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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, a.k.a. "ronin." With his services for sale, he joins a r...( read more  )enegade, 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 centerpiece 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

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  Holy shit doesn't even begin to describe the car chases in this movie. I still thought