It came from the Sin Bin: “Nature Unleashed: Fire”!
While perusing Wal-Mart on a mission to find some sort of sustenance, I crossed paths with destiny. Walking past the nine dollar movies and the seven dollar movies I found myself at the five dollar movies. The discount bin, or the “sin bin” as it will heretofor be known, is full of majesty and wonder hidden amongst loads and loads of garbage. Amongst this garbage was a four movie set all based around disasters. This collection, as we will see, contains four classics “Crash Landing,” “Nature Unleashed: Avalanche,” “Nature Unleashed: Earthquake,” and finally “Nature Unleashed: Fire.” In this edition of “Sin Bin Sunday” we will explore Allan A. Goldstein’s epic adventure “Nature Unleashed: Fire”!
The back of the box purports that during a forest fire “a group of dirt bikers are forced to safety [. . .] through an abandoned mine.” See? Doesn’t this movie sound awesome? Well, it is, sort of. During the 90 minute run time we are treated to multiple explosions; mine cave ins; angry, fire starting rednecks; and people forgetting about their injuries. The story is solid, there aren’t too many headscratching moments and the writing is tighter than some major motion pictures I’ve seen in the past few years. It doesn’t challenge the mind, but the movie doesn’t want or need to. The dirt bike element gets a little annoying mainly because the sound effects guy only had three sounds for a dirt bike: chainsaw sound, idle chainsaw sound, and full out chainsaw sound. There are a lot of wheelies, if you love wheelies then you will love this film.
Overall, due to the gratuitous amount of CGI fire and greasy haired women, I give this movie my stamp of crapproval.
