Man on Fire is a 2004 action thriller film directed by Tony Scott from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland, and based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. The novel had previously been adapted into a feature film in 1987. In this film, Denzel Washington portrays John Creasy, a despondent, alcoholic former CIA SAD/SOG officer (and U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance captain) turned bodyguard, who goes on a revenge rampage after his charge, nine-year-old Lupita Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning), is abducted in Mexico City. The supporting cast includes Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin and Mickey Rourke.

The film received mixed reviews. It grossed $130 million worldwide against a production budget of $60–70 million.

Plot

Former CIA SAD/SOG officer John W. Creasy visits his old friend Paul Rayburn in Mexico. Rayburn convinces him to take a bodyguard position with Samuel Ramos, a Mexico City automaker whose young daughter Lupita Pita requires a bodyguard for her kidnapping insurance policy to take effect. Struggling with alcoholism, burnout, and guilt over his actions with the CIA, Creasy tries to commit suicide but the bullet in his gun misfires. While coaching Pita to become a more confident swimmer, he bonds with her.

Waiting outside Pita’s piano lesson, Creasy recognizes a car that followed them earlier, as two Federal Police officers block the street. Realizing that Pita is about to be abducted, Creasy kills four of the attackers including the officers but is critically wounded and Pita is taken. Recovering from his injuries, Creasy is declared a suspect, but reporter Mariana Garcia Guerrero questions the story. AFI agent Miguel Manzano relocates Creasy to a veterinary clinic to protect him from corrupt police.

The Voice, leader of the kidnapping ring, demands a $10 million ransom and Samuel complies, with the help of police Lt. Victor Fuentes. However, the kidnappers are ambushed at the ransom drop and the Voice’s nephew is killed. Holding the Ramoses responsible, the Voice informs them that Pita will be lost to them forever as retribution. Guerrero warns Creasy that the kidnappers belong to a powerful “brotherhood” called La Hermandad that consists of corrupt officials, police, and criminals, but Creasy promises Pita’s mother, Lisa, that he will kill everyone responsible for Pita s death.

With Rayburn’s help, Creasy obtains a small arsenal of weapons and equipment. He brutally interrogates and kills the getaway driver, who points him to a club where he confronts three of the kidnappers. Killing middleman Jersey Boy and another criminal, Creasy recovers an incriminating ATM card and another kidnapped girl. He turns both over to Guerrero, who reveals that Fuentes is part of the brotherhood. Manzano interviews Rayburn, who describes Creasy as an “artist of death.”

Guerrero convinces Manzano to help Creasy wage war against the kidnappers. Waylaying Fuentes’ motorcade with a rocket-propelled grenade, Creasy abducts the officer, who admits that he had his officers ambush the ransom drop, but discovered afterward most of the ransom money had already been stolen by Jordan Kalfus, Samuel s lawyer. After killing Fuentes with a bomb in his rectum, Creasy searches Kalfus’ home and finds his decapitated body and a fax with bank account information leading to Samuel.

Creasy confronts the Ramoses, and Samuel confesses that Kalfus suggested they arrange Pita’s kidnapping to claim the insurance payout to pay his father s debts, though they were promised Pita would be unharmed. When Fuentes interfered with the drop, Samuel blamed Kalfus for Pita s death and killed him. Lisa, unaware of Samuel s involvement, angrily tells Creasy to kill her husband or she’ll do it herself; he leaves Samuel a gun and the bullet he attempted suicide with, and a remorseful Samuel shoots himself.

Guerrero and Manzano trace the ATM card to the Voice’s wife and find her address, allowing Manzano s officers to infiltrate her home and obtain a photo of the Voice. Despite the brotherhood’s threats, Guerrero publishes the photo and passes the address on to Creasy. Taking the Voice’s wife and his brother Aurelio prisoner, Creasy is shot in the chest but learns the ringleader’s real name is Daniel Sanchez. He calls Daniel and threatens his family, but Daniel reveals that Pita is alive, offering to trade her for his brother and for Creasy, which Creasy accepts.

Instructing Lisa to join him at the exchange, Creasy reunites with Pita in the middle of an overpass, assuring her that he loves her before sending her to her mother. He and Aurelio are taken by Daniel’s men, but Creasy succumbs to his wounds. Manzano tracks Daniel down later that day and shoots him dead “during the course of arrest.”

