| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Robert De Niro |
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| Jean Reno |
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| Natascha McElhone |
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| Jonathan Pryce |
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| Stellan Skarsgard |
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| Sean Bean |
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| Katarina Witt |
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| Movie Details |
| Director |
John Frankenheimer |
| Studio |
MGM HOME ENT. (EUROPE) LTD. |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
15 |
| Running Time |
120 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| Robert De Niro stars as an American intelligence operative adrift in irrelevance since the end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, aka "ronin". With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors with nothing but time on their hands. Their mission, as defined by the woman who hires them (Natascha McElhone), is to get hold of a particular suitcase that is equally coveted by the Russian mafia and Irish terrorists. As the scheme gets underway, De Niro's lone wolf strikes up a rare friendship with his French counterpart (Jean Reno), gets into a more-or-less romantic frame of mind with McElhone and asserts his experience on the planning and execution of the job--going so far as to publicly humiliate one team member (Sean Bean) who is clearly out of his league. The story is largely unremarkable--there's an obligatory twist midway through that changes the nature of the team's business--but legendary filmmaker John Frankenheimer (Seconds, The Manchurian Candidate) leaps at the material, bringing to it an honest tension and seasoned, breathtaking skill with precision-action direction. The centrepiece of the movie is an honest-to-God car chase that is the real thing: not the how-can-we-top-the-last-stunt cartoon nonsense of Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon) but a pulse-quickening, kinetic dance of superb montage and timing. In a sense, Ronin is almost Frankenheimer's self-quoting version of a John Frankenheimer film.There isn't anything here he hasn't done before but it's sure great to see it all again. --Tom Keogh |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
308 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Links |
IMDB
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 2 |
| Screen Ratio |
16:9 Wide Screen / 2.35 Wide Screen |
| Release Date |
2000 |
| Subtitles |
English; English for the hearing impaired |
| Audio Tracks |
English |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| PAL Widescreen |
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