I had no idea what to expect from this movie when I sat down to watch it, other than I believed it to be a horror movie. I read the synopsis, and it seemed alright.
The storyline in "Fire City: End of Days" was very deviant from what I was expecting, especially since I found this movie in the horror section. It didn't really have an ounce of horror to it; this was more of a fantasy movie of sorts. And there was so little happening of any interest or anything riveting that made you hunger for more, so it was a very bland and uneventful pace that the movie trotted on in.
And just when I thought I just about had seen all there was to see, a demonic drug dealer pops up on the screen here.
So this was supposed to be demons coexisting with humans in our world? But somehow the demons looked like creatures from "Babylon 5". And some of the demons looked like something from one of the early Peter Jackson movies such as "Bad Taste". There wasn't a shred of demonic feel to the majority of the creatures in the movie. Which kind of baffled me, especially since they had definitely put a lot of effort into the make-up and prosthetic. The boar-like demon was perhaps the one with the worst demon design of them all, it looked like something from a low budget young adult TV horror show. There was a Moloch, though, that actually looked quite good and had that demonic feel to its design, aside from the mouth when it spoke and it spoke with Schwarzenegger-like accent, which made it difficult to take it serious.
The acting in the movie was adequate, and I was actually a bit surprised to see that Danielle Chuchran was playing the role of Cornelia. Aside from Danielle Chuchran, the only other familiar face on the screen was Matt Winston (playing Ron).
The characters in the movie were so trivial and generic that you don't really bother committing to any of them. The characters do appear to be rather pointless and could easily be replaced by cardboard cut-outs.
There was a scene where the Asian couple was sitting at the dining table with another woman, and when she got up and started to undress and dance naked then I was just about ready to get up and turn off the movie. Because that brought so much ridiculousness and pointlessness with it. And it served no purpose at all. Sure, I get that some demons are all about sexual prowess and seduction, but come on. It served no purpose other than director Tom Woodruff Jr. having a chance to put a fully naked woman into his movie.
"Fire City: End of Days" was by no means an outstanding or particularly memorable movie in any way. It was entertaining enough for the campy thing that it turned out to be. Just don't expect anything extraordinary here. And I doubt that you will watch the movie more than once, provided you actually make it through the first time, given its slow and mundane pacing.
