Run, do not walk, to the closest theater that is showing Ladder 49. Plead for any available tickets that may be remaining. Then laugh heartily at your own joke and tell the ticket taker he should be ashamed for being party to the worst movie that has ever been filmed in Baltimore. If you’re feeling spry, kick them in their pendulous parts. Alternatively, if you’re like me and prefer your violence delivered vicariously by way of the silver screen, go see something else.
As Kmart so aptly states in his post of Ladder 49, “this movie was absolutely crap.”
As I’ve described to many others, the movie starts with a grade of B after the first 10 minutes. The movie slowly devolves into the C level, shows a brief burst towards B range before plummeting straight to D around the 6th or 7th flashback. That’s right. There are 6 or 7 flashbacks. The movie did flirt with D- range, but was not exactly a “Four Feathers” F.
This week, something better.
