I hadn’t read up on the cuts made so I was expecting Pita to be returned. So I was disappointed that she wasn’t. It was a great, unexpected, twist in the original that she was actually alive and it left me feeling really good.
I like that he didn’t just die in the car ride so it is a better finale but still, it would have been better, for me at least, to have kept Pita alive. Sometimes, cuts that make sense logically don’t agree with the what the heart wants.

I highly recommend this to anybody who enjoys a good old fashioned, action packed revenge movie, without a doubt.
I really did enjoyed to ride!

9/10

technical quality is perfect and the perspective change (as well as some HEFTY story element changes) make this visually impaired (schizo) flick a payback-esque thriller (of course you have to take out the asshole and put in the “denzel” protaganist ).

everything is a 5/5. if there was a special 6/5 button i’d be using that. but i can’t. so it’s a 5.

Thanks again

by ABUAMAR (on piratebay.org): well a few things. first, would someone please seed this thing with my thanks in advance for your seed time. 2nd, your perception of the movie was way darker than mine. i thought killing all those guys was good, as creasy says, “forgiveness is the lords business – my job is to arrange the meeting” remember at this time he still thought peta had been killed. also, if he had read the original 1980 book from which the screenplay was written he would have assumed she was dead because she dies in the book – while he lives. but you are right it would be impolitic for hollywood to kill dakota fanning.

also, since no one knew about the money but creasy, peta’s mom, and the female reporter, i figured it would remain undiscovered. especially since no one is gonna want to hear about all the corruption of the fuentes “los hermandan” crew. and peta’s father comitted suicide, but somehow it seems there will be no shortage of eligible men lining up to be petas’ stepfather. soooo, anyway, i am looking forward to watching your version, (although for the life of me i am not sure how you can delete the kidnap scene) if someone will seed it and i can get the last 16% of the file. btw, thanks for all your work and the things you do. it is folks like you that help to make the torrent world really interesting. thanks for everything.

by Peter von Frosta: I must say that I was pretty impressed with the EDIT. After I was a little preoccupied after I watched deZIONized, because I just knew it was different and I thought about “oh this has changed and this and that” all the time, I watched CREASY before Man on Fire. To be hones, I didn’t watch Man on Fire till today, I guess it’ll become another dust-catcher on my shelf then (I do own the original, just to be clear on that!).
I never felt that there was something missing. But, a few times during the movie, that something about this felt familiar. You used a few music cues from “The Island”, didn’t you? I just love this soundtrack (by the way, there is a copy of the soundtrack enclosed in the german steelbook of “Die Insel”, highly recommended, I just love the music!).

The only thing I noticed, that was a little bit strange, were actually two things.
On thing is, you created a little continuity error. When Peta is in the swimming tournament, the nun says to Creasy, that today he would be her father (because Peta’s parents were out of town). This was a little awkward, because her parents gave Peta the dog just a few moments ago. You should have moved the scene after the contest, so that it would seem that they bought the dog as a present for winning the contest.
The other thing was the title sequence. But it was not really your mistake. I just didn’t think at that moment, that Ridley would use some of the music-video techniques, we are introduced to later. Now I think it really fits the movie, but when I watched it, I wasn’t prepared for that.

A really nice touch were the additional subtitles you did. They complimented the already existing onscreen textcrawls (don’t know how to describe this, I never encountered this before).

Of course you could tell, that the ending was edited. You used music from “The Island” (which fit very well into the movie btw), and the video quality shifted, because you used the alternate ending.
I just have one question about your ending:
How did you get the idea, of putting the conversation about Creasy’s children at the end of the movie? I thought this was a perfect afterthought, were did the conversation originally took place?

I also watched the original ending, because I was a little but curious. Man, that was a letdown. The girl survived? What did Tony think when he did it? He shouldn’t do less cocaine.
And also, the original ending was kind of boring. After the more fast paced manhunt scenes, this was just so slow and didn’t fit the rythm of the movie. Also Creasy just dies, in the car. I mean we are introduced to the “mastermind” of the movie and then Creasy doesn’t kill the sucker? Booh!

Creasy really shows how a movie can be changed through editing. Good work!