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Really 1.5 stars, but definitely not 5! Sure, I want a movie that honors our first responders, but this one definitely isn't it. Instead, it's all the usual blockbuster cliches. The compelling drama is so laughably predictable you yearn for the action scenes, and the action scenes are so boringly predictable you can't wait for the drama to plod back on. If it were a Discovery Channel docudrama detailing the hands-on tactics of these fellows it would've been all right, but the nature of the fires is never explained (as it was in Backdraft, where the fire was an actual character... the villain). Instead, everything just inexplicably blows up, over and over. I guess the explosions looked good in the trailers. Come on, Hollywood... do these guys justice next time.