Critical Reception
Hellfighters received mostly negative reviews, garnering a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes (one "Fresh" rating and seven "Rotten" ratings). Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews summarized the film as "a dull adventure tale about macho men who fight oil fires". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times described the movie as a "slow moving, talkative, badly plotted bore".
On a more positive note, A. H. Weiler of The New York Times noted that John Wayne made "actionful, if not stirringly meaningful, child's play of exotic disasters" and remarked that "the unrestrained cast and director maintain a welcome sense of humor".
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