarter 2: Rekindled

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Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002)
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A young woman who has the ability to start fires with her mind, must now face the trauma of her childhood by battling with a group of very talented children and their cruel leader, John Rain... Read allA young woman who has the ability to start fires with her mind, must now face the trauma of her childhood by battling with a group of very talented children and their cruel leader, John Rainbird.A young woman who has the ability to start fires with her mind, must now face the trauma of her childhood by battling with a group of very talented children and their cruel leader, John Rainbird.
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  • Stars
    • Marguerite Moreau
    • Malcolm McDowell
    • Dennis Hopper
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  • Stars
    • Marguerite Moreau
    • Malcolm McDowell
    • Dennis Hopper
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    • 59User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Marguerite Moreau in Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002)
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    Marguerite Moreau
    Marguerite Moreau
    • Charlene 'Charlie' McGee
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    Malcolm McDowell
    Malcolm McDowell
    • John Rainbird
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    • James Richardson
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Danny Nucci
    Danny Nucci
    • Vincent Sforza
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Skye McCole Bartusiak
    Skye McCole Bartusiak
    • Young Charlie McGee
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    John Dennis Johnston
    John Dennis Johnston
    • Joel Lowen
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Darnell Williams
    • Gil
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Ron Perkins
    Ron Perkins
    • Special Agent Pruitt
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Deborah Van Valkenburgh
    Deborah Van Valkenburgh
    • Mary Conant
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Dan Byrd
    Dan Byrd
    • Paul
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Travis Charitan
    • Cody
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Scotty Cox
    Scotty Cox
    • Andrew
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Emmett Shoemaker
    • Edward
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Devon Alan
    Devon Alan
    • Max
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Eric Jacobs
    • Jack
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Charles Grueber
    • Mr. Slowze
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Jeremy Hoop
    Jeremy Hoop
    • Henry Sforza
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
    Micaela Nelligan
    Micaela Nelligan
    • Sarah Bill
    2 episodes2 eps • 2002
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    • Trivia
      In the town of Rivermead, there is a movie marquee listing the movie "Santa Ana", starring Eve Watterson; Eve Watterson was a production manager on this miniseries.
    • Goofs
      Rainbird says he has been searching for Charlie for 10 years; since the explosion at the shop took place in 1989, this would mean the story takes place in 1999. But Charlie was born in 1980, and she is supposed to be 20 years old in the current events, making the story take place in 2000/2001. Vincent's computer gives the exact date for one of the days: April 29, 2001.
    • Quotes

      John Rainbird: [sitting on street bench] More than I, if truth were told, / Have stood and sweated hot and cold, / And through their reins in ice and fire / Fear contended with desire. Agued once like me were they / I like them shall win my way / Lastly to the bed of mould / Where there's neither heat nor cold. But from my grave across my brow / Plays no wind of healing now, / And fire and ice within me fight / Beneath the suffocating night.

    • Connections
      Follows Firestarter (1984)

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    5/10
    Bad story for a sequel.
    Is this movie even an official sequel? I ask so because this movie totally ignores events from the previous movie and simply blatantly even alters things.

    This movie is filled with some flashbacks, that however don't make any sense when you have already seen the first movie. It completely ignores some fact from the first movie as well as actual moments that we did see happening. Who knows, perhaps this is all more faithful to the actual Stephen King novel but just don't call your movie "Firestarter 2: Rekindled" when you are taking a totally different approach with the story and completely ignore the stuff from the earlier 1984 movie.

    "Firestarter" had a pretty much closed ending. All of the bad guys died and Charlie McGee eventually ended up well. But guess what, apparently the bad guy didn't die at all. He just altered. He now suddenly looks like Malcolm McDowell with a half burned face, instead of George C. Scott, who played the villain John Rainbird in the first movie. But if you have seen the first movie you know that it's pretty much a solid fact that there is no way the character could still be alive, or at least could definitely not look as 'well' as Malcolm McDowell did. It reminded me of the way they brought back the Durant character in all of the Darkman sequels. Couldn't they simply come up with a fresh new villain?

    But this is the foremost problem with this movie; it's a sequel without any imagination or good ideas. Here you have a movie in which your main character has the ability to put everything on fire with her telekinetic powers, as well as a bunch of other persons with X-Men like powers. Plenty of awesome ingredients and potential to play around with you would imaging but strangely enough the only thing they could come up with was letting the main character accidentally put stuff on fire every time she was getting too excited during sex. So great, she can never have an orgasm. An excellent subject for a science-fiction/thriller, you guys!

    They really didn't come up with anything good or exciting, which is really the most disappointing thing about this movie and its story. But I still don't really know either what the main plot was supposed to be all about. Why does John Rainbird want to create super humans? And why does he need Charlie McGee for that so badly? What makes her so exceptional? Even though the movie is about 3 hours long (it can also be aired as a mini-series) nothing is really ever explained well enough, which also makes this movie a real unsatisfying one by the end, as well as just a pointless sequel and movie in general.

    Also really don't understand why Dennis Hopper showed up in this. He plays a real boring character, that also really doesn't add anything to the story and could easily had been left out. It also would had been nice if they actually cast someone who somewhat looked like Drew Barrymore, who played the main lead in the movie but instead they casted brunette Marguerite Moreau. The acting in this movie was not all that bad though, which probably prevented it from ever becoming a truly bad and ridicules one.

    No, I really don't want to sound like I completely hated it. It's definitely watchable all, in the long run. You probably have seen way worse than this movie but a better story should had really made this movie at least somewhat remotely exciting and original to watch.

    You're really way better off watching just and only the first movie, which wasn't even that great of a movie in the first place either.

    5/10

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    • Release date
      • March 10, 2002 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Sci-Fi Channel (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Firestarter: Part 2
    • Filming locations
      • Ogden, Utah, USA
    • Production companies
      • USA Films
      • Traveler's Rest Films
      • USA Cable Network
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 50 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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