Man on Fire (2004 film)

Man on Fire is a 2004 American thriller film and the second adaptation of A. J. Quinnells 1980 fictional novel of the same name the first film based on the novel was released in 1987. The 2004 film adaptation was directed by Tony Scott, from a screenplay written by Brian Helgeland.

In 2003, burntout exCIA officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy Denzel Washington becomes a mercenary and looks for work and reunites with old friend and comrade Paul Rayburn Christopher Walken, who runs a security firm in Mexico. Because of the extremely high rate of kidnappings in Mexico City for ransom money, businessman Samuel Ramos Marc Anthony hires Creasy through Rayburn to guard his nineyearold daughter Pita Dakota Fanning, intending to keep him on for only a short period in order to renew his kidnap and ransom insurance on Pita. Creasy suffers from alcoholism, depression and severe guilt as a result of his past work as a counterinsurgency fighter and assassin, and so works for Samuel at a rate far below what his experience would command. At first Creasy distances himself socially from Pita, but the two soon develop a friendship, which allows Creasy to overcome his demons and to act as a mentor and surrogate fatherfigure to the girl.After a piano lesson, Pita is abducted in public. Creasy kills four of the kidnappers including two corrupt policemen, but he is shot multiple times and collapses. Creasy is hospitalized but is moved to a veterinarian hospital by Miguel Manzano Giancarlo Giannini, an agent of the Agencia Federal de Investigacin AFI, who suspects Creasy is an assassination target by rogue police. Meanwhile, the Ramoses agree to deliver a dead drop ransom of US10 million per the instructions of La Voz The Voice Roberto Sosa, the mastermind behind the kidnapping ring. Samuels attorney, Jordan Kalfus Mickey Rourke, arranges for the ransom money to be collected from Samuels kidnapping insurance policy, then arranges for it to be delivered to the kidnappers. The drop, however, is ambushed by members of La Hermandad, a Mexican crime syndicate composed of corrupt police officers, leading to several of the ring members killed and the money being stolen. The Voice notifies the Ramos that Pita will be killed in retribu

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