Man On Fire (tbc)

This movie doesn't deserve Denzel Washington. Lethal and twisted, he gives Tony Scott's fuzzy, Traffic-styled revenge thriller far more heft than it ever earns.

Washington is Creasy, a burned-out former anti-terrorist agent hired to bodyguard a rich man's daughter (Dakota Fanning) in Mexico City. Striking up a father-daughter relationship with the little girl, he goes off the rails when she gets kidnapped. Yes, it's The Bodyguard with a higher body count. We're used to Christopher Walken scene-stealing his way through overfamiliar tosh like this, but Denzel has usually got more sense.

DVD Extras:

If you splash the cash for the Special Edition, it has a lot to offer: trailers, a music video, deleted scenes, a Scott commentary and a huge Making Of documentary. The last two keep banging on about how scarily serious Mexico's kidnapping problem is (one every 60 minutes), but that just leaves you wondering how the director bungled such promising raw material.

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