Firecrackers

I really recommend seeing this movie, it's absolutly brilliant! It captures every moment and emotion perfectly without being over dramatic. Absolutely beautiful composition, watch it!

Are two lead actresses (Evans, Kurimsky) have very limited acting backgrounds, but did well, perhaps because their roles as older teens not happy w/pretty much everything except each other (well, most of the time) were natural fits. An indicator of the turmoil & trouble they go through w/parents, boyfriends as they try to escape town is dialogue in which four letter obscenties & similar words comprise 40% of the screen time; add in others (mostly males) it jumps to about 60%. Setting was low income; low education, gritty in your face. Ending not clear, but seems that leaving doesn't remove the source of the problems.

Where to begin reviewing this disastrous film? First of all, do we really need another movie about kids acting badly? It's been over done, and done much better than this. The writing is absolutely atrocious. Nothing original here. And the dialogue. Is it "edgy" when the kids can't complete a sentence without using the F-bomb at least once?

The acting is pretty mediocre. Not terrible, just nothing out of the ordinary. And don't get me started on the camerawork. Okay, I'll start. It looks like it was filmed with an iPhone. I know, that's supposed to make it look slice-of-lifey. FAIL. Honestly it just makes it hard to watch

I could keep going but let me leave it at this. Once again, it got a 6.0 rating because friends and family boosted the ratings. That's petty obvious. I rarely quit a movie half way through but in this case I made an exception. What an epic waste of time.

--MovieJunkieMark.

The movie begins on a promising note but fades into a nothing every passing minute. It is so directionless that you begin to wonder as to if the scriptwriter the director were either sleepy or drunk when they wrote and made the movie. Total piece of trash and such a waste of my Saturday evening. Wish I rather saw some trash on Netflix that would probably be more entertaining than this. Save yourself the trouble!!

I love Larry Clark movies and the whole genre of 'real' teen movies, which this movie fits into. But Firecrackers is boring, the characters aren't interesting, and there's nothing disturbing about it. It's just bleh. It would look real if the actresses didn't look like actresses, but that's the best thing I can say for it.