Cast

• Denzel Washington as John W. Creasy, a former CIA operative and U.S. Marine Force Recon Captain turned mercenary
• Dakota Fanning as Guadalupe Lupita (Pita) Ramos
• Radha Mitchell as Lisa Ramos, an American expatriate from Houston, Texas.
• Christopher Walken as Paul Rayburn, who runs a security firm in Mexico. Marlon Brando was originally considered but his poor health prevented him from taking the role
• Marc Anthony as Samuel Ramos
• Giancarlo Giannini as Miguel Manzano, director of the AFI. Tony Scott stated Giancarlo loves women, as did this character.
• Mickey Rourke as Jordan Kalfus, Samuel Ramos lawyer. Kalfus and Samuel Ramos s father were best friends, and therefore Kalfus has a close relationship with Samuel. Mickey Rourke stated that Kalfus has a responsibility to his father, to him, to look out for his well-being. Therefore, Kalfus to be there for him when Ramos gets his head underwater a little bit .
• Rachel Ticotin as Mariana Garcia Guerrero, a reporter for the Diario Reforma
• Roberto Sosa as Daniel Sanchez, The Voice . He is based on a real kidnapper, Daniel Arizmendi López.
• Jesús Ochoa as Victor Fuentes, a lieutenant in the Anti-Kidnapping Division of the Federal Judicial Police and the head of the criminal La Hermandad syndicate
• Carmen Salinas as Guardian three
• Gero Camilo as Aurelio Sanchez. Based on Aurelio Arizmendi López, the brother of Daniel Arizmendi López.
• Rosa María Hernández as Maria Rosas Sanchez, wife of The Voice.
• Charles Paraventi as Jersey Boy, proprietor of the rave in Neza and an accomplice to Pita s kidnapping.
• Mario Zaragoza as Jorge Gonzalez, a Federal Judicial Policeman and member of the criminal La Hermandad syndicate, who physically kidnaps Pita off the street

Production

Tony Scott, the film s director, had tried to adapt the 1980 source novel, by A. J. Quinnell, into a film in 1983. Journalist Paul Davies theorized that movie producers likely believed that Scott, whose only directorial work as of the time was 1983 s The Hunger, lacked the experience to direct this as his second film.

The novel was first adapted into the 1987 film Man on Fire, starring Scott Glenn as Creasy. This movie, like the novel, was set in Italy, then a major center of kidnapping.

When a remake was first under consideration, producer Arnon Milchan (who also produced the 1987 version) looked at Michael Bay and Antoine Fuqua to direct, before asking Scott if he was still interested.

20th Century Fox wanted the film to still be set in Italy. An early draft of the script was set in Naples, with early reporting suggesting that the Mexico City filming was an odd stand in for Naples. Scott argued that if the setting would be Italy, then the film would have to be a period piece, since by the 2000s kidnappings had become a rare occurrence in Italy. Mexico City became the setting of the 2004 film because Mexico City had a high kidnapping rate, and for other reasons unspecified. As a result, the character Rika Balletto was renamed Lisa Martin Ramos, and Pinta Balletto was renamed Lupita Pita Ramos. Ettore Balletto became Samuel Ramos. Robert De Niro was originally offered the role of Creasy. Marlon Brando was the original choice to play Rayburn.

Reception

Man on Fire opened in the U.S. on April 23, 2004, in 2,980 theaters and grossed $22,751,490 with an average of $7,634 and ranking No. 1 at the box office. The film s widest release was 2,986 theaters and it ended up earning $77,911,774 in North America and $52,381,940 internationally for a total of $130,293,714 worldwide, against its $60–70 million production budget. The film was successful in the U.S. home video market, grossing more than $123 million in DVD and VHS rentals and sales in U.S.

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 38% based on 169 reviews, with an average rating of 5.30/10. The consensus states, Man on Fire starts out well, but goes over the top in the violent second half. On Metacritic the film has a score of 47 out of 100 based on 36 reviews, indicating mixed or average reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A- on scale of A to F.

Paul Davies, a journal article author, said that the critical reception to Man on Fire in the United States was somewhat less than kind because critics did not like the vigilantism that Creasy uses. Davies argues that most critics missed Creasy not taking sadistic pleasure in the killings since he kills to get information to get to all of the people involved in the kidnapping of Pita Ramos, and does not like harming innocent parties.

