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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $9.49 You Save: $5.49 Features • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 23 April, 2004 DVD Release : 14 September, 2004 |
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Man on Fire description Style trumps substance in Man on Fire, a slick, brooding reunion of Crimson Tide star Denzel Washington and director Tony Scott. The ominous, crime-ridden setting is Mexico City, where a dour, alcoholic warrior with a mysterious Black Ops past (Washington) seeks redemption as the devoted bodyguard of a lovable 9-year-old girl (the precociously gifted Dakota Fanning), then responds with predictable fury when she is kidnapped. Prolific screenwriter Brian Helgeland (Mystic River, L.A. Confidential) sets a solid emotional foundation for Washington's tormented character, and Scott's stylistic excess compensates for a distended plot that's both repellently violent and viscerally absorbing. Among Scott's more distracting techniques is the use of free-roaming, comic-bookish subtitles... even when they're unnecessary! Adapted from a novel by A.J. Quinnell and previously filmed as a 1987 vehicle for Scott Glenn, Man on Fire is roughly on par with Scott's similar 1990 film Revenge, efficiently satisfying Washington's incendiary bloodlust under a heavy blanket of humid, doom-laden atmosphere. --Jeff Shannon |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Simply good movie |
| I really liked this movie a lot. Director and all actors did a great job, the plot was interesting, great photography. I do not like the violence in the movies, but this one I could handle, even though I would like it better if there was less of it. Highly recommended to those who like good thrillers. One of the best movies I have seen recently. | |
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