Great Film

[vholness]

Please, does anyone know the name of this film? Its about a family living in Italy, the Dad is famous for reasons i can't remember. Lots of children are going missing so they hire a black security guard to protect their daughter (she's blond, blue eyed). The guard come across mean and unemotional but through spending time with the girl learns to love again. He takes her to school, even helps improve her swimming and attends a swimming event where she wins. But one day he takes her to a piano lesson and whilst his back is turned for a plit second he gets shot and the girl gets kidnapped. He wakes up in a hospital, discharges himself and makes his prioroty tracking down the girl. He kills the bent cops involved, blows up someone in a car, frees another missing child from a nightclub and then blows the place up. Eventually tracing the kidnapper with the help of a female cop/reporter, he proceeds over to the house and holds his children hostage as payback. He has a moment on one of his first evenings with the family where he gets drunk, puts a bullet in his gun and pulls the trigger but nothing happens, towards the end of the film he gives the same gun to the girl's father cos it turns out he was involved with the kidnapping and he pulls the trigger, gets shot and then dies. The black guard then saves the girl in exchange for his own life, but in the end he dies in the kidnappers car when they're driving him away from his shot wound.

[OBonio]

Man on Fire?

[vholness]

Thank you so much Obonio - You're an absolute diamond!!!!!

[fourteen85]

I thought it was set in Mexico or Latin America somewhere

[Stu in USA]

Man on Fire is definitely set in Mexico.