Man on Fire Movie (2004)
In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect.
A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy's friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy's new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.
A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy's friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy's new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.
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One of my top 5 movies!
Not for the weak knees at times.
I look for value and meaning in movies to apply to life and communicate concepts in a burst of understanding with the shared movie experience with the magnified effectiveness of a picture worth a thousand words and a motion picture being 30 frames per second for about two hours being a lot of easily referenced or comparative content with just the mention of a movie title and noting a scene and applying it to a related concept, so, with that preface, if you want to know what will result from "Property Forfeiture" laws in Utah that makes law enforcement no longer dependent on the budget decided by an elected legislature and governor and can instead self-fund as the corruption in Mexico that is best understood by seeing this movie where exceptional skill, ability, resolve and dedication couldn't change a thing except the rescue of one victim, then see this movie and think about it with that in mind. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Now we have added this enticement to the criminal element to find it's way into our law enforcement community and displace the fine people that we typically have there now. Perhaps not right away, but the seed for it is planted and things take time to change, so how long will it take for Utah to become as depicted in this movie? I tried to stop the Property Forfeiture laws. Oh, did I mention that I'm politically active and trying to save the world? This movie has high value to understand what can go wrong and what must be avoided in our United States of America. Ask me more. Ronald H Levine :)
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy's friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy's new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.Details
- Rated: R
- Runtime: 2:26 hours
- Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
- Director: Tony Scott
- Writer: A.J. Quinnell (novel), Brian Helgeland (screenplay)
- Actors: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell, Christopher Walken
- Language: English, Spanish
- Country: USA, UK
- Awards: 1 win & 7 nominations
- Production Company: 20th Century Fox
- Box Office: $77,600,000
- ASIN: B0040OC1EA
- Year Released: 2004
- Release Date: Apr 22, 2004
- DVD Date: Sep 13, 2004
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