Oscar Award winning Denzel Washington is one of my favorite actors. The way he is able to take any role and shape it into something special is simply phenomenal. Thanks to him he lifts what would otherwise just have been yet another kidnapping-and-ransom-goes-wrong movie above the mere mediocre.
The story is nothing new and we have seen it all before. (Think of Ransom with Mel Gibson in 1996 and the more recent Taken franchise with Liam Neeson to name but two.) In this 2004 movie Washington is John Greasy, a down and out ex-special ops soldier, that gets hired as bodyguard for the daughter (excellently played by Dakota Fanning, as usual) of a wealthy Mexican business man. A special bond develops between Greasy and the girl so that, when she actually does get kidnapped on his watch, he turns into a one man army that swears revenge against all those involved, regardless of who they are...
Like I said, nothing new but Denzel sure makes it worth watching. At some point it starts to get a bit gory but despite that I still rate it three out of five stars.
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