Avenge or revenge...it matters if the money is right.

Rating: 4/10 (29 January 2005)

Tony Scott is a very good director. Denzel Washington owns an Oscar. MAN ON FIRE is sub-par for both talents. Creasy(Washington)is a former government assassin/soldier of fortune who has all but given up on himself. Barely holding his own in his bought with the bottle; Creasy takes a job as a body guard of a young American girl Pita(Dakota Fanning) in Mexico City where kidnapping is running rampant. He vows to show no mercy for anyone who profited from snatching the likable, precocious child.
There seems to be too much down time between burst of action. Not to say the movie is not intense. My favorite scene is when Creasy loads a man's butt with a stick of dynamite and strolls away as it explodes. Miss Fanning once again shows her immense talent. Washington seems to founder not unlike a fish out of water. Other notables in the cast are: Christopher Walken, Marc Anthony, Mickey Rourke and Radha Mitchell.