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 With
plenty of burning ambition… 'Man On Fire' is nothing less than
hot! With an expressionistic camera style, thanks to the highly
stylized signature director Tony Scott and with plenty of edgy excitement,
I'd say it's possibly the best action-thriller of the year.
After a wave of kidnappings in Mexico City, John Creasy (Denzel
Washington)… a former government assassin, who as well as battling
a few personal demons is also battling the bottle… is perhaps
mistakenly entrusted with the life of Pita (the excellent and ever
wiser than her years, Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of a wealthy
Mexican businessman called Samuel (Marc Anthony) and his American
wife Lisa (Radha Mitchell).
Creasy's primary job is to protect Pita from harm, but she also
has plans for the two of them to be friends and so constantly pesters
him with questions about his life.
Tortured by his secretive past however, Creasy is less than keen
to provide the answers and barely tolerates this somewhat precocious
child at first.
As time passes though, their bond becomes increasingly unbreakable…
until Pita is snatched from his grasp that is… and that's when
Creasy's new-found purpose in life is shattered and he decides to
clean up his act. He turns from a man on the edge, to a man on the
rampage for justifiable vengeance!
Although violent on its take on a revenge story, this film is totally
compelling, mainly due to the talented and very magnetic duo, Fanning
and Washington, and also gripping, with its many moments of high
tension.
It's
also a film with Christopher Walken and Mickey Rourke on the cast
list… I mean, how many more reasons do you need to go and watch
this great film?
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