That's about it.Armstrong stars as Charlie McGee, a girl born with tremendous powers thanks to the government experiments inflicted on her parents (which gave them various telepathic/telekinetic abilities).

A little girl has her dangerous power, some government agents want to examine her, others want to destroy her, and things catch on fire.

The film's crucial flaw is the lack of a strong point to the story. He has a couple of gruesomely detailed speeches in which he outlines this ambition, but the movie spares us the sight of Scott carrying out his plan. He wants the little girl because he dreams of killing her with one karate blow to the nose. He's an Indian, I guess, judging by his name and ponytail. Rainbird shows every sign of being a character who was rewritten so extensively that finally nothing was left except the notes. Of the other characters, the most totally confused is John Rainbird, the Indian played by Scott. Her father is even less interesting although he can use ESP to hypnotize people to obey his will, he gets a nosebleed every time he does it, and the way he clasps his hands to his head and strains makes ESP look like physical labor. She gets mad, her eyes narrow, and things catch on fire. But in 'Firestarter,' we don't feel sorry for Barrymore because she's never developed as a believable little girl - just a plot gimmick. The movie approached Walken as an ordinary man burdened with a power that should belong only to God, and allowed us to empathize with his terrible gift. The others were ' Christine,' 'Cujo,' ' The Dead Zone,' and ' Children of the Corn.' The best of those - and the one most similar to 'Firestarter' - is 'The Dead Zone,' which starred Christopher Walken as a man cursed with the ability to foretell the future.

'Firestarter' was the fifth movie in a year that was based on a best-selling thriller by Stephen King.

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