Screaming movies 'Firestorm', 'Money Talks' hit town

JAKARTA (JP): A couple of movies worth the wait have recently hit the city's cinemas. Below is a synopsis of both.

Firestorm. Cast: Howie Long, Suzy Amis, William Forsythe and Scott Glenn. Director: Deam Semler.

Nature's terrorizing magnificence lies in her having her own way. The same goes for Semler.

Two forest fires mesh to create a storm, winds whip flames into a frenzy, and tornadoes of fire spiral up to 200 meters.

Fighting firestorms maybe just another day's job for smoke jumper Jesse Graves (Howie Long) but little does he know that convicted murderer Earl Shaye (William Forsythe), posing as a firefighter, is using it to stage his escape plan.

Graves is faced with the dilemma of vaporizing the deadly situation, outsmarting the killer and rescuing an ornithologist taken hostage, Jennifer (Suzy Amis).

Money Talks. Cast: Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker, Paul Sorvino and Heather Locklear. Director: Brett Ratner.

Sweet, slick and savvy-talking cons litter New Line Cinema's latest release.

Tucker and Sheen play the honorary roles of petty con artist and media-man respectively in this mile-a-minute action-comedy, where their lives literally collide to face a deadly ultimatum.

Tucker plays Franklin Hatchett, a scalper who charges ceiling- high prices for tickets.

He gets himself arrested and handcuffed to Villard (Ismael), an international diamond smuggler on a chain gang. Villard and his cohorts subsequently commandeer the bus transporting them and Tucker becomes a hostage.

He escapes, to the life-threatening disappointment of both Villard and the Los Angeles police.

Fingered for Villard's escape, Tucker turns to television reporter James Russell (Sheen). Despite plans to marry Grace Cipriani (Locklear), Russell cannot resist a promotion and a way to impress his moneyed future father-in-law, Guy Cipriani (Paul Sorvino).

Also still showing are wars that define causes of human existence.

Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin ceaselessly wage war on nature and each other in The Edge while Brad Pitt trudges a soul journey up the treacherous Nanga Parbat in Seven Years In Tibet.

Nathan Lane and Lee Evan act kiddish to outsmart a furry tyke and win a rodent-free mansion in the war of the mouse-brained, Mouse Hunt.

Two other movies being screened are Mortal Combat 2 and The Beneficiary, a Playboy production starring Linden Ashby, Suzy Amis and Robert Davi. (ylt)