Here’s another overstuffed epic that’s trying to be too many movies at once — an effects-driven adventure, a sibling-rivalry drama, a romance, a political expose, a detective story, and even a little bit of “Silence of the Lambs” (with Donald Sutherland as the Hannibal Lecter of arsonists). Still, most of it works, especially the firefighting sequences, which inspired a stunt show at Universal Studios.
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