For what Man on Fire delivers, it's worth enduring Scott's hyperkinetic visual techniques.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
No one rises above the material, though, except for Walken, who looks pleased with the paycheck and the top-shelf tequila. As a shady lawyer, Mickey Rourke is smooth and funny, but recognizable only by his familiar purr.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Not too many R-rated revenge pics depend on "Uptown Girls'" Dakota Fanning for the stronger scenes. Yet once the 10-year-old star exits the picture, Man on Fire starts blowing a lot of smoke.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Employs superb craftsmanship and a powerful Denzel Washington performance in an attempt to elevate genre material above its natural level, but it fails. The underlying story isn't worth the effort.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: David Ng
Intentional or not, Man on Fire's over-the-top evocation of Christian retribution goes a long way to making this otherwise standard revenge fantasy watchable.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
The film as a whole, while possessing a kind of vicious beauty, feels as cold and as embalmed as a corpse.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Despite its high craft level and Washington's participation in it, this movie's showy violence is finally as deadening as the over-emphatic violence in these kinds of films generally is.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
It is a good hour too long, although it does boast Christopher Walken.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
This movie is a predictable, gruesome piece of business.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
This is a time-tested movie con, but rarely has it been deployed so contemptibly.Read Full Review »
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