A big disappointment for "Creasy" fans

Rating: 1/10 (15 October 2005)

For anyone who is familiar with the series of novels by A.J. Quinnell about John Creasy, ex French Foreign Legionnaire, this movie will be a big disappointment. Man On Fire, the first novel in the series, is set in Italy and the bad guys are mafiosi who kidnap and kill the girl who Creasy was hired to protect. Where the novel is exciting and credible, the movie is not. Obviously, Denzel Washington was available to star in a movie, and Hollywood, in typical fashion, looked for a good story which could be butchered to fit the actor.
If you haven't seen this movie, don't bother - read the book! If you want to see the movie, rent the 1987 version of Man On Fire. It's not great but it is more faithful to the novel.