Man on Fire  enlarge Director: Tony Scott Actors: Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Marc Anthony, Radha Mitchell Studio: 20th Century Fox Category: DVD List Price: $14.98 Buy New: $5.71 as of 2/8/2012 02:15 CST details You Save: $9.27 (62%) In Stock New (63) Used (289) Collectible (5) from $0.97 Seller: MovieMars Sales Rank: 2,138 Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Widescreen, NTSC Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: R (Restricted) Region: 1 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 146 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 MPN: FOXD2223966D UPC: 024543139652 EAN: 0024543139652 ASIN: B00005JN0W Release Date: September 14, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Features:   •  Condition: New   •  Format: DVD   •  Color; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Widescreen; NTSC Similar Items: Inside Man (Widescreen Edition) Training Day (Snapcase Packaging) Taken (Single-Disc Extended Edition) John Q. (Infinifilm Edition) Deja Vu Editorial Reviews: Description Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy (Washington) has given up on life--until his friend Rayburn (Oscar winner Christopher Walken) gets him a job as a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning). Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, Creasy unleashes a firestorm of apocalyptic vengeance against everyone responsible. Amazon.com 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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