Continuity mistake: When Creasy is in the car with Jorge Gonzales, Gonzales' can be seen with his sunglasses on when they were not on immediately prior.
Man on Fire (2004)
Plot summary
Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Mickey Rourke, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell, Marc Anthony
John W. Creasy (Denzel Washington) is a burned-out ex-CIA assassin, who is continously haunted by the sins that he has committed. His best friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) gets him a job as a bodyguard for industrialist Samuel Ramos' (Marc Anthony) young daughter Pita (Dakota Fanning) and his wife Lisa (Radha Mitchell). At first Creasy sees Pita as only a job showing no interest in her whatsoever (except protecting her). But pretty soon he begins to show affection for her as she changes the cold and heartless man in Creasy, and gives him a new purpose in life. But the happiness is broken when Pita is kidnapped. This tragic event changes Creasy back to his old behaviour and he becomes determined to rescue her and kill everyone involved in the kidnapping.
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Creasy: Okay, my friend. It's off to the next life for you. I guarantee you, you won't be lonely.
Trivia: In the original ending Creasy is taken to "The Voice" for search and interrogation. After some interesting dialogue, a watch among Creasy's personal effects begins to beep and there is a huge explosion. Sharp eyed viewers will remember this ending was set up during the suppository bomb scene under the bridge where Creasy showed an unused charger, pager, watch, and detonator to the victim. The producers thought that this alternate ending screened as too improbable and closed the plot too neatly.
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Answer: Creasy was a contract assassin for the CIA. His downfall was his drinking because it affected his reaction time and so forth. He had a lot of bad memories he was trying to live with. He considered this bodyguard assignment to be a blow off assignment. This and his bad memories combined with his drinking problem, made him severely depressed. This is why he considered killing himself. At the end of the movie, you see Creasy being taken away in a car. His gunshot wound from the "Voice's" brother, along with his prior gunshot wounds that were never properly treated, had finally gotten the best of him. He was bleeding the whole last half of the movie because he never fully recovered from the gunshot wounds. So, to answer the question of why he died, he bled to death.