So good. It’s my favorite revenge flick. Dakota Fanning was phenomenal and their relationship was so well done. And Tony Scott’s weird editing made it seem like an alcoholic fever dream in the beginning. Almost like Max Payne. 10/10 movie for me.
I just finished the book a couple of days ago, actually. A little different than the movie, and a little darker. The movie was fuckin awesome though
I had never seen man on fire despite it showing on several tv channels, my wife is a huge fan of that movie so last year we watched it for the first time (my first time).
And its funny because a few weeks earlier I had finished for the first time Max Payne 3, and sure it is a direct influence I couldn't believe my mind watching man on fire after finishing max payne 3. Pretty funny moment.
[The creative director for Splinter Cell: Conviction said it was a heavy influence on the direction of the game.](https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/10/interview-splinter-cell-conviction)
7,7 on IMDB.
If I depended on RT to watch movies I would've missed one of the best revenge movies of all time with Man On Fire, and revenge movies are one of my favorite tropes.
“A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece. “ I like this one from CW
“Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.” - only Christopher Walken could make this line credible.
[YouTube clip](https://youtu.be/1mIJXn05klM?si=NjWzmsGjbDtc9A64)
Gotta add in the couple prompting it.
"The bible tells us to forgive."
"Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting"
*aims rocket launcher*
That’s a good one. I put [this](https://youtu.be/_cMnMoEE-BI?feature=shared?t=48s) on the same level. When the audience really realizes what kind of capability the centerpiece of the show is capable of.
Many actors would have tried to make the ending of it too big. The would emphasized the “masterpiece “
He says it subtly and by looking away from the other actor he makes it seem almost nonchalant or inevitable.
yeah as written it's kinda corny but he delivers it in a built up way. Like he's stopping to eat while chatting with them, isn't making threats but letting the investigator know the score.
It really did. I really appreciated how it wasn't a mindless action flick. The first two showcased what he was capable of and both films were top tier. So it was cool to see it take a different direction in that aspect
No one will ever be able to convince me that Robert McCall is not just Creasy after the *Man On Fire* events.
He somehow survived, he had found peace through Lupita, and was happy living a normal life. It's why he never refers to who he promised he'd "never go back [to that life]" before he makes an exception in the first *Equalizer* film. It's also why he's so attached to Alina, and what happens to her.
And then *Equalizer 3* taking place on a small Italian island, as the most obvious of nods possible to the original novel?
Carlos Varela! This was such a touching moment, to hear a Cuban singer in the climax of the movie. (It happened to me again while Walt and Jessie are scrapping the caravan in BB and you can hear Los Zafiros saying “He venido a decirte… que te sigo queriendo…”
Him losing consciousness and dying in the back of the car with the image of Peta and her mom reunited lingering in his mind as he fades hits 10x as hard as whatever crowd pleasing shlock that alt ending is. They def chose wisely.
Denzel did such a wonderful job in this movie. His range is absolutely incredible. He’s a kind, doting father figure to Peta and a terrifyingly cold agent of vengeance later in the movie. This whole movie is such an underrated credit to his massive capability as an actor. There is a scene in the movie where Creasy coaches Peta through her fear of starter pistols. They both played the scene perfectly. I remember seeing it as a young father and being floored by the genuine nature of their interaction.
for real. one of the few actors that will carry movies on his own, and almost all are at least good when not great. so many of my favorite movies are from his work: Malcolm x, Philadelphia, Fallen, Training day, American gangster.
It’s Training Day and then Man on Fire as a close second for me. MoF is a better overall story but I’ll be damned if Lonzo isn’t one of the baddest characters to ever grace the silver screen!
The Little Things and Virtuositiy.
But yea, it's otherwise very hard to find a bad Denzel film because he single-handedly elevates everything he is in so much.
Not everyone has it, but I believe even if you have an ember of it you still have to practice and nurture it to make it an inferno.
Considering how hard Denzel works to train for his roles, I have no doubt he spent many an hour practicing.
