Firewalker (1986)
A pair of down-and-out fortune hunters cash in on high adventure!
There’s not a ton of times when I’ve really picked a movie because of specific events during the course of me doing these reviews - heck, even when I felt bad about calling them reviews since I don’t really feel like I’m doing a professional enough job. Nowadays I’m just too lazy to care and call them what they are, but even though we’ve lost countless actors to the inevitable march of time through my movie-watching life span, there is one that make me feel obligated to go back and have some nostalgia for with the bad news. Chuck Norris was one of my favorites growing up - sure, he was super cool and did martial arts which any young Power Rangers loving kid would think was awesome, but he also looked a lot like my dad to me so there was that added level of mental coolness. With all of that, I knew I had to come back and do one of his movies this week - narrowing it down theoretically should have been a hard one, since he’s had an absolute ton of fun movies, but there’s one that I had in mind that I was pretty sure I hadn’t already touched here. It has adventure. It has whimsey. It has jump kicks and swagger - tonight we go back for the Firewalker.
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