Firewalker (1986)

Max Donigan sets off on a treasure hunt with his friend Leo and newly-acquired partner Patricia, who provided the treasure map. Along the way they encounter a few bar fights, evil "coyotes", and other obstacles they are able to overcome with ease. That line alone pretty much single handedly ruined this movie but also pretty much the premise of the movie fall apart that quick. Chuck Norris has made better movies than this and this? It's probably one of his worst plus it's neither action packed enough or funny enough to say the least as well. (0/10)

I thought this movie was an excellent buddy - comedy - adventure film . It may not have been a big budget movie but that does not stop you from enjoying it .Chuck Norris is excellent and hilarious he gives one of his best performances as the tough guy and loyal friend who knows how to fight as shown in the bar scene where he defeats an entire bar full of men single handedly but can't shoot straight .Louis Gossett Jr is great as his his sidekick and Melody Anderson as Chuck Norris' love interest . People may say that it is a copy cat spoof of Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone but I disagree I think it stands alone and is just as good . I personally think that it is better than those two movies and I thought it was funnier and a lot more enjoyable . It is *****/*****

Chuck Norris and Lou Gossett are a couple of down-on-their-luck adventurers in this pale imitation of comedy-adventure movies like India Jones and Romancing the Stone. After their latest close escape from death they encounter a young lady in a down-at-heel South American bar who persuades them to hunt for some treasure or something. I don't know, I sort of lost interest at this point even though we were only ten or fifteen minutes into the movie. Firewalker is bad in all kinds of ways, none of which combine to make it a complete stinker, but which sort of sap you of the energy required to pick up the remote and switch channels. One thing that struck me as I watched was how chuck Norris managed to remain a fairly bankable action star for so long when even Lou Gossett's performance exposes his lack of acting ability. And how do they build those doors in mountain caves that slide up and down without anyone touching them?

Firewalker starts as a woman named Patricia Goodman (Melody Anderson) ask's two adventurers for hire Max Donigan (Chuck Norris) & Leo Porter (Louis Gossett Jr.) to join her on a trip to an Indian reservation where she believes there is a fortune of gold. Using a treasure map she has they travel to the location & find a gold sacrificial knife & clues to where the rest of the treasure is hidden, they decide to team up & set out on an adventure to find the treasure overcoming all sorts of problems & dangers along the way...Directed by J. Lee Thompson one has to say that Firewalker is crap, I thought it was utterly devoid of any action or excitement & the story sucked too. The script by Norman Aladjem, Robert Gosnell & Jeffrey M. Rosenbaum is like a poor man's cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) & Romancing the Stone (1984) with it's mixture of ancient mystic temples & magic along with it's basic adventure to find the gold at the end of a treasure map type story. Obviously meant as a buddy buddy mismatched partner comedy action adventure with a touch of fantasy Firewalker pretty much fails at everything it does, it amazingly unfunny with plenty of dumb dialogue, there's hardly any action in it with a few fights about the sum of it & the mystic elements are also crap & seemingly there purely for the hell of it. I was watching this last night & despite only running for about 100 minutes it felt like it went on forever, the narrative is poor as the trio stumble their way across Central America & unlike an Indiana Jones film where there is plenty of relevant action there's hardly any in Firewalker. The film feels like a travelogue at times such little happens as we follow the protagonists on their (boring) journey through a jungle.Director Thompson is a very experienced action film director & I expected more here, the bad guy is nominal, the action scenes are bland & sluggish & it's as boring as hell. Apart from a few fights there really isn't any action at all, there's no car chases, explosions, anything original or shoot-outs & the violence is also minimum. As a whole it's a surprisingly dull & just downright poor film & I don't know what else I can say about it & it comes as no surprise it was produced by Menahem Golan & Yoran Globus under their Cannon Group & this is just the type of flick for which they have such a bad reputation & why they went bankrupt.Technically the film is bland, I wouldn't have thought Firewalker had a big budget & it's a largely uneventful film. Apparently shot in Mexico. The acting is poor, you would have thought a film starring both Chuck Norris & Louis Gossett Jr. would be good but they both turn in poor performances & isn't in the so bad it's good category but the so bad it's bad category.Firewalker is a really poor action adventure type film that I was extremely disappointed with, I just can't see anything positive in this film at all & I didn't like one little bit. Could have been fun, as it is it's crap.