If there's a familiarity to the film's wired mise-en-scène, use of both Denzel and a cute Fanning girl (here, a cameoing Elle), and a climactic act of redemptive martyrdom, don't worry—it's not an instance of the titular phenomenon but, rather, the more mundane result of Scott merely replicating Man on Fire.
Nick Schager
November 19, 2006