Man on Fire
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Director: Tony Scott Actors: Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony, Radha Mitchell Rated: R (Restricted) Retail Price (not our price): $14.98 Release Date: 2004-09-14 Studio: 20th Century Fox Run Time: 146 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Discs: 1 |
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1) Product Description
Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony, Christopher Walken. A burned-out CIA agent travels to Mexico to take a job as the bodyguard for a wealthy industrialist's daughter. But when the girl is kidnapped, he launches a one-man rescue mission. 2004/color/146 min/R/widescreen.2) Amazon.com
Style trumps substance in Man on Fire, a slick, brooding reunion of Crimson Tide star Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott. The ominous, crime-ridden setting is Mexico City, where a dour, alcoholic warrior with a mysterious Black Ops past (Washington) seeks redemption as the devoted bodyguard of a lovable 9-year-old girl (the precociously gifted Dakota Fanning), then responds with predictable fury when she is kidnapped. Prolific screenwriter Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, L.A. Confidential) sets a solid emotional foundation for Washington's tormented character, and Scott's stylistic excess compensates for a distended plot that's both repellently violent and viscerally absorbing. Among Scott's more distracting techniques is the use of free-roaming, comic-bookish subtitles... even when they're unnecessary! Adapted from a novel by A.J. Quinnell and previously filmed as a 1987 vehicle for Scott Glenn, Man on Fire is roughly on par with Scott's similar 1990 film Revenge, efficiently satisfying Washington's incendiary bloodlust under a heavy blanket of humid, doom-laden atmosphere. --Jeff Shannon
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