Key comment from LordB while watching Man on Fire: This movie is so slow we can sit here doing play by play and not miss a thing. Tony Scott is a veteran director with plenty of taut thrillers in his past, so I don’t really understand why he didn’t cut the 146 minute run time down to 100-110. Almost every scene is bloated, slow, almost languid except when he’s doing his MTV thousand cuts per minute, shake the camera to make you dizzy imitation.

Denzel Washington is great, even trying to get through this morass, and he has great chemistry with Christopher Walken–why haven’t they worked together before? Dakota Fanning, if she doesn’t burn out, could be one of the great ones, she’s just intuitive and natural in all her scenes.

not recommended