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Man on Fire will test moviegoers' lust for righteous revenge. It has certainly tested the critics'. On the one hand, there's Eleanor Ringel Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who writes that the movie "aspires to be something more than a straight-up ransom/revenge flick. It also wants to say a few things about faith, friendship and redemption. And for the most part it succeeds." Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News calls it "the first (nonreligious) sure thing to hit the multiplex this year." On the other hand, Jan Stuart in Newsday observes: "There will be worse movies before the year is out. There will most certainly be longer ones. But it's hard to imagine a picture more in need of sedation than Man on Fire, two hours and 20 minutes of the most out-of-control filmmaking you've seen since your Jack Russell terrier grabbed the Handicam off the coffee table, mistaking it for a tug toy." Michael Sragow in the Baltimore Sun calls it "incendiary trash." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times writes that the movie "plays as if [director Tony] Scott knows the plot is threadbare, and wants to patch it with an excess of style." And Rick Groen in the Toronto Globe and Mail advises: "If your idea of a bargain is two bad movies for the price of one, then shell out for Man on Fire. And don't fret about that incendiary title because this thing is all fuse." |
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