Man on Fire
Director: Tony Scott
Genre: Thriller, Crime Fiction, Drama
Year: 2004
Country: United States of America, United Kingdom
Language: Spanish Language, English Language
Starring: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Giannini, Radha Mitchell, Mickey Rourke, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin, Angelina Peláez, Jesús Ochoa, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Gero Camilo, Rosa María Hernández, Heriberto Del Castillo, Mario Zaragoza, Javier Torres Zaragoza
Man on Fire is a 2004 American thriller film, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell. Another film based on the same novel was also filmed in 1987.
Man on Fire stars Denzel Washington as a despondent former CIA operative turned bodyguard. It also stars Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin and Mickey Rourke.
Because of the extremely high rate of kidnappings in Mexico City for ransom money, businessman Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony) hires former Marine Force Recon officer and CIA operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) to guard his nine year-old daughter "Pita" (Dakota Fanning). At first Creasy distances himself socially from Pita, but the two develop a friendship.
After a piano lesson, Pita is abducted in public and Creasy is shot multiple times. The Ramos' agree to deliver a dead drop ransom of US$10 million per the instructions of "The Voice" (Roberto Sosa), the mastermind of the kidnapping ring. The drop, however, is ambushed by members of a Mexican crime syndicate and the money is stolen, resulting in The Voice notifying the Ramoses that Pita will not be returned.
Upon hearing the news, Creasy
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