A. J. Quinnell had a favorable reception to this adaptation, mainly because the film used many of the book s lines. Quinnell said that usually screenwriters like to leave their mark on the product. Quinnell added that even though he usually dislikes film adaptations of books, the writers did a good job with Man On Fire and I loved the chemistry between Creasy and the girl and When I first heard Denzel was playing the part of Creasy I missed a couple of heartbeats but he played the part brilliantly. The film is violent and if the anger is not portrayed properly, the result can be awful. Kevin Freese of the Foreign Military Studies Office stated that it appears that the allusion of the fictional Sánchez brothers with the real Arizmendi brothers escaped the comprehension of much of the audience.

Accolades

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Year	Award	Category	Candidate	Result
2004	Golden Schmoes Awards	Best Supporting Actress of the Year	Dakota Fanning	Nominated
2005	BMI Film & TV Awards	Premio IMC Film Music	Man on Fire	Won
2005	Critics Choice Movie Awards	Best Young Actress	Dakota Fanning	Nominated
2005	Golden Trailer Awards	Best Action Movie	Man on Fire	Nominated
2005	Golden Trailer Awards	Best Action Movie – Drama	Man on Fire	Nominated
2005	NAACP Image Awards	Best Outstanding Feature Film	Man on Fire	Nominated
2005	NAACP Image Awards	Best Actor	Denzel Washington	Nominated
2005	Young Artist Awards	Best Young Actress	Dakota Fanning	Nominated

Soundtrack

The cut Smiling , from the soundtrack composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, has been adopted as the theme of a number of television commercials for Omega Watches in 2012 to 2013. The soundtrack containing 20 tracks, was composed by Harry Gregson-Williams, and was released on July 27, 2004.

The film heavily features the work of Nine Inch Nails. Trent Reznor is credited as Musical Consultant . The movie features six Nine Inch Nails songs.

Remake

In 2005, a Hindi remake of the film by director Apoorva Lakhia, called Ek Ajnabee, was released. It starred Amitabh Bachchan as the lead (named Suryaveer Surya Singh). The same year, it was also remade in Tamil language as Aanai starring Arjun Sarja.

Condition

New

Publisher

Buena Vista Home Video

Format

DVD

Brand

Movie

Rating MPA

R

Recording Studio

Buena Vista Home Video

Age Group

Adult

Amazon ASIN

B00AQ77H7Q

UPC / EAN

024543139652

Year

2004

ReleaseDate

2004-04-23

RuntimeMins

146

RuntimeStr

2h 26min

Awards

Awards, 1 win & 7 nominations

Directors

Tony Scott

Writers

A.J. Quinnell, Brian Helgeland

Stars

Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning

Produced by

Don Ferrarone, Lucas Foster, Conrad Hool, Lance Hool, Kimberly Jacobs-Toeg, Arnon Milchan, Tony Scott, James W. Skotchdopole, Peter Toumasis

Music by

Harry Gregson-Williams

Cinematography by

Paul Cameron

Film Editing by

Christian Wagner

Casting By

Bonnie Timmermann

Production Design by

Benjamín Fernández, Chris Seagers

Art Direction by

Héctor Romero

Set Decoration by

Elli Griff

Costume Design by

Louise Frogley

Makeup Department

Gerardo Perez Arreola, Larry M. Cherry, Nathaniel De Lineadeus, Carl Fullerton, Marco A. Garcia, Eduardo Gómez, Susan Howard, Graham Johnston, Chris Lyons, Araceli Rios, David Ruiz Gameros, Ellen Wong

Production Management

Conrad Hool, Thomas A. Imperato, Kelly Kiernan, Anna Roth, Carlos Taibo, Michael Tinger, Patrick Esposito

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

E. Langston Craig, Adrian Grunberg, Frank Kostenko Jr., Berenice Manjarrez Vericat, John Wildermuth, Emma Horton, Adam Somner

