Fireworks is convinced that it's an intelligent, admirable film because it looks and sounds like one on the surface. Beyond that brittle surface, however, is a film doesn't actually do anything to earn that status. Fireworks boasts two leads that feel radically underdeveloped, and yet it still expects you to care about their relationship, even though you have no idea what would make them compatible with each other, all leading into a third act that entirely rings hollow.