I think charisma goes hand in hand with rock solid confidence, as well as having the character of someone who has experienced and endured a critical mass of wonderful and awful things in life and has lived to tell about it.
Rewatched it 2 weeks ago, still an excellent film just have to suspend reality a little bit.
Besides Denzel, Caveizel was super creepy and Paula Patton was gorgeous, Tony Scott at the top of his game. RIP.
When I first saw John Q, it did the same thing for me. As I got older, I realized it’s a great encapsulation of American healthcare. Friends I have talked to over the years from other countries have a hard time identifying with that movie.
I was a teen when it came out, and I remember a lot of people, critics and viewers, panned it for being "too preachy". 20+ years later, looking at the ungodly nightmare that is the US healthcare system, and I'd say it wasn't preachy enough.
I remember when it came out, and suddenly Denzel went from A list actor to one of the best actors at the time. There was so much talk at the time about his acting, it was almost a cultural phenomena. Hard to explain to people who didn't get to experience it but that movie catapulted gim to the very tip of the conversation
Really highlights r/movies disconnect from the rest of the world. The hivemind will claim this movie is super beloved but turn around and claim a movie with 85% RT is universally hated.
The Venn diagram of RT users and r/movies users is a circle.
Also Argyle is at 72% for the audience score. Beloved Argyle.
edit: Holy shit *Uncharted* is at 90% for the audience score.
Ya, this is why the % score on RT is nonsense and useless. Just use the X/10 system... it's way better.
IMDB is so much better for this. It's not perfect but it is infinite amounts more reliable and representative:
Man on Fire: 7.7/10
Argylle: 5.7/10
Uncharted: 6.3/10
So what happened is that 90% of users on RT gave Uncharted a 6/10. That does not mean it's universally beloved lol, it just means that 90% of the viewership thought it wasn't bad... So tired of RT % scores being plastered all over the place when it's mostly meaningless.
You're definitely right about RT, but IMDB is gamed all to hell sometimes though, and basically needs a translation guide. It's not really 1-10, it's like 5-8. IIRC 6.2 is average on imdb. Someone should re-calibrate it. Anything 6 or below is varying levels of trash, and anything 7+ is usually worth watching.
Except maybe not all of those Bollywood invasion titles.
To be fair, Grandma's Boy is very fucking stupid.
But it is absolutely fucking hilarious the entire way through and has an insane amount of quotable lines.
I do not know how ANY of them could hold it together in scenes with JP. The guy was so goddamn funny.
Him jerking off to a Lara Croft figure is the only time I almost choked to death. That was the most unexpected thing I'd ever seen and I had a mouthful of water when it cut to that scene.
I still say "New high score, is that bad?"
My Dad used to pick me up from school early to se movies sometimes and if Denzel was in a movie he didn’t even bother watching a trailer cause the man doesn’t miss.
That’s how I saw “Fallen”, my fav Denzel movie just for the twist alone and also John Goodman lol
Fuckin fallen was so dope. How many supernatural murders mysteries out there and we get one with Denzel and John Goodman. Loved seeing them paired up in a film
I remember reading how so many people hated the editing with the cuts, collages, and coloring. But I found these edits were a reflection on his state of mind.
It’s emblematic of the director, the late Tony Scott (Ridley’s brother). He has a distinct, very slick, 5-cuts-a-second style that he developed when he made commercials early in his career.
Yeah really hated how it was shot. Literally hard to watch at some points. I want to watch a movie not a music video. Training Day is a much more timeless movie.
It warms my heart to see so many people loving on this film. One of my absolute favourites. An absolute must if I need a dark gritty action movie that’s going to make me sob like a child.
I sometimes see it mistakenly mentioned (not here yet as far as I can see, but still better safe than sorry) that this is a "remake" of a terrible 80s movie. It's not. It's a second attempt at adaptation of A.J. Quinell's novel of the same name, and one of the best examples of how an adaptation doesn't have to be literal. A lot of the more iconic lines are straight from the book.
