Excellent Character Study and Love Story

Rating: 8/10 (28 December 2014)

A solid movie that I have seen several times. Denzel Washington loves to go "Hard-Core, Black-and-White" (not "Black-and-White" racial, but moral standards).
D.W. plays his standard type-cast, emotionless, remorseless character in this film -- and in my opinion, it's the best work he's ever done, in that respect.
After he reads excerpts from the diary of the young girl that he is protecting, D.W. neither cracks a smile nor sheds a tear. He mercilessly tortures and guns down every person between himself and the child, until he is sure that she is safe.
This kind of "merciless martyrdom" is a trademark of D.W.'s acting, and this is the best instance of it.