Misteraser Critics,are you kidding us

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

rael This film raises eyebrows. Then puts them down. It has people in it that you're familiar with, like Jane Wiedlin (Go-Go's), Kathleen Wilhoite (Angel Heart), Karen Black (Easy Rider), the latter being the most professional of all. It has a story, but it isn't really interested in telling it to you: there's trouble in a family, a blond guy belittles his younger brother for wanting to play piano in a circus show. The star of the show is in trouble too, she's in tight grip of her master. What could've happened if somebody was to rip off Twin Peaks, Santa Sangre & Requiem for a Dream? This... BUT: The scenes drag - total length almost 2 hours - why? Actors look lost as if directed in wrong places. Dialog - boring filler (had this film been silent, it'd be better). Shocks - don't shock. The good points now - Mike Patton. He looks as if he tries hard to have fun playing his characters, even though he's no actor. Photography is very good and rich. And the "humorous bits" in Firecracker are actually pretty funny. Just for Mike Patton completists only. Sorry guys, hope your next movies are better.

notokay19 "Firecracker" is the kind of film that never really appeals to a specific group of people. It doesn't really fit easily into any genre, and isn't the kind of movie that will enthrall those seeking simple entertainment from any film-going experience."Firecracker" is much more than any film, because not only is it genre-less, but it transcends the rules of any genre and becomes incredibly engaging.Jimmy is a teen who just wants to be left to his own devices. He wishes to play piano, but is forced to hold back by his tormentor; his older brother David. David screams and yells, beats and rapes. And then something happens. A murder occurs in the secrecy of the White home.So many people will despise this film, but there is nothing here to hate, I believe. Jimmy's world is black and white, but the amazing carnival he visits is an amazing palette of colors. The characters are all unique, yet oddly similar (some actors play more than one character, but for good reason).There are many words that express this film; beautiful, twisted, dark, colorful, intense, real, gorgeous. But there is only one word that I believe really reaches the core of what this film is: HYPNOTIC.

MorganMan1 This has to be the biggest waste of time that ever called itself a movie. It's one of perhaps 5 movies that I would never sit through, even for money. The only one in our family that seemed to enjoy it is our cross-eyed cat. It kept turning its head side ways until it finally fell over. Blockbuster should be ashamed of putting this movie on its shelf. I hated it and so did my dog, it causes him to hike his leg every time he hears the word "Firecracker" now. Karen Black was awful in this movie. The movie had no story line and looks like the local High School drama club shot it on a hand held home movie camera. The cast had no direction and the acting was pitiful. What a waste of time and four dollars.

lanewooten Firecracker probably would have been watchable if I was a cinematography student since I could tell a lot went into the making of the movie from a director's standpoint. However, since I am not a cinematography student, I fell asleep in my lounge chair about halfway through waiting for something good to happen, which never did, unless you count the scene where the big brother enters the carnival trailer and assaults both the woman and his little brother. The screenplay was billed as suspenseful and Hitchcock-like on the movie jacket, but you knew from the first 5 minutes that big brother was buried under the storehouse. The only thing you didn't know, until about halfway through, was that mother actually killed him, instead of the younger brother who should have, except in fact he WAS a sissie just like big brother said at the dinner table. Don't waste your 3 dollar movie rental fee. I thought about actually asking for my money back when I returned the video.