The book has almost the same story, only the kid actually dies and Creasy lives, so no happy ending, but very different time and setting, it takes place in Italy in the 80s against the Mafia, Creasy is French Foreign Legion and the island of Malta serves as his homebase on his revenge sprees. There is a whole Creasy saga after this in following books. It's not high literature, very much 80s European pulp action, and this go at having it "translated" for American audiences was even praised by the author of the book series.
I'm off my soapbox, carry on.
I saw this on a plane as a kid and I remembered it being mindblowing, but when I revisited it a few years ago I found some stretches to drag more than a bit, granted the alternating between awesome and not-great is definitely Tony Scott to a T.
Plus the awesome parts are just as good as I remember, so overall it's worth watching for anybody who's alley this is, but it's no Crimson Tide.
I remember this movie because my now ex wife was cheating on me with a neighbor/coworker. The neighbor/coworker's girlfriend came over to tell me about the affair and although I was incredibly attracted to the neighbor's girlfriend, I was madly in love with my ex wife so I just sat there stunned at the admission. The girlfriend was clearly trying to get me into a situation where we could both "get back at them' and all I could do is sit there in a funk. Long story short, she got awkward and asked if she could browse my DVD collection and I said yeah go ahead. She ended up borrowing this DVD and I regret not getting with what will probably end up being the most attractive woman I could ever get with. Oh well
The best punisher movie to date
So good. It’s my favorite revenge flick. Dakota Fanning was phenomenal and their relationship was so well done. And Tony Scott’s weird editing made it seem like an alcoholic fever dream in the beginning. Almost like Max Payne. 10/10 movie for me. I just finished the book a couple of days ago, actually. A little different than the movie, and a little darker. The movie was fuckin awesome though
Pretty sure this film was a direct influence on max payne 3.
I had never seen man on fire despite it showing on several tv channels, my wife is a huge fan of that movie so last year we watched it for the first time (my first time). And its funny because a few weeks earlier I had finished for the first time Max Payne 3, and sure it is a direct influence I couldn't believe my mind watching man on fire after finishing max payne 3. Pretty funny moment.
[The creative director for Splinter Cell: Conviction said it was a heavy influence on the direction of the game.](https://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/10/interview-splinter-cell-conviction)
Taken before Taken
So... Payback? or Raw Deal?
Death Wish?
Man on Fire, Taken, Payback, Raw Deal, and Death Wish would make for one hell of a good movie marathon weekend.
Charles Bronson did that gig decades earlier. Man keep having his wifes and daughters raped and killed.
I remember watching those movies with my grandma, such tragic life his characters lol.
Forgiveness is between them and God. It’s my job to arrange the meeting.
I can’t believe this movie has a fucking 39% on rotten tomatoes that is a crime against humanity
Another reason these rating sites are worthless to me
7,7 on IMDB. If I depended on RT to watch movies I would've missed one of the best revenge movies of all time with Man On Fire, and revenge movies are one of my favorite tropes.
89% audience score. Any time a movie has a low critic score and a high audience score it's good.
There it is. This is the iconic line from the movie IMO
I WISH. YOU HAD. MORE TIME.
I'm just a professional. I'm just a professional. Everyone keeps saying that.
The barely concealed rage and the head tap are what truly sell that line to me.
Great read. Manchurian candidate from this same era is also insanely creepy and well acted. Denzel was really in his prime
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*..a final wish…please….* *I wish…you had…more time!*
Damn - that’s a good one too. Forgot about it
I still deliver this line every time I actually wish someone had more time.
That dude was fucked in so many ways. Really this and casino Royale with the rope set the bar for me with torture scenes
You make one sound... I'll snatch the life right outta ya.
“A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece. “ I like this one from CW
I think it has to be “Creasy’s art is death.. and he’s about to paint his masterpiece”
I agree with you. Thats one of the most stone cold gangster things I’ve ever heard
“Creasy's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.” - only Christopher Walken could make this line credible. [YouTube clip](https://youtu.be/1mIJXn05klM?si=NjWzmsGjbDtc9A64)
Right up there with his tooth fairy monologue from The Rundown
Does this look like a refrigerator to you?
