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Name: Man on Fire
Director: Tony Scott
Genre: action, drama, thriller
Released: 2004
Duration: 2 h 26 min
Rating: 7.7

Man on Fire has an iRankMovies score of 60.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Man on Fire (2004)

Creasy's art is death, and he is about to paint his masterpiece.

Release:2004

Runtime:2h 26m

Country:Switzerland

Director:Tony Scott

Language:English

Genre

ActionDramaThriller

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Keywords

MexicoMexico City MexicoBased On Novel Or BookKidnappingBodyguardDiaryBibleRemake

iRank61

Man on Fire rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.7/10· 420K votes

Rotten Tomatoes39%

Metacritic47%

TMDb7.5/10· 6K votes

With 39% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.7/10 on IMDb and 47/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Man on Fire

Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.

Cast of Man on Fire

Denzel Washington
as John W. Creasy
Dakota Fanning
as Lupita Ramos
Christopher Walken
as Paul Rayburn
Radha Mitchell
as Lisa Ramos
Marc Anthony
as Samuel Ramos
Giancarlo Giannini
as Miguel Manzano
Rachel Ticotin
as Mariana Garcia Guerrero
Mickey Rourke
as Jordan Kalfus
Roberto Sosa
as Daniel Sanchez
Jesús Ochoa
as Victor Fuentes
Gero Camilo
as Aurelio Sanchez
Mario Zaragoza
as Jorge Gonzalez

Man on Fire facts

Budget: $70M
Box office: $130.3M

Our take on Man on Fire

Tony Scott's 2004 thriller pairs a burnt-out ex-CIA operative with the child he's hired to guard, then detonates that bond into a story of grief and retribution. John Creasy takes a reluctant bodyguard job for a ten-year-old girl in Mexico City; their prickly relationship softens into genuine attachment, and when she's kidnapped he becomes an unstoppable force bent on getting her back. Scott shoots it in a jittery, saturated style that mirrors Creasy's fury, foregrounding emotion as much as violence. It's for viewers who like intense revenge dramas anchored by a wounded protagonist rather than clean escapism. A punishing, feeling-driven action piece about loyalty pushed past its limit.

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