Should come with warning to epileptics

Rating: 3/10 (27 July 2009)

Some where amongst the flashing strobes and frame chopping that permeate this film you can just manage to make out a black guy who appears to have some serious anger issues. There's also a little rich girl who gets kidnapped and lots of Mexicans who are mostly bad. 'Man on Fire' as we are expected to know our heroic paparazzi target (*flash* *flash*...) is a graduate of the Rambo school of unstoppable killing machines (once our fuses get lit). Films of this ilk can be entertaining, amusing even if you're my way inclined - I've often found myself on the end of odd stairs after chuckling out loud at a decapitation, but they can't be anything more than that, in particular they can't expect us to care about the characters or storyline whom are to movies what myths are to Mythbusters which is just a show about blowing things up. This is Man on Fire's undoing as amongst AIEDs (Anally Inserted Explosive Device) and torture scenes we are distracted by emotionally charged drivel revolving around aforementioned little rich girl who we all know will be fine in the end. Some people donate their bodies to science he donated his to Mexican bandits, he should have done it a lot earlier.