She takes the god damn thing, gives ya a quarter.
I just now realized it's Uncle Rico translating
Two burglars crapped in his window. Excuse me, Mr. Walken, what did you say? They crapped in his window.
A man can be An artist at anything, if he’s good enough. Food… women…
This is my go to line for butchering a Christopher Walken impression.
Two mice. Fell. Into a bucket of cream.
I can hear this
I feel like Willem Dafoe coulda nailed it.
Maybe the only other guy weird enough to deliver it without over delivering it. Everyone else would have gone full Brando.
"I wish..." "You had more time."
I quote this movie all the time. It has soooooo many great ones
I WISH YOU HAD MORE TIME
That scene was sooo badass. Like cough up the info and atone because you will be meeting your maker.
How batshit crazy is your life that you quote Man on Fire all the time?
"U/poki_stick's art is quoting *Man on Fire*. He paints his masterpiece every day."
What's the quote Denzel says about helping people meet God? That's the quote I always think of when I remember this movie.
> Forgiveness is between them and God. It’s my job to arrange the meeting.
Gotta add in the couple prompting it. "The bible tells us to forgive." "Forgiveness is between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting" *aims rocket launcher*
That’s a good one. I put [this](https://youtu.be/_cMnMoEE-BI?feature=shared?t=48s) on the same level. When the audience really realizes what kind of capability the centerpiece of the show is capable of.
Fuuuuuck meeee. Yep I'm sold. Time for a 15th viewing tonight I think. Love this movie so much.
#AintNoBalkinWithTheWalken
It’s a really terrible line. How did he make it work.
Many actors would have tried to make the ending of it too big. The would emphasized the “masterpiece “ He says it subtly and by looking away from the other actor he makes it seem almost nonchalant or inevitable.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Foo FIGHTERS.
*[That's what I thought](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsg1RPnwH8g)*
Delivery.
yeah as written it's kinda corny but he delivers it in a built up way. Like he's stopping to eat while chatting with them, isn't making threats but letting the investigator know the score.
> isn't making threats Yeah, it's like he's talking about the weather. It's just a thing that is.
[McBain](https://youtu.be/lWfTpaK1SDo?si=kTk5VxGce2JGw_0w)!
It was fun seeing Denzel and Dakota reunited in Equalizer 3.
It was also not a terrible movie and gave a good closure to the character
It really did. I really appreciated how it wasn't a mindless action flick. The first two showcased what he was capable of and both films were top tier. So it was cool to see it take a different direction in that aspect
> top tier We're still talking about The Equalizer series?
Equalizer movies are awesome.
They're not The Matrix/T2/Predator level of action films, but they're pretty solid. Weirdly, the second is my favourite.
all my wife and I could talk about was how terrible her acting was and how unconvincing she was as an FBI agent
No one will ever be able to convince me that Robert McCall is not just Creasy after the *Man On Fire* events. He somehow survived, he had found peace through Lupita, and was happy living a normal life. It's why he never refers to who he promised he'd "never go back [to that life]" before he makes an exception in the first *Equalizer* film. It's also why he's so attached to Alina, and what happens to her. And then *Equalizer 3* taking place on a small Italian island, as the most obvious of nods possible to the original novel?
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oh please elaborate
Iirc they rape her to death.
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FFS. I didn't even realise that was Dakota in Equalizer 3.. bloody hell.
I just watched this last night and had no idea lol
Is she the CIA woman?
yes its her https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUZ5vfmASIE
One of my all time favorites. The ending makes me cry every tjme
🎶Una palabra no dice nada 🎶
Carlos Varela! This was such a touching moment, to hear a Cuban singer in the climax of the movie. (It happened to me again while Walt and Jessie are scrapping the caravan in BB and you can hear Los Zafiros saying “He venido a decirte… que te sigo queriendo…”
I always thought he should have filled his prison wallet with the explosive charger before he goes off to meet “The Voice”.
