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5.1/10
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A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.
Juan Jaramillo
- Tough Guerilla
- (as Juan Garcia Jaramillo)
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
- Big Man
- (as Miguel Fuentes)
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In addition to being for the entire family, Firewalker is a roller coaster ride that will leave you wanting more. Hold on to your seats, folks, because this movie's actions sequences will leave you breathless. It has it's highs and lows -- it's ups and downs. And at the end, you may not be able to say that you can walk through fire, but at least you'll be able to say that you've seen the firewalker.
And don't take my word for it! The Sixty Second Review called it "Dazzling" and "Action-packed."
Go out and rent it today!
And don't take my word for it! The Sixty Second Review called it "Dazzling" and "Action-packed."
Go out and rent it today!
...of running a Jeep into a huge water-hole in the middle of the desert?I don't know, but Chuck Norris did in this surprisingly funny flick. It seems people either like it or hate it. Granted, it's no classic, but it is funny (not hilarious) and the whole family can watch it together. It has some pretty good gags (like our two heroes dressed up in priestly frocks) and one liners ("You'll still be bald"). It's a good example of efficient 80's film making. Don't expect a bloated CGI filled Speilberg epic. Firewalker is just plain fun.
In the '80s Golan Globus made many action oriented movies that were entertaining and easy to enjoy. This one is another one of their movies that features Chuck Norris.
These guys sure had the formula down. They were the Asylum of those days, borrowing ideas from other A list movies and making a spoof. The quality of this one is one of the best out of all the movies they've made. There's plot, there's story, and there're the actors.
If not high on seriousness, the movie is high on entertainment value.
World really looked different in the '80s. Things were much more light hearted. I'm not sure if the world we live in today is better than it was back then.
Nice effort on the part of the producers, and the actors did just fine. One of the better Chuck Norris film from the '80s.
These guys sure had the formula down. They were the Asylum of those days, borrowing ideas from other A list movies and making a spoof. The quality of this one is one of the best out of all the movies they've made. There's plot, there's story, and there're the actors.
If not high on seriousness, the movie is high on entertainment value.
World really looked different in the '80s. Things were much more light hearted. I'm not sure if the world we live in today is better than it was back then.
Nice effort on the part of the producers, and the actors did just fine. One of the better Chuck Norris film from the '80s.
No matter how bad a movie may be to most people someone is going to like it, and I like this one. Not the greatest film ever made by a long shot, for me it has a certain charm to it. I think Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr both do great jobs and work well and complement each other. The story has them going after a bunch of gold. Along the way they run into many obstacles. This movie for me has a nice combination of action and humor, and it is definitely more fun if you don't take it too seriously. Despite the fact it is rated so low though I saw it is worth a look...but you may want to read the other reviews here first.
"Firewalker" is more than a bit of a mess. Like most movies from the Cannon studio, it's not low budget enough to dip into Ed Wood land, but not well done enough to rise to a major studio production. The sets are cheap and the story is not much more than a vaguely connected series of scenes referencing better films--but I think the filmmakers were well aware of these and other shortcomings and set a self effacing, tongue in cheek tone from the start. Though as sloppy and slapdash as most of director J. Lee Thompson's other 80's efforts, "Firewalker" shows Thompson turning these attributes to his advantage and giving us a breezy, goofy, self-aware-yet-totally-clueless, low budget pop culture gem. I don't think anyone was under the impression that they were making the next "Raiders of the Lost Ark," they just wanted to give us some old fashioned fun. I mean, an Academy Award winner costarring with CHUCK NORRIS? How could it not be great in its own way? And while we're on the subject, this is one of the few films where you couldn't call Norris "Old Stone Face." In this film Chuck gives one of his liveliest, most natural performances ever--almost charming. Too bad he didn't work with Thompson more often.
Did you know
- TriviaChuck Norris and Louis Gossett, Jr. have their stars back to back on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- GoofsThroughout the movie, Coyote's eye-patch switches from one eye to the other.
This movie is a comedy.
- Alternate versionsTV versions omit the scene in Max's apartment and the fight sequence in the burnt-out town.
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- Also known as
- Feuerwalze
- Filming locations
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,949,484
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,130,323
- Nov 23, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $11,949,484
- Runtime
- 1h 45m(105 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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