![]() ![]() Denzel Washington makes the most of his role and Christopher Walken and Dakota Fanning assist him in making this a really deep and moving movie. I’m not going to give any more away but overall it is a very well made film. After the attempt at ransom falls through, he vows revenge against all who were involved and begins using his skills as an assassin to pick them off, using torture as a means to gain information on who he needs to locate next. Pita is kidnapped and Creasy is shot to within an inch of his life. But in an instant his new life is taken away. Little by little he feels like he can live again. However, she is persistent and grows on him even giving him a carving of St. ![]() He makes it known to her that this is just a job for him and he has no desire to be friends with her or even pretend to enjoy her company. Through a friend (Christopher Walken) he manages to secure a job as a bodyguard for a young girl named Pita (Dakota Fanning )down in Mexico City, where kidnapping people for ransom thrives. He has seen so much death he has lost the will to keep his own life. John Creasy (Denzel Washington) is a former CIA member who has sunk into depression, his best friend a flask at his side. Since I watched Man on Fire first I will start with my assessment of that. “A man can be an artist … in anything, food, whatever. They will use their various skills and resources to do what they have always done best: eliminating that evil! Both come to the brink of what they’re searching for only to have it snatched away by an unknown evil which thinks of human life only in economic terms. One a father, longing for a daughter’s love long lost, the other a man who has given up hope and reads the Bible thinking he cannot be redeemed for what he’s done. ![]()
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