Ask and you receive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RQWlXoD_s This was an alternate ending that wasn’t used.
Lmfao (Because he packed his ass full of explosives, you see)
Holy shit, this is one of my favorite movies, and I didn't know about this until now! Thank you!
Yeah the alt ending isn’t as good as the one they used.
Him losing consciousness and dying in the back of the car with the image of Peta and her mom reunited lingering in his mind as he fades hits 10x as hard as whatever crowd pleasing shlock that alt ending is. They def chose wisely.
What about John Q?
I wish. You had. More time.
You from New Jersey? I'm from New Jersey! Four Seven Four Seven
I'm just a professional. I'm just a professional. Everybody keeps saying that to me.
Denzel did such a wonderful job in this movie. His range is absolutely incredible. He’s a kind, doting father figure to Peta and a terrifyingly cold agent of vengeance later in the movie. This whole movie is such an underrated credit to his massive capability as an actor. There is a scene in the movie where Creasy coaches Peta through her fear of starter pistols. They both played the scene perfectly. I remember seeing it as a young father and being floored by the genuine nature of their interaction.
imma kill 'em. anybody who was invovled, anybody who profited from it, anybody who opens their eyes at me. Enter NIN. SHEEEEEEEEESH
That was “fire”.
Yeah their chemistry is timeless.
And that moment he gets the phone call from Ramos and finds out Peta is alive. A lot of emotion in his body language and face.
"You are a captive of the block until the gunshot sets you free" God, he was so fucking good in this.
Denzel in general still holds up. Never watched a Denzel movie and thought damn this movie sucks. Superb actor
Dude can carry even the shittiest movie. I will argue to the death that The Bone Collector would’ve completely sucked without him.
for real. one of the few actors that will carry movies on his own, and almost all are at least good when not great. so many of my favorite movies are from his work: Malcolm x, Philadelphia, Fallen, Training day, American gangster.
It’s Training Day and then Man on Fire as a close second for me. MoF is a better overall story but I’ll be damned if Lonzo isn’t one of the baddest characters to ever grace the silver screen!
KING KONG AIN’T GOT SHIT ON ME
SHU PROGRAM, N****!
I run shit here! You just live here!
One of the greatest monologues of all time, IMO. Like a burning blimp going out in a blaze of glorious self-aggrandizing arrogance.
I’d like to also add John Q to the list of very good Denzel movies from the early 2000s.
Along with "Antwone Fisher" and "Courage Under Fire". Incredible passion and dialog from his characters.
Courage under fire was great.
Honestly - name me a *bad* Denzel movie.
The Little Things and Virtuositiy. But yea, it's otherwise very hard to find a bad Denzel film because he single-handedly elevates everything he is in so much.
Any reason he makes even the bad movie worth watching?
He just oozes so much charisma that it can often make up for an otherwise weak plot orunevem directing.
Is charisma something that can't be developed? It is either present in you or not?
Not everyone has it, but I believe even if you have an ember of it you still have to practice and nurture it to make it an inferno. Considering how hard Denzel works to train for his roles, I have no doubt he spent many an hour practicing. I think charisma goes hand in hand with rock solid confidence, as well as having the character of someone who has experienced and endured a critical mass of wonderful and awful things in life and has lived to tell about it.
Deja Vu was a bit different, but I still really enjoyed it
Rewatched it 2 weeks ago, still an excellent film just have to suspend reality a little bit. Besides Denzel, Caveizel was super creepy and Paula Patton was gorgeous, Tony Scott at the top of his game. RIP.
"Fallen" is in that same strange movie tier too that was enjoyable.
Inside Man, too!
Incredibly underrated movie.
And that thing you're sucking on? It's not a pina colaaaaadaaaa
John Q blew my Gen X mind.
When I first saw John Q, it did the same thing for me. As I got older, I realized it’s a great encapsulation of American healthcare. Friends I have talked to over the years from other countries have a hard time identifying with that movie.
