This was the film that I saw part of on the way into the US, and part of on the way out.
Dakota Fanning and Denzel Washington turn in decent performances in the Tony Scott suspense/thriller.
Denzel plays ex-military man Creasy, who takes on a bodyguard job in Mexico to escape his haunted past. (Chris Walken plays the friend who gets him the job. There's always room for Chris Walken.) He becomes the guardian angel of Peta (Dakota) who is the daughter of a wealthy family's scion (singer Marc Anthony) and his American wife. Yes, it's cool watching Dakky speak Spanish.
Peta of course gets kidnapped, and Creasy is on the case.
This was a well-paced film. Tony Scott lets the story build, and takes time to paint full pictures of Peta and Creasy and the Mexican environment around them. Man on Fire has that now-popular "dirty look" but thankfully with little of the shaky handheld camera crap that I hate so much.
Denzel and Dakky are competent, as always. The cast around them doesn't get enough time to develop, with perhaps the exception of Radha Mitchell (who plays Peta's mom).
Bottom Line: Not bad. Worth putting on your Netflix queue, or catching when it hits the HBO rotation.
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