Huh?
Remember the scene in Heathers, with the lunch time poll question? Suppose you win 2 million dollars on the same day aliens land and say they're going to blow up the earth. How would you spend your money?
Remember the stoners? Specifically the stoner dude who was all, "You go to the zoo, and you get a lion. You stick a remote-controlled bomb up its butt..."
That's the coolest fucking part of Man on Fire.
What you have instead of lions is Denzel Washington as a drunk ex-Marine dude who's hanging out with Christopher Walken in Latin America, and goes to work as a bodyguard for Marc Anthony who, for some reason, has a really white, blonde daughter (Dakota Fanning).
As you know from the trailers, things go wrong, and Denzel is pissed! You do not want to fuck with this dude, I am not kidding. A shitload of people get tortured, shot, blown up or otherwise made to suffer and expire. It's pretty graphic and disturbing. And awesome.
The trailers ticked me off a little at first, because it looked like they gave everything away. It's not true, and what they did give away works to the advantage of the movie. You spend an hour or so getting to know the characters of the bodyguard and the girl, you see their friendship devlop and their characters change. It's cool, but it's terrible, because you know what's going to happen. Then, it does, and the next hour and a half is Denzel going medieval on a whole bunch of asses. Which, as has been stated = awesome.
Definitely worth watching. Interesting and cool. Very long, a sometime slow, but all in all, really a good choice for a rental.
