Worst Films Of All Time – September 2010

Posted on Sep 1, 2010

Fireproof (2008)

Directed By: Alex Kendrick

Written By: Ken Knight
Mondo Film & Video Guide Feature Contributor

“Never Leave Your Partner Behind” OR “Internet Porn ruined my so-called life”

Kirk Cameron stars as a Firefighter married to a nice woman named Catherine  and he’s got it made (so he thinks) with a wife, good job, $24,000 saved for a boat, and endless hours spent looking at Internet Porn. Then comes the test of a sick mother-in-law and a wife who doesn’t like him looking at tits and ass on the computer nor the fact he’s going to spend his savings on a boat while her mother needs medical care her insurance won’t pay for (can you say “This shit is predictable!”).  Divorce is mentioned and Kirk goes off like a little feeb who just got his lunch-money taken.

First off, Kirk Cameron couldn’t play a “tough guy” if his life depended on it and it’s clear and present that he was cast in this “moral” role because he is Hollywood’s premiere “Actor/Evangelist” who pushes his nauseating creed on whoever will give the Putz five minutes. Despite this film’s popularity among the Evangelical audiences it didn’t fare well at theaters but has a DVD following for its “Promise Keeper” storyline where the main character follows the “road to redemption” and saves his pitiful marriage according to Christian construct.

In all fairness, this film is about as predictable as a car accident on ice and entertaining as watching a dog chase his tail. Cameron and crew push the current Evangelical boogeyman of “Internet Porn” as the chief bad guy in this story, (of course it’s not the character’s fault for abusing his online experience, it’s the “devil”!)

I am at a loss as to which one of Kirk Cameron’s recent films qualifies as more annoying and preachy, this piece of shit or that “Left Behind” series of flops a few years back. Of course it’s not only recently Kirk Cameron’s been pushing his religious credo in the entertainment industry, he was a little shit back when he did “Growing Pains” on TV twenty years ago, actually getting actress Julie McCullough fired from that show because he personally objected to her having posed nude in Playboy magazine back in 1986. I give this film the golden thumbs-down award as Mondo’s Worst Film of 2008 with a middle-finger salute to Kirk Cameron.