Wildfire 7: The Inferno

Tracey Gold plays a woman incarcerated for manslaughter -wrongly so -who while in prison volunteers for smoke jumper training and despite brushes with the hard -nosed trainer rises to become the leader of a smoke jumper team .This is sent into action to combat a conflagration in which her estranged 10 year old daughter is caught .Can she douse the fire ,hold together her squabbling team and rebuild her relationship with the daughter ? These are the key questions in the movie and they are resolved in the way you would expect .

Budgetary constraints lead to overly obvious use of stock footage which is at least consisitent with the stock characters as portrayed in the teleplay .The acting is consistent with the standard expected of the telemovie-in short competent but not striking -and if you can ignore the low budget and lack of any originality this is okay as a time passer

I bought a copy of this on DVD in a video store in my hometown. The cover promised hilarity, and while the film is *murderously* slow for the first half (most of the hilarity coming only from the dialogue and the relationship between Nell and the 'Boss', who is a total hard-ass for the sole reason that the film needs one), things really pick up once the creepy Uncle Nick and the 8-bit, poorly-rendered hovering fires arrive. Films like these, when they hit their stride, are far funnier than any intentional comedy. Sadly, Wildfire 7 kind of wallows in mediocrity for the most part. The last half hour, though, is truly stunning.

A '6' in terms of it being laughably bad. A '1' if you pick this up expecting to see a half-decent movie (though really, why would you?).

I'm not sure what the worst part of this movie was, the hack direction, the lame writing, the preposterous plot, the wooden acting, or all of the rest. They say if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. I can't say anything nice.

the mother is the worst character of all time. she does not need binoculars to see the huge forest fire beneath her. I've watched this three times because it is so bad that it is good. it is funnier than most comedies. this movie is a total farce. when putting out a forest fire wildfire 7 should be advised that patting a few leaves seemingly miles from the fire is likely inneffective. making a tree bridge inches above roaring flames is a terrible technique to get round a forest fire. lamb chops are cooked in a similar way. why was a murderer (wrongly accused or not) thought suitable to lead a "crack" fire fighting squad? she must have lied on her CV. its really hard to make fire fighting look uncool, but this film exceeds at it.

Very slow. Predictable.

I like tracey Gold but not in this kind of a part.