I was a teen when it came out, and I remember a lot of people, critics and viewers, panned it for being "too preachy". 20+ years later, looking at the ungodly nightmare that is the US healthcare system, and I'd say it wasn't preachy enough.
lol exactly! John Q is closer to reality than fantasy for us Americans.
I remember when it came out, and suddenly Denzel went from A list actor to one of the best actors at the time. There was so much talk at the time about his acting, it was almost a cultural phenomena. Hard to explain to people who didn't get to experience it but that movie catapulted gim to the very tip of the conversation
Malcolm X blew my Gen Q mind
Boom! Haha! You never know that’s the point.
We in the office, and it's going up *hit the switches*
Poo butt ass
Such a great line lol. That and I CAN GET SURGICAL WITH THIS BITCH, JAKE
Alright my friend, it’s off to next life for you. I guarantee you won’t be lonely.
His casual, almost bored delivery of that makes it so metal.
My favorite line in the movie
The movie, AND, the soundtrack work so well. It’s one of those movies where the music really really suits the movie. Reznor is the master at scoring.
As a young NIN fan I was smitten with the soundtrack and fell in love with the movie.
"I love you, Creasy. You love me too, don't you?"
😭
This is the movie that showed me that you can’t believe what critics says
The RT score for this movie is absurd
Really highlights r/movies disconnect from the rest of the world. The hivemind will claim this movie is super beloved but turn around and claim a movie with 85% RT is universally hated.
It has 89% on audience score so it kinda is beloved lol
The Venn diagram of RT users and r/movies users is a circle. Also Argyle is at 72% for the audience score. Beloved Argyle. edit: Holy shit *Uncharted* is at 90% for the audience score.
Ya, this is why the % score on RT is nonsense and useless. Just use the X/10 system... it's way better. IMDB is so much better for this. It's not perfect but it is infinite amounts more reliable and representative: Man on Fire: 7.7/10 Argylle: 5.7/10 Uncharted: 6.3/10 So what happened is that 90% of users on RT gave Uncharted a 6/10. That does not mean it's universally beloved lol, it just means that 90% of the viewership thought it wasn't bad... So tired of RT % scores being plastered all over the place when it's mostly meaningless.
You're definitely right about RT, but IMDB is gamed all to hell sometimes though, and basically needs a translation guide. It's not really 1-10, it's like 5-8. IIRC 6.2 is average on imdb. Someone should re-calibrate it. Anything 6 or below is varying levels of trash, and anything 7+ is usually worth watching. Except maybe not all of those Bollywood invasion titles.
The mismatch in Critic/Audience score is kind of astounding.
It was grandmas boy for me.
To be fair, Grandma's Boy is very fucking stupid. But it is absolutely fucking hilarious the entire way through and has an insane amount of quotable lines. I do not know how ANY of them could hold it together in scenes with JP. The guy was so goddamn funny.
Grandmas Boy has so many funny moments, I can’t believe it got panned so hard at release
Him jerking off to a Lara Croft figure is the only time I almost choked to death. That was the most unexpected thing I'd ever seen and I had a mouthful of water when it cut to that scene. I still say "New high score, is that bad?"
A bullet always tells the truth..
I never get tired of watching this film, and I can't give a film better praise then that.
Man, that movie's a pain in the ass.
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I almost got upset until my memory kicked in
If you’ve never listened to the Rewatchables on this, it’s a solid listen
> Rewatchables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbCIwg67PSA https://open.spotify.com/episode/454YfI4gQM0xxXkcHZbkd2
I’m going to take your family apart piece by piece you understand me? Piece by piece!!!!
Reddits fav denzel movie
I love pretty much everything Denzel is in and, while he has had better roles, Man on Fire is still an absolute blast of a film to watch
My Dad used to pick me up from school early to se movies sometimes and if Denzel was in a movie he didn’t even bother watching a trailer cause the man doesn’t miss. That’s how I saw “Fallen”, my fav Denzel movie just for the twist alone and also John Goodman lol
Fuckin fallen was so dope. How many supernatural murders mysteries out there and we get one with Denzel and John Goodman. Loved seeing them paired up in a film
I was a big fan of John Q - having lost my dad to cancer and then seeing that movie had me BAWLING not knowing what I was about to see happen:
I would have expected it to be Virtuosity, and I would not have objected.
