He employs a multitude of whip pans, uses obscure camera angles, blurry hand-held shots and makes whole sequences appear out of focus for no apparent reason other than to be ‘arty’. The film’s downfall, however, is Tony Scott’s hyper-stylized direction, and the horribly disorientating cinematography by Paul Cameron, who previously shot Gone in Sixty Seconds and Swordfish. Man on Fire is, without a doubt, an excellent film, boasting several stand-out performances, especially from the intense Denzel Washington, and the thoroughly adorable Dakota Fanning, who looks destined to be a popular child actress for several years to come. Thinking the young girl is dead, and seeking retribution, Creasy embarks on a personal vendetta to seek out, and get even with, the perpetrators of the crime, whoever they may be. Seeing a chance for redemption in the eyes of a young girl, Creasy grows to be a part of the family unit – until young Pita is kidnapped by a gang of ruthless criminals. Tempted to come to Mexico by his old comrade Rayburn (Christopher Walken), Creasy takes the job as the bodyguard to a wealthy Ramos family – father Samuel (Marc Anthony), mother Lisa (Radha Mitchell), but specifically their precocious young daughter Pita (Dakota Fanning). A dark thriller about murder, kidnap and revenge – and a remake of a 1987 film of the same name, which was directed by Elie Chouraqui, starred Scott Glenn in the Denzel Washington role, and featured a score by John Scott – Man on Fire is directed by Tony Scott and stars Denzel Washington as John Creasy, a former US Government operative whose life in the military has driven him to drink, and the brink of suicide.
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