don not get me wrong and i love action and revenge flick and i have see many of them since i be a kid and include dolph lundgren late the mechanik which be quite good . and tony scott certainly know how to use a camera and even might be a genius shooting and edit film . but with man on fire ( and even more then with domino ) and scott show that rather than use his film make genius skill intelligently and he use it puposelessly to show off and compensate a lack of substance that his material doesn not offer him . man of fire be close to 2 hour and half when it really should have be at least an hour less . the way scott shot and edit this film also make you wonder if he really want you ( the audience ) to sit through his film because his constant camera move and flash really be a torture for the eye and make you wan na leave the theater or turn it off after 5 minute into it . at time where the mpaa and studio have questionable attitude regard rating and violence and make pg 13 movie and i find also suspicious that a $ 70 million movie be make of a b movie script with a character who cut finger and put a bomb in a man as and blow a guy hand with a shotgun and all this to avenge the death of a little girl who isnt even dead . go figure then why a studio will pass a good script because of the language or violence . thus say .