Amazing Intro and Conclusion but the rest is lacking

Rating: 4/10 (26 July 2012)

This is the 1st movie review I have ever written so bear with me-
The first 45 minutes of Man on Fire I was super entertained. The director did an amazing job of introducing Denzel as alcoholic Creasy and Fanning as Pita. You could see Denzel and Fannings bond grow and grow, it was awesome to see and I could not wait for the plot to unfold. And than the plot came along and the director f'ed up a could be incredible movie. He introduced lame distorted and fuzzy scenes and made the movie annoying and hard to follow. This was most annoying during the scene at the club and other super climactic scenes. These scenes were also way to short as I felt like I basically watched Creasy go around Mexico City and every 5 minutes kill a guy who would give information as to who the next guy was. There was never any roadblocks and Creasy just went around for over an hour doing what felt like the same thing over and over again, against very powerful people. Finally the ending came along and saved me from turning the DVD player off. The ending was absolutely superb. There was a cool (but semi predictable) twist and the ending was extremely satisfying. I just wished the real meat of the movie would have been better because it could have been an incredible action sequence had it not been so repetitive. Overall it is still a movie worth watching because of the superb acting and a great beginning and ending. Nonetheless I have never been so disappointed after such a superb introduction.
Personally id give this movie somewhere between five and six stars.