Grabs hold emotionally then takes you for a ride!!

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2020)

The acting in this film is so unique in a way that only Tony Scott and Tarantino can pull off. It's phenomal! It's just a gift to everyone!! You've got a great cast of high-caliber actors, and the director did everything he could to not restrict anyone, and seemed to really let everyone be loose to see what kind of improvisational things they could do in the moment. I would bet $1000 that Tony Scott did not ever yell "Just read the lines off the script" during the filming of this movie. That's the part that puts this film in greatest of all time territory. Like Christopher Walken licking his fingers before uttering "Creasy's art is death," is just something that no one else could really pull off, and I'll never forget.
The bond that builds throughout the film between Denzel and Dakota Fanning that starts with Denzel trying to push her away and then he just can't fight it anymore so he almost takes her under his wing like his own daughter creates this emotional bond to the film that I don't think has ever been done as powerfully in any other movie. What it does is set such a heavy anchor down that when the film takes are sharp left turn with Dakota being kidnapped I wanted so badly for Creasy to get his revenge on the kidnappers and any and all torture was totally justified! Denzel makes one promise to Dakota Fannings mom and that's that he's going to kill everyone involved with the kidnapping.
One crazy thing that I would have liked to have seen more detail about was how the lawyer(who is played by Mickey Rourke) is killed. It's like a "WTF" moment because Creasy goes to kill him, but by the time he gets there he's already dead floating in his pool with his throat slit and there's a bloody Japanese katana laying on his desk. Like It's Mexico City! When did the Akuza get involved in this and decide to kill the lawyer?? You can't just put a bloody katana at the scene of his death with no explanation!!
Anyways Despite the confusing lawyer death I still give it 10/10 and the best action movie I have ever seen.