Harry Lags Anyone familiar with Romancing the Stone and King Solomon's Mines will feel right at home seeing Chuck Norris in this lightweight adventure. He cracks jokes, laughs, and romances a pretty blonde while being Lou Gossett's best buddy. It's as fun and innocent as action films get. J. Lee Thompson (who did a bunch of films with Charles Bronson like Death Wish 4 and St. Ives) directed this. John Rhys-Davies (from Raiders of the Lost Ark) shows up in a cameo. Gary Chang did the electronic score.These soldiers of misfortune are drawn into a quest for Aztec treasure by Melody Anderson, as a beautiful legal secretary with psychic powers. Pursued by Indians of all sorts, guerrillas of all sorts and just one alligator, the trio seeks gems in the jungles of Central America. Hijinks ensue. High kicks accrue.Norris is still fast on his feet, stomping a Cantina full of Banditos into bean dip. The fight scenes are fine, but only emphasize the plodding pace and the moldy plot.But for Firewalker, he went more for the comedic action-adventure style and I think he succeeded in doing that very well. Because that's the way it should be enjoyed, as the Sunday-Matinée, popcorn-munching, mini-roller-coaster-ride that it is! There are still some slivers of nostalgic fun to be had here, so if you must delve into the past, why not. Don't take it too seriously and you'll do just fine!

DeuceWild_77 Not very well received when it came out in '86, "Firewalker" is a lighthearted action / adventure / comedy flick in the vein of the 'jungle adventure" movie resurgence after the success of the first two Indiana Jones films and "Romancing the Stone" & its sequel "The Jewell of the Nile". Cannon Group already produced a low budget version of Indiana Jones a year before with "King Solomon's Mines" starring Richard Chamberlain as the intrepid adventurer Allan Quatermain and "damsel-in-distress" Jesse Huston played by Sharon Stone in an early appearance on-screen, it was based on the classic novel by Henry Rider Haggard and was filmed back-to-back with its way inferior sequel, "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold". "King Solomon's Mines" was a sleeper hit which prompted the two cousins, the heads of Cannon Group, to produce another "jungle adventure" movie starring their greatest action star at the time, Chuck Norris, which had a multi- picture contract deal with the Studio during the 80's. Throwing in the Academy Award Winner Louis Gossett Jr., the beautiful Melody Anderson from "Flash Gordon", John Rhys-Davies from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" which was also used in the previous "King Solomon's Mines", Will Sampson from "Poltergeist II" and the burly Sonny Landham from "48 Hrs."; a cheesy screenplay which pays homage to the b-movie adventures of the 50's and an expert director such as Jack Lee Thompson who helm'd "The Guns of Navarone" and "MacKenna's Gold" in his golden years and was currently working as a director-for-hire attached to the Cannon projects (who also came from directing "King Solomon's Mines"), Golan-Globus had everything in hands for this movie to succeed, but probably because audiences were getting tired of this 'ressurected' genre ("Shangai" also came out in the same year and was a major failure) and the Norris' die hard fans didn't liked at all the change on his on-screen persona and the lack of raw violence in favor of a more witty & spoof tone, "Firewalker" flopped and was, undeservedly, badmouthed since then. Critics aside, "Firewalker" is a great escapist adventure film, even with the usual boundaries of a Cannon produced movie with limited budget, the movie looks visually good and moves at a nicely pace, it's full of well achieved sequences and the humour incorporated to it, absolutely, works. Norris and Gossett Jr. have great chemistry on- screen (it's a shame due to this movie failure and Cannon's bankruptcy they never worked together again) and Melody Anderson shines with his beauty, presence and persistence. Rhys-Davies delivers a memorable cameo (an homage to Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King) & Landham is way effective as the supernatural main baddie. It's been pointed out some continuity errors and other stuff like that, but "Firewalker" never was meant to be a masterpiece on the caliber of "Treasure of Sierra Madre" or "The African Queen", it's just a fun movie to watch, unpretentious and uncommitted, featuring a laid back performance by Chuck Norris enjoying the ride and most likely one of the very few times he smiled and laughed on-screen during his peak Era of the ruthless, stoic & wooden characters. Recommended !!

Frank Markland Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr star as two adventurers who find themselves running after the "Firewalker" which leads to a cave of huge treasures (Which look like brass) and along the way they are joined by a nutty blonde (Melody Anderson) who hires them out to help find the cave. While Sonny Landham stars as a big buff Native American with an eye-patch that switches eyes (Which then vanishes altogether in the climax) who is "El Coyote" the main villain of the peace. Firewalker was awful back in 1986 and is even worse now. The sets are laughably unconvincing and because the movie is PG it lacks R rated action. Worst of all is that it tries to be comedy and Norris is too humorless to make the transition. Louis Gossett Jr overacts and Melody Anderson gives a typically moronic performance (Remember she was the worst thing in Flash Gordon) and it basically is a dull rip off of the vastly superior Romancing The Stone. (We will not even compare this to Raiders Of The Lost Ark) The only good thing about the movie is, uh, the way a guy throws himself off a cliff after seeing "Firewalker" That was priceless in its unintentional hilarity.* out of 4-(Bad) (And i'm being generous...)

Wyndeweavyr I personally love this movie. I think the interaction between Norris and Gossett is hilarious. Quite a few of the fight scenes are really funny, while still showing good action. One of the best things about this movie is that Chuck Norris isn't perfect in it. His character fights very well, {the karate sequences are excellent} but he can't hit the broad side of a barn with a gun, and isn't particularly bright. For those that hadn't figured it out, this is intentional. I found the imperfect Chuck to be a delightful part of this movie. I thought it was a great spoof of the treasure hunter movies. and it's tongue in cheek approach was very refreshing.