Man on Fire....This Man Half Asleep

Rating: Null/10 (10 May 2004)

If you saw "Who'll Stop the Rain" you will have already seen, virtually, "Man on Fire." The MTV filmic technique grows quickly tiresome and makes the action sequences less - not more - exciting or dramatic. It is art for art's sake, and does nothing to serve the movie. Dreadful misuse of film techniques. And, again, the story is virtually identical to the Nick Nolte film, which was better by far. I blinked and missed Mickey Rourke, by-the-way. Poor man was once a Star! And Chris Walken is finger-licking good in the most literal sense of the word. And if this is actually what goes on n Mexico City....who would want to go there? And why do the kidnappees families give in to the kidnappers? Everyone knows that that only propogates the problem.