Hasn't aged well...

Rating: 6/10 (2 August 2019)

Man on Fire is film I fondly remember from 15 years ago (saw it when it released).
A friend of mine brought this movie up and I couldn't remember pretty much anything from it, which was a bit alarming, as I'm a movie guy.
So, I decided to watch it again, and I wish I shouldn't.
While the story and dialogue were top-notch, the pacing and editing were pretty mediocre.
Tony Scott is dead, and I hate to bring this up, but this is the worst cut film, I've ever seen with a rating above 5 in IMDB!
The quick super-cut of frames with different color grading and object distortion was not overly-used, it was literally in every second scene!
I imagine someone showed Tony this new cool thing to do and he just loved it so much, and went like, we need this as much as possible!
Well, Tony, it's amateurish, it's nauseating and doesn't bring anything to the picture!
Same can be said about the pacing. 2 hours of 40 mins tops scenes, stretched out as much as possible to the point where I can swear some scene were blatant copies of a scene from 10 mins ago.
Acting was mediocre, beyond Denzel and Dakota, the rest were a bunch of cliched characters and mediocre actors. Especially, Christopher Walken, he was abysmal in this.
I won't even mention how the movies was aiming to be realistic, and it was, before the last 40 mins where Denzel goes into Commando mode, only to be shot by the only person, who can barely use a gun!
And, how does he stay alive and active for 4-5 hours when being shot in the bloody chest!
Overall, this is a simple revenge story film we've seen over and over again, but this one is poorly cut, overblown and throws it's realism concept out the window after you've endured it for a whole 2 hours!
A solid 5.5-6/10 for this, but nowhere near the 7.7/10 in IMDB.