YMMV / Firestorm (1998)

• Complete Monster: Randall Alexander Shaye is a consummate liar, backstabber, and quick-witted criminal ready to kill anyone if it will benefit him. Shaye was originally incarcerated when he buried seventeen people, including his own men, alive in a robbery which netted $32 million, which Shaye stashed away before being arrested. After arranging for a massive wildfire to be set outside the prison, Shaye murders the man set to split his finances and assumes his identity, breaking out with four other prisoners he's promised to share the money with and leaving a busload of people to die in the fire. Shaye takes a birdwatcher named Jennifer hostage and physically abuses her whenever she gets out of turn, and gradually betrays and murders each member of the breakouts, always ready with a sob story or a snappy line to save face. Shaye ultimately kills Wynt, the mentor of firefighter Jesse Graves, in the final confrontation, before attempting to gun down Jesse himself and ride out with Jennifer. Shaye's calm, low-voiced demeanor perfectly disguised the self-concerned psychopath within.

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