Playing with Fire (2019)

★ 6.6 1h 36m 750 votes IMDb
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A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.

Playing with Fire

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Cast

John Cena
John Cena as Jake “Soup” Carson Age 49 · West Newbury, Massachusetts, USA John Felix Anthony Cena, better known simply as John Cena, is a retired American professional wrestler and actor who was signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2001 until his retirement. O...
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key as Mark Age 55 · Southfield, Michigan, USA Keegan-Michael Key (born March 22, 1971) is an American actor and comedian, best known for starring in the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele and for his six seasons as a cast member on MADtv. H...
John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo as Rodrigo Age 65 · Bogotá, Colombia John Alberto Leguizamo Peláez (born July 22, 1960) is a Colombian-American stand-up comedian, actor, and film producer. He has appeared in over 100 films, produced over 20 films and documentaries, mad...
Tyler Mane
Tyler Mane as Axe Age 59 · Saskatchewan, Canada Daryl Karolat (born December 8, 1966) is a Canadian actor and former professional wrestler, better known by the stage name Tyler Mane. He is also known for playing Michael Myers In Halloween and Hallo...
Brianna Hildebrand
Brianna Hildebrand as Brynn Age 29 · College Station, Texas, USA Brianna Caitlin Hildebrand is an American actress. She is known for appearing in the web series Annie Undocumented, and as Negasonic Teenage Warhead in the films Deadpool and Deadpool 2 where she repr...
Christian Convery
Christian Convery as Will Age 16 · Los Angeles, California, USA Christian Convery (born November 10, 2009) is a Canadian and American child actor. He is best known for his leading role as Gus in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth (2021–2024) and his performance in the...

Audience Reviews

SWITCH. 4/10 Nov 26, 2019
Paramount has proved themselves with ‘Instant Family’ and this year's ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’, showing they can really work some magic and create really funny, wholesome, heartwarming live action family films, and ‘Playing with Fire’ could have been in that bunch if it wasn’t so cheap and derivative. While Cena charms, the rest of the film isn’t that hot.
- Chris dos Santos

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https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-playing-with-fire-put-out-this-flaming-mess
JPV852 6/10 Feb 02, 2020
Perfectly harmless movie squarely aimed at kids, but I did manage to chuckle a few times even with the overacting. Also helps that I do genuinely like the cast, John Cena and Keegan-Michael Key. Nothing I'd be keen on watching again, but still was an okay time-waster. **2.75/5**
Kamurai 6/10 Oct 23, 2020
Decent watch, probably won't watch again, and can only recommend for younger audiences.

Nickelodeon has done some weird things, and putting together this cast is one of them. It's a great cast, but it's not really what I could consider a kid's movie cast.

I don't think any kids would know Dennis Haysbert or Judy Greer, and I kind of hope they wouldn't know John Leguizamo, Keegan-Michael Key, or Brianna Hildebrand, but they might know John Cena if they know wrestling.

There is a lot of things that happen in this movie with very little happening at the same time. It's actually a sweet (if ridiculous) concept, but for most of the movie there is very little weight to it other than laughing at the misfortune of these good civil servants.

A lot of the jokes are too "grown up" without being good, or too "kiddy" for me to enjoy. I'm not saying it isn't funny for bubbles to fill a room, but context still helps (see "Just My Luck"), and using that as an example, there is actually a good sequence of misfortune right before the bubble scene that sets it up so I know they know how to do it, but they chose to do it another way.

For what should have been really good just came out decent.

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