The best film I have ever seen and best book I have ever read.

Rating: Null/10 (21 October 2007)

Man on Fire is the most griping films I have ever seen, I am erged to buy all of A.J Quinnels books because of this one. The pure emotion is what kept me reading, you can't keep your eyes from the page. I often found my self reading pages over to make sure that i absorbed every last piece of information. The character Creasy was portrayed perfectly in the film, probably due to the astonishing acting by Denzel Washington.
*Start spoiler warning* The story follows Creasy (Denzel Washington), a worn out mercenary bored of life. His best friend Guido (Rayburn) (Christopher Walken) who he had spent his army and merc days with, saw this and got him a job. Creasy spoke to him about him getting the job for him and knew that only reason he got him it was to stop him from blowing his head off.
The job was Being a body guard to a young girl, Pinta (Peta) (Dakota Fanning). Creasy and Pinta had gotten off on to a rocky start, Creasy believing that Pinta thought that he was her new toy. They grew to love each other, and Pinta showed Creasy that it was alright to live again. But when she got kidnapped Creasys hard training and furious anger flamed out to kill any one who took part anyone who profited and looks at him.
This is the point where the book and the film differ to a huge extent. In the book Creasy goes to Gozo to train and a get fit enough to take on the powerful people who kidnapped, raped and killed Pinta. This continues to show the relationships between Creay and the people of Gozo, Creasy even falls in love with a woman whose first intent was to use Creasy as a way of getting pregnant. But in the film he gets out of a hospital bed heavily wounded from the shots he took during the kidnapping (the gunshots happen in the book too but Creasy stays and fights for his life) to get a vast amount guns and kill everyone.
In the book Pinta was raped and killed, But in the film that did not happen and she survived unharmed, as a girl dead was worth nothing to the kidnapper. In both Creasy dies but under completely different circumstances. He is taken by the kidnapper in the film and dies in the car taking him to probably be tortured, this is a heart wrenching ending where most people would have to fight back the tears. The same goes for the book, Creasy had just killed the man who raped and killed Pinta, but was shot in the shoulder hitting a major artery, He died in the hands of his best friend Guido. The funeral had many people there, and there were many morning in the hills of Gozo.
*End Spoiler warning* One of the best book I have read, I prefer the book to the film, but the film is still AMAZING. Its a must see.
Elis