Critic Reviews
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Backdraft has some of the raw filmmaking excitement that has been missing from Howard's recent work.
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Variety Staff, Variety
Visually, pic often is exhilarating, but it's shapeless and dragged down by corny, melodramatic characters and situations.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Visually speaking, the film does pretty well with fire-as-spectacle, less well with everything else (Howard tends to trot out fuzzy-toned Spielbergian backlighting on any pretext).
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Janet Maslin, New York Times
The spectacular fire sequences, which must have been hellish to film, are powerfully enveloping on screen, thanks especially to the eerie effect of the title.
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Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Backdraft is sure to do for fire what The Poseidon Adventure did for water.
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Cast
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Kurt Russellas Stephen McCaffrey -
William Baldwinas Brian McCaffrey -
Robert De Niroas Donald Rimgale
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Donald Sutherlandas Ronald Bartel -
Jennifer Jason Leighas Jennifer Vaitkus -
Scott Glennas John Adcox
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