In the 2004 film, John Creasy (Denzel Washington) is an alcoholic ex-United States Special Operations soldier travelling to Mexico to visit his friend Rayburn. He subsequently lands a job on the advice of Rayburn as a bodyguard for an affluent Mexican automaker named Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony) guarding his Mexican-American daughter Lupita "Pita" Ramos (Dakota Fanning). Just like the Creasy in the novel, he is cold and distant from Pita but quickly warms up to her. She is eventually kidnapped by Mexican policemen belonging to a criminal organisation called "La Hermandad" who are involved in much of the kidnapping conspiracy transpiring in Mexico. Believing Pita to be dead as the result of a botched ransom drop, Creasy exacts revenge on everyone involved with surgical precision. Eventually he discovers that Pita was in fact kept alive and agrees to exchange himself for her so she can be returned to her mother Lisa (Radha Mitchell). Creasy goes through with the exchange, but is suffering from prior gunshot wounds and dies shortly after giving himself over to enemy hands, but not before ensuring Pita's safe return to her mother.