Lifeline (1997)
Reviewed by: Chuma on 2000-07-12
Summary: Cool Firemen/women?!?
WS station has a bad reputation in the fire department for having
the most accidents out of the whole Hong Kong Fire Service, and one
such incident sees the entire firefighting team reporting to the hospital
with food poisoning from bad cafetira food.

It's not so funny however, when the chief has an accident while in a lift
shaft at a construction site and is rushed to the hospital. Being a good
team, the entire fire fighting force rush to his bedside and are told
to get out of the way by the nurses and to 'let the doctors do their job'
by their chief.

Further adventures await, such as the woman threatening to commit suicide,
who is saved by the new chief, much to the amusement of the station staff,
A rescue for a budgie and a baby (not in the same fire).

I'll leave the rest to you, but I will say that the conclusion is one
of the best final sequences I've seen in a film for a long time
(it's up there with the Towering Inferno or the more recent Backdraft).

This is one of the better films I've seen in a while, however probably
the only thing I didn't like is the ANNOYING little kid. Mark disagrees
with me on this, but she couldn't be more annoying if she had skipped
around and sang "Go to the one stop lighting shop!"

That aside, I think most people who like action/drama type movies
would like this film very much.

Rating : 8/10 (the annoying kid pegs it down by 2)