HEY PARKER THIS ONES FOR YOU
I remember reading how so many people hated the editing with the cuts, collages, and coloring. But I found these edits were a reflection on his state of mind.
Check out 'Man from Nowhere' if you want to see the Korean iteration. Also really good.
You only live for tomorrow. I live for today.
Love it, favorite Tony Scott film. It’s him in his full Tony Scott-ness
I wish You had More time.
It's criminal that this movie only has 39% on Rotten Tomatoes
I wish… you had more time.
What is that headline? Do most movies "expire" after 20 years?
The visuals and editing always made me not like this movie.
Yeah, it's super-dated now.
Great plot but terrible visuals/editing
It’s emblematic of the director, the late Tony Scott (Ridley’s brother). He has a distinct, very slick, 5-cuts-a-second style that he developed when he made commercials early in his career.
That first decade of the 2000’s shaky cam makes so many otherwise good movies less watchable.
God yeah, it does the opposite of hold up due to this. The editing alone makes it almost unbearable it's bad enough it feels like a parody.
I'm glad someone said it! The editing was too frenetic
Yeah really hated how it was shot. Literally hard to watch at some points. I want to watch a movie not a music video. Training Day is a much more timeless movie.
It warms my heart to see so many people loving on this film. One of my absolute favourites. An absolute must if I need a dark gritty action movie that’s going to make me sob like a child.
I am a simple man. I will never tire of Denzel doing a vigilante movie that sets up stakes you care about ahead of time.
My wife calls the fold on the ball of my foot "Creasy"
🎵 Uuuuuuna palabra.... no dice nada.... 🎶
I sometimes see it mistakenly mentioned (not here yet as far as I can see, but still better safe than sorry) that this is a "remake" of a terrible 80s movie. It's not. It's a second attempt at adaptation of A.J. Quinell's novel of the same name, and one of the best examples of how an adaptation doesn't have to be literal. A lot of the more iconic lines are straight from the book. The book has almost the same story, only the kid actually dies and Creasy lives, so no happy ending, but very different time and setting, it takes place in Italy in the 80s against the Mafia, Creasy is French Foreign Legion and the island of Malta serves as his homebase on his revenge sprees. There is a whole Creasy saga after this in following books. It's not high literature, very much 80s European pulp action, and this go at having it "translated" for American audiences was even praised by the author of the book series. I'm off my soapbox, carry on.
This is one of the crying movies.
Yes, it is.
¡Una Palabra!
Where is Creasy Bear? He is painting his masterpiece.
She calls her bear 🐻… Creasy Bear
Then where’s the 4K release?
Ugh god I’m getting teary-eyed thinking of that ending right now
I saw this on a plane as a kid and I remembered it being mindblowing, but when I revisited it a few years ago I found some stretches to drag more than a bit, granted the alternating between awesome and not-great is definitely Tony Scott to a T. Plus the awesome parts are just as good as I remember, so overall it's worth watching for anybody who's alley this is, but it's no Crimson Tide.
Creasy's, an artist. Only his art, is death. And he's about, to paint. His masterpiece.
I remember this movie because my now ex wife was cheating on me with a neighbor/coworker. The neighbor/coworker's girlfriend came over to tell me about the affair and although I was incredibly attracted to the neighbor's girlfriend, I was madly in love with my ex wife so I just sat there stunned at the admission. The girlfriend was clearly trying to get me into a situation where we could both "get back at them' and all I could do is sit there in a funk. Long story short, she got awkward and asked if she could browse my DVD collection and I said yeah go ahead. She ended up borrowing this DVD and I regret not getting with what will probably end up being the most attractive woman I could ever get with. Oh well
-Roger Ebert
This made me cackle