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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Easily the best of the recent spate of cynical and violent revenge/vigilante dramas. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Man on Fire awakens a genuine sense of bloodlust in the viewer. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Overlong, off-putting and at times sadistic. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Starts off as a good example of super-glitz moviemaking, gradually turns into a movie on fire -- another helter-skelter, big-studio spending spree. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I'm recommending Man on Fire for that bold style, its unapologetic comic book story arc, and the great performances from Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken and young Dakota Fanning. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Think of it: Walken and Rourke in the same movie. That alone is worth the price of a ticket. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Ponderous and bloated. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: 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 more
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Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The movie appeals to baser instincts, and Scott's heavy-handed button-pushing stacks the deck. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: A highly watchable action thriller with one big flaw: It feels like two different movies aimed at two different audiences. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Punch drunk with sadism and sentimentality. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A coldly violent revenge drama that tarts up scenes of wanton sadism with lush art direction, and a spiritual story that invokes serious struggle and prayer for atmosphere rather than content. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: If your idea of a bargain is two bad movies for the price of one, then shell out for Man on Fire. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: At 142 minutes, Man on Fire is too long, but watching the mystery unravel is still jolly good fun. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: A movie of two unreconcilable halves. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: 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. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A depressingly gory parade of vengeance. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The first (nonreligious) sure thing to hit the multiplex this year. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Suffice it to say nothing about this pumped-up, hyperthyroidal Tony Scott revenge flick makes sense, but it takes two hours to kill off as many people and demolish as many vehicles as Charles Bronson used to do in 30 minutes. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: [Scott's] fondness for intrusive, fake-stylish camera tricks -- jump cuts, speeded-up montages, abrupt changes in light, color saturation and focal depth -- has overwhelmed whatever story sense he once possessed. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: You'd have to call Man on Fire a mess, but at least it's an interesting mess. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Tony Scott's Man on Fire employs superb craftsmanship and a powerful Denzel Washington performance in an attempt to elevate genre material above its natural level, but it fails. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: This movie isn't just about a kidnapping; it is a kidnapping, and we're the hostages. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is garbage, but it's entertaining garbage. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson made the vigilante the true urban cowboy. But I think even they would blanch at the hero of Man on Fire. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: [Washington] plays a cliched character in a by-the-numbers plot, but manages to make both acceptable on the sheer power of his screen presence. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Long and torturous. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Seventeen years from now, we may well remember this version of the story -- just as one remembers getting hammered on the head repeatedly with a 2-by-4. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: One of the more absorbing and palatable entries in the rather disreputable Death Wish-style self-appointed vigilante sub-genre. Read more
David Ng, Village Voice: 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 more