But overall, FIRESTARTER succeeds more often than it fails, due to King's own narrative genius, Barrymore's credible performance, and the special effects wizardry of Mike Wood.
The dialogue is also a little clunky at times too. Lester (CLASS OF 1984) directs the actors, this even though he has some superb ones, notably Sheen and Scott. There are admittedly flaws with FIRESTARTER, most of them having to do with the slightly perfunctory way that Mark L. In the end, of course, Sheen and Scott, and the rest of the Shop's minions, find out what happens when you play with a power that you don't fully appreciate. Barrymore gets special attention, of course, because of her fiery power, especially from Scott. Scott, they are the subject of various experiments on their abilities.
But once in the hands of the Shop, led by Martin Sheen and George C. Now, Keith and Barrymore are on their own, with Keith's only ability to protect Barrymore being his own psychic ability. Since then, eight of the ten patients originally involved have died horrible deaths, and Locklear has been murdered by agents of the Shop. Her power is the result of her parents (David Keith Heather Locklear) having undergone a bizarre chemical experiment in 1969 conducted by a secret government agency known as The Shop. Drew Barrymore, who made a star-making turn in E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, is the young girl possessed of a devastating kind of psychic power called pyrokinesis, the ability to light fires just by concentrating long and hard about it. The fact that it didn't fare all that well with critics or audiences doesn't diminish the fact that it remains, despite some flaws, one of the best adaptations of King's works, as well as a commentary on the dangerous of government interference and dissembling in people's lives. The fourth, and least commercially successful, was FIRESTARTER, based on King's 1980 novel. The first three were THE DEAD ZONE, CUJO, and CHRISTINE. During 19, there were no fewer than four movies released that were based on the works of Stephen King, this era's horror literature maven.
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