Man on Fire

    Man on Fire
    2004

    Synopsis

    Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

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    Cast

    • Denzel WashingtonJohn W. Creasy
    • Dakota FanningLupita Ramos
    • Christopher WalkenPaul Rayburn
    • Radha MitchellLisa Ramos
    • Marc AnthonySamuel Ramos
    • Giancarlo GianniniMiguel Manzano
    • Mickey RourkeJordan Kalfus
    • Rachel TicotinMariana Garcia Guerrero
    • Roberto SosaDaniel Sanchez
    • Jesús OchoaVictor Fuentes

    Recommendations

    • 88

      New York Daily News

      Man on Fire, with a best-ever Denzel Washington, is the first (nonreligious) sure thing to hit the multiplex this year.
    • 63

      Chicago Tribune

      Man on Fire, which starts off as a good example of super-glitz moviemaking, gradually turns into a movie on fire -- another helter-skelter, big-studio spending spree. Too bad. It could use a lot more of Walken, Fanning and some more honest drama.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The film is always watchable, and the confrontations contain undeniable edgy excitement. But even if this weren't a remake, it would be a remake. Hollywood filmmakers have fished these waters so thoroughly that it's virtually impossible to land a big catch.
    • 60

      Variety

      One of the more absorbing and palatable entries in the rather disreputable "Death Wish"-style self-appointed vigilante sub-genre.
    • 50

      New York Post

      Where Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill: Vol. 2" radiates freshness and vigor, Man on Fire feels vaguely like something left over from the 1980s, when action heroes were one-note tough guys methodically picking off baddies.
    • 50

      TV Guide Magazine

      Scott swaddles this fundamentally straightforward revenge story in a jumble of bleary freeze frames, random changes of color saturation and film stock, jump cuts and stuttering montages, splashing text from some menacing word soup onto the resulting collage of chicly disturbing images.
    • 50

      Los Angeles Times

      Despite its high craft level and Washington's participation in it, this movie's showy violence is finally as deadening as the over-emphatic violence in these kinds of films generally is.
    • 50

      L.A. Weekly

      A schizophrenic outing from habitually hysterical director Tony Scott (True Romance, The Fan), Man on Fire is a movie of two unreconcilable halves.

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