man on fire
one word...brilliant
the movie is a must watch movie. tony scott does an excellent job, not to mention denzel who is good as always. he plays john creasy, ex-military men, recruited by some weathy south american to be his daughters bodyguard. i guess you know by now how the story goes, girl gets attached to bodyguard, girl gets kidnapped, bodyguard dedicates his life in saving her. thats where you're wrong. see denzel plays a guy who's got demons haunting him from his past, about what he did as military assassin. he has practically given up hope in life or finding redemption for what he s done. he becomes an alcoholic (see the way denzel turns up at the beginning of the movie, with his enshaved face, awesome). thus befriending this little girl who shows him, it's okay to live again. but it's all taken away. denzel goes on this rampage killing. i mean terminator 1 kinda of rampage killing. he grabs hold of this guy, who he wants to extort information from, so he duct tapes his hands to the steering wheel than cuts of his finger one by one, the burns it with the car cigi litter...vicious i tell you. he has this killer look in his eyes and you cleary see no remorse. every hit (kill) gives him some kinda state of extacy. there is one scene where he stucks up c4 up a guys ass and gives him 5minutes to spill, then blows his ass up, literally speaking. and all the time he is tied up to the bonet of a car. well i have to say he does have a fetish or demolishing the fingers of people.
the brilliance of tony scott bringing those flashes in between is so good. i love the way how the film quality changes in one single scene from movie to viewcam. the movie isn't exactly one with powerful dialoges, but there are a few good ones.
now somebody has please got to tell me if this one is based on a true story? couse it somehow did come out like that. okay for those of you thinking this is gonna be a fast pace action/thriller kinda of movie, you're dead wrong. it's got that clint eastwood 'unforgiven' flavor to it. remarkable shots of mexico city by the way, the thing that really struck a cord with me was that they had christopher walken in the movie, and he played a very small role in it. they should have exploited him more.
all in all i'd say the movie is another one under denzel's belt of excellent films, along the lines of 'the hurricane', 'malcom x', 'john q', 'crimson tide', 'training days', 'remember the titans' and of course the one where he missed out on the oscars, 'philadelphia'. well i must watch his next release 'the manchurian candidate' and 'tru blu' which i think has just gone into production.
movie buff signing out, over and out....
the movie is a must watch movie. tony scott does an excellent job, not to mention denzel who is good as always. he plays john creasy, ex-military men, recruited by some weathy south american to be his daughters bodyguard. i guess you know by now how the story goes, girl gets attached to bodyguard, girl gets kidnapped, bodyguard dedicates his life in saving her. thats where you're wrong. see denzel plays a guy who's got demons haunting him from his past, about what he did as military assassin. he has practically given up hope in life or finding redemption for what he s done. he becomes an alcoholic (see the way denzel turns up at the beginning of the movie, with his enshaved face, awesome). thus befriending this little girl who shows him, it's okay to live again. but it's all taken away. denzel goes on this rampage killing. i mean terminator 1 kinda of rampage killing. he grabs hold of this guy, who he wants to extort information from, so he duct tapes his hands to the steering wheel than cuts of his finger one by one, the burns it with the car cigi litter...vicious i tell you. he has this killer look in his eyes and you cleary see no remorse. every hit (kill) gives him some kinda state of extacy. there is one scene where he stucks up c4 up a guys ass and gives him 5minutes to spill, then blows his ass up, literally speaking. and all the time he is tied up to the bonet of a car. well i have to say he does have a fetish or demolishing the fingers of people.
the brilliance of tony scott bringing those flashes in between is so good. i love the way how the film quality changes in one single scene from movie to viewcam. the movie isn't exactly one with powerful dialoges, but there are a few good ones.
now somebody has please got to tell me if this one is based on a true story? couse it somehow did come out like that. okay for those of you thinking this is gonna be a fast pace action/thriller kinda of movie, you're dead wrong. it's got that clint eastwood 'unforgiven' flavor to it. remarkable shots of mexico city by the way, the thing that really struck a cord with me was that they had christopher walken in the movie, and he played a very small role in it. they should have exploited him more.
all in all i'd say the movie is another one under denzel's belt of excellent films, along the lines of 'the hurricane', 'malcom x', 'john q', 'crimson tide', 'training days', 'remember the titans' and of course the one where he missed out on the oscars, 'philadelphia'. well i must watch his next release 'the manchurian candidate' and 'tru blu' which i think has just gone into production.
movie buff signing out, over and out....
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