Art Department

Yael Jiminez Armada, Jorge Barba, John Beauvais, Carlos Benassini, Vanessa Bryant, Denise Camargo, Emanuel Castañon, Miguel Cervantes, Lisa Chugg, Vida Corona, Gilberto Cortes, Alejandra Cuervo, Alejandro Fernández, Daniel Gallardo, Juan Manuel Garcia, Juan Manuel García Barrera, Rick Gleitsman, Antonio Godínez, Guillermo Granados, Panfilo Herrera Sanchez, Barbara Horcasitas, Ricardo M. Kaplan, Antonio Lopez Martinez, Natalia Lula López Diaz, Margarito López, Tatiana Maganda, Alberto Marquez, René Marquéz, Jose Luis Ruiz Mejia, Gerardo Mendez Juarez, Jose Luis Mendez Ramirez, Rafael Jaime Mendéz, Marisa Miller, Nick Milner, Juan Jose Montemayor, Mily Moreno, Leonel Pérez Nobles, Juan Manuel Osorio, Carmen Pierson, Israel Pineda Juarez, Marco Antonio Pineda Juarez, Moises Pineda, Mickey Pugh, Graeme Purdy, Germán Ramírez Vera, Manuel Reséndiz, Andrés Reyes, Hugo A. Reyes, Roberto Reyna, Saul Rodriguez Bernal, Gerardo R. Rodriguéz M., Daniela Rojas, Saúl Rosales, Miguel Angel Herrera Sanchez, Guillermo Serrano, Bob Sherwood, Adan Sierra, Mark Swain, Victor Manuel Tapia, Ivano Todeschi, Mario Torres Sanchez, Jose A. Villafanez, Ariel Villasana, Ben Zeller, Evelyn Zeller, Jorge Julio Zepeda, Julieta Álvarez, Denise Camargo, Daniela Rojas

Sound Department

Ulrika Akander, Randle Akerson, David A. Arnold, James Ashwill, Odin Benitez, Beau Borders, Fred Burke, Willie D. Burton, David V. Butler, Rick Canelli, Toby Chu, John T. Cucci, Teri E. Dorman, Juno J. Ellis, John P. Fasal, Matthew Harrison, Denise Horta, Suhail Kafity, Nicholas Korda, David Lai, James Likowski, Melissa Lytle, Victoria Martin, Alan Meyerson, F. Hudson Miller, Dan O Connell, Kevin O Connell, Thomas J. O Connell, R.J. Palmer, Douglas Parker, Greg P. Russell, Leon Sandoval, Dan Sharp, Gregg Silk, Gary A. Theard, George Watters II, Gary Wright, Bruce Maddocks, John Soukup

Special Effects by

Antonio Cornejo, Jesus G. Duran, Adrián Durán, Fermín Durán, Juan Durán, Sergio Gomez

Visual Effects by

Blondel Aidoo, Christopher S. Baird, Brian Cuscino, Fefo Desouza, Steven Fagerquist, David Feinner, Adam Frazier, Christopher Grandel, Brian Jennings, Zach Justman, Joe Ken, Peter Koczera, Derek Ledbetter, Emma McGuinness, Nathan McGuinness, Shannon Noble, Kosta Saric, Marc Varisco, Johnny Wilson, Steve Muangman, Bradley Powell, Gerald Ragland, John Scheer, Chuck Toussieng

Stunts

Fidel Abrego, Hugo Aguilera, Gerardo Albarrán, Alejandro Avendano, Omar Ayala, Paul Borne, Bob Brown, Balo Bucio, Julian Bucio, Jose De La Luz, Alejandro de la Peña, O.L. Duke, Daniel Díaz, Antonio Gallegos, Raul Garcia, Leonardo Godinez, Arturo Godínez, Eduardo Gomez, Tomás Guzmán, Noel Arturo Hernandez Montalvo, José Luis Jiménez, Armando Juárez, Shawn Kautz, Felipe Lopez, Raul Lopez, Arturo Marroquin, Gabriela Moreno, Karla Moreno, Juan Carlos Olalde, Juan Olaldo, Jamie Ortiz, Chuck Picerni Jr., Robert Powell, Dionisio Ramirez, Alfredo Ramírez, Carlos Rodriguez, Marco Rodríguez, Niria Salinas, Gerardo Soublette, Hector Tabares, Rafael Valdez, Juan Manuel Vilchis, Cody Weselis, Gerardo Albarrán, Ignacio Arteaga, Manuel Poncelis, Alan D. Purwin, Dana Kristen Vahle

Camera and Electrical Department

Jose Luis Anzaga, Alfredo Audel, Miguel Avilez Betancourt, Wayne Baker, Thomas A. Barrios, Corwin A. Bibb, Donald Burghardt, Christian Camacho, Víctor Camacho, Joaquin Cervera, César Charlone, Ian Clampett, Gregory Paul Collier, John T. Connor, Gustavo Covarrubias, Ricardo Covarrubias, Salvador De Gante, Tim Durr, Fernando Díaz Torres, Paul A. Edwards, John J. Ellingwood, Manuel García, Jesus Moroco Gonzalez, Pedro González, Carlos Gris, Luis Lara Guerrero, Hector Gutierrez, Isaac Gómez, Keith Hamshere, Edgar Hurtado, Jacques Jouffret, Juan Lizarraga, Leonardo Magdaleno, Joe Angel Martinez, James McMillan, Steven Meizler, Rafael Pache Mejía, Carlos Mendoza, Mark Meyers, Fabián Monroy, David Morton, Noe Muñoz, Omar Muñoz, David B. Nowell, Stephanie Ormonde, Eduardo Oviedo, Justin Owen, Rhys Owen, Francisco Jaime Pastrana, Patricio Pereda, Israel Páez, Víctor Manuel Ramírez, Deborah Ricketts, Felix Rivera, Juan Carlos Rodriguez P., Guillermo Rosas, Jose Luis Sanchez, Luis David Sansans, John Skotchdopole, Juan Pablo Somohano, Carlos Somonte, Stephen St. John, Carlos Sánchez, Humberto Sánchez, Craig Vaccaro, Stephen Vaughan, Mauricio Vega, Raymundo Verde, Jürgen Vollmer, Phil Walker, Dominic Walton, Steve Watson, John Watters, Maryan Zurek, Tim Durr, Luis Enrique Granados, Iwao Kawasaki, Gary Lowrance, Mark Meyers, Diego Quemada-Díez

Casting Department

Jose Cabrera, Sarah Garcia-Rill, Jorge Guerrero, Sonia Guerrero, Barbara Harris, Carla Hool, Claudia Palacies, Elvira Richards, Manuel Teil, Jessica Valencia, Lizbeth Villegas, Berenice Percival, Francisco Veyro, Stephen Vincent

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Rocio Ceja, Javier Delgado, Pedro Raúl Flores, Joyce Kogut, Jose Luis Montero, Mónica Neumaier, Christine Orth, Lupita Peckinpah, Leticia Pichardo, Jonny Pray, Adolfo Ramírez, Pedro Rodriguéz, Rufino Rodríguez, Frank Perry Rose

Editorial Department

Gary Burritt, Skip Chaisson, Fred Chandler, Rob Doolittle, Robert Duffy, Leigh Folsom Boyd, Bruce Goodman, Shane Harris, Jim Passon, Christopher Reichel, Erik Rogers, Craig W. Smith, Stefan Sonnenfeld, Ron South, Mike Sowa, Mike Chiado, Valance Eisleben, Joe Hathaway, Daniel Lee, Lonnie A. Mathes, Mark Todd Osborne, Missy Papageorge, Jesse Petrilla, John Scheer, Jason Wasserman, Daniel Yang

Location Management

Stuart Raven Barter, Analeine Cal y Mayor, Javier Del Rio, Richard Klotz, Claudia Montero, Juan Pablo Noval, Katy Polgovsky, Janice Polley, Horacio Rodríguez, Isthar Rosales, Fernando Uriegas, Alejandro Vázquez, Michael Charske, Horacio Rodriguez De Zamacona, Adrian Enriquez, Barbara Miller, Carlos Muñoz Portal, Alejandro Uriegas

Music Department

Stephen Barton, Christine Bergren, Robb Boyd, Tom Boyd, Justin Caine Burnett, Toby Chu, Peter DiStefano, Meri Gavin, Lisa Gerrard, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hybrid, Masud Ibn Khan, Mike Knobloch, Costa Kotselas, Robert Kraft, Kory Kruckenberg, Hugh Marsh, Alan Meyerson, Gretchen O Neal, Heitor Pereira, Robert Puff, Trent Reznor, Thom Russo, Jon Schluckebier, Gregg Silk, Kathie Talbot, Brian Valentino, Richard Whitfield, Kirk Bennett, Toby Chu, Marcello De Francisci, Sandy DeCrescent, Meri Gavin, Ellen Ginsburg, David Lai, Rebecca Morellato, Dan Navarro, Heitor Pereira, David Sabee, Tom Trafalski, Mel Wesson

Script and Continuity Department

Karin Anderson, Julie Pitkanen

Transportation Department

Julio Bolanos, Arturo Curiel, Ricardo Díaz Avilés, Sergio Galicia, Ricardo Gallarzo Jr., Randy Guillory, William P. Lafon, Alain Madera, Steve Mann, Antonio Molina, Manuel Paredes Murillo, Romualdo Pedraza, Pilar Rosales Urdaybay, Hector Salomon, Alejandro Soto, Joey Freitas, Alfonso Paredes, Jesus Quinones, Patrick A. Reynolds Jr.

Additional Crew

Luis Aguilar, Richard Alderete, Jesús Almontes, Armando Amador, Jesse Aranda, Marcela Arevalo, Ana Ballesteros, Jose Manuel Ballesteros, Michael Merrit Bay, Charles Bazaldua, Matthew Thomas Blair, Denise Blasor, Mauricio Brito, Robby D. Bruce, Shelbie Bruce, Karla Bukantz, Sean Byrne, Guillermo Memo Carreño, Jan Cerwonka, Brad Combs, Karissa Corday, Carol Dantuono, Stel Deleon, Peter Delgadillo, Robert J. Dohrmann, Kira Dominguez, Joy Ellison, David Fencl, Sam S Fernandes, Don Ferrarone, Ian Freeman, Suzie Freeman, Luis Fuentes Pimentel, Rossana Fuentes, Marcela Fuentes-Berain, Jessica Fawcett Garcia, Irma Garcia-Sinclair, Juan Carlos Garrido, Yuria Goded, Juan Gonzales, Jeanette Gonzalez, Stephanie Fitch Groff, A. Hugo Gutierrez Cuellar, Zeferino Gutierrez, Francis Hadinoto, Barbara Harris, Mónica Hernández, Alejandra Hochstrasser, Carla Hool, Guillermo Huesca, Judith Jennings, Jossara Jinaro, Michael Paul Jones, Penelope Kaufer, Kelly Kiernan, Hanna Kot, Lindsey Liberatore, Kenny Lopes, Sal Lopez, Mauricio Lule, Carlos Manzo, Ivan Martínez Lomelí, Luis Aguilar Maxi, David Michie, Osvaldo Montes de Oca, Daniel Mora, Vanessa Morales, Tom Moran, Carlos Moreno Jr., Vivianne Nacif, Juan Carlos Novarro M., Levi Nunez, Rocío Ortega, Edward Padilla, Michael Papac, Billy Parks, Armando Patino, Stacy Perskie, Thatcher Peterson, Alan D. Purwin, Michyl-Shannon Quilty, Oscar Reboreda, Luis Reyes, Rodrigo Tuero Reyes, Erika Robledo, Julian Rodriguez, Eduardo Roman, Gabriel Romero, Don Rosche, Neville Shulman, Stacy Solomon, Stefan Sonnenfeld, Norman Sotolongo, Jason Sterman, Carlos Buho Tames, Tink Ten Eyck, Bram Tester, Alejandro Topete, Armando A. Torres, Tania Amador Torres, Ernesto Trejo, Lee Tucker, Cecilia Ulrich, Fernando Urdapilleta, Belinda Uriegas, Dana Kristen Vahle, Julian Chico Valdez, Julia Vera, Tanya Vidal, Rosa Isela Villegas, Stephanie Wander, Asajiro Yamamoto, Richard Yniguez, Yoko Merino Yoshioka, Ruth Zalduondo, Jesús Ansaldo, Sherrie Bradshaw, Mario de Mendoza, Liam Ford, Charles Heaphy, Julio Quezada Orozco, Darius Siwek, Simon Staines, Fabian Valdez, Sara-Jane Valentine, Valeria Villalobos

Thanks

Mike Rizzuto, Kzar Torres

Genres

Action, Crime, Drama

Companies

Fox 2000 Pictures, New Regency Productions, Scott Free Productions

Countries

Switzerland, UK, USA, Mexico

Languages

English, Spanish

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

7.7

ImDb Rating Votes

364967

Metacritic Rating

47

Short Description

Man on Fire is a 2004 action thriller film directed by Tony Scott from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland, and based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. The novel had previously been adapted into a feature film in 1987. In this film, Denzel Washington portrays John Creasy, a despondent, alcoholic former CIA SAD/SOG officer (and U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance captain) turned bodyguard, who goes on a revenge rampage after his charge, nine-year-old Lupita Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning), is abducted in Mexico City. The supporting cast includes Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin and Mickey Rourke.

The film received mixed reviews. It grossed $130 million worldwide against a production budget of $60–70 million.

Box Office Budget

$70,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$22,751,490

Box Office Gross USA

$77,911,774

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$130,834,852

Keywords

Kidnapping,mexico,bodyguard,kidnapped girl,corrupt cop