The Movie takes place in Mexico City, it starts off with a rich man having to pay for his son's ransom, and that is what the whole movie is about, it is about money and kidnapping. A Body Guard is hired and is being payed very low because of his alcohol problem. He is hired to escort a daughter named Pita by a Wealthy man. His wife took a liking to the Body Guard immediately all because he was an American. The Body Guard had many related skills relating to being a Body Guard, however he had never protected children before. At first the Body Guard does not want to develop a friendship with the little girl but later on he does anyway. The Pita (the little girl/daughter of the rich guy) informs the Body Guard that there has been 24 kidnappings in the last six days, four each day. He is some how psychologically damaged from his past, he dislikes his job so much, he tries to fit in God into his life and wonders if God would ever forgive him (because of his psychological damage I can see why he has a drinking problem). Later on both the Boday Guard and Pita take notice of a car behind them, they both write down the license plate number. Pita is at her piano classes, the Boday Guard is waiting outside, a dog is let loose the Body Guard puts it back in the car from where it came from and all of a sudden he sees the familiar car pull up where Pita was coming out tries to kidnap her but the Body Guard pulls out his gun unfortunately cops get in the way, Boday Guard shoots and kills two, kidnappers kidnapped Pita. Turns out the cops were not on duty and yet still had their uniform on and exactly at the scene of the crime so they were crooked cops. A ransom was offered but no successful, later on turns out the head of the dapartment of anti-kidnapping stole half of the ransom money which was 5 million in total 10 million, but the head stole 5 million of paper not money, the other million went to the Pita's father's lawyer and the kidnappers and in a way he got some money back to help him out of debt but everything was placed on hold because the other half was fake. Of course the Body Guard discovered all of this by going back to the scene of the crimes going around asking questions to witnessess or suspects like a detective. He builds an alliance with a newsreporter named Maria and his old partner during his lasts jobs. The Father committed suicide and he made a deal with the kidnappers, "A life for a life." In exchanged the main Kidnapper's brother and the BodyGuard for Pita, Pita returned safely. Can you actually imagine going through all of that? Of course the movie is a bit exagerated, you just wouldn't be blowing off anyone's head off out of anger. Kidnapping happens every where in this world at any time and any place but rich people are the ultimate targets all because of the economic issues that a person faces that or because of greed.
Project 2 Movie: Man on Fire
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