This movie’s plot is based in Mexico, where an ex-CIA agent who is sworn to protect a family, is now on a hunt to avenge people who did wrong to that family.
I'm recommending Man on Fire for that bold style, its unapologetic comic book story arc, and the great performances from Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken and young Dakota Fanning.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
March 30, 2005
Visually the film is nice, but the images are in service to a violent and ugly film.
Common Sense Media
December 25, 2010
Extremely violent; not for kids.
Village Voice
April 27, 2004
Intentional or not, Man on Fire's over-the-top evocation of Christian retribution goes a long way to making this otherwise standard revenge fantasy watchable.
Despite a red-hot performance by Washington as the antiheroic, self-annihilating title character, the film as a whole, while possessing a kind of vicious beauty, feels as cold and as embalmed as a corpse.
Panorama
February 25, 2005
Un bon divertissement de masse, non exempt d'intelligence.
ColeSmithey.com
May 08, 2009
"Man On Fire" is remake of a notoriously dreadful 1987 movie, based on the same-titled novel by A.J. Quinnell, and it fares little better here with Tony Scott ("Spy Game") directing with a flamboyant use of flashy subtitles and camera techniques lifted f
Suffice it to say nothing about this pumped-up, hyperthyroidal Tony Scott revenge flick makes sense, but it takes two hours to kill off as many people and demolish as many vehicles as Charles Bronson used to do in 30 minutes.
