Netflix Man on Fire
Created by Kyle Killen · 2026 ·
Man on Fire (2026) earns a 66% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended overall. Created by Kyle Killen; streaming on Netflix.
Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, IMDb, fan). See how we calculate scores.
Averaged from 5 sources
Is Man on Fire worth watching?
Yes — Man on Fire earns a 66% Celluloid Score. Recommended, created by Kyle Killen and streaming on Netflix.
Critics Consensus
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II smolders convincingly, but this stretched-thin adaptation only intermittently justifies trading the films' scorched intensity for seven episodes of simmer.
Celluloid Critics Consensus
What is Man on Fire about?
John Creasy, a burned-out ex-Special Forces mercenary drinking his way toward oblivion, accepts what looks like a quiet protection job from his old friend Paul Rayburn. Then bombers level a skyscraper, Rayburn's daughter Poe becomes the attack's key witness, and Creasy's promise to keep one girl alive collides with a conspiracy prepared to burn a city. Kyle Killen stretches A.J. Quinnell's novels — twice filmed, most famously with Denzel Washington — into seven episodes of slow-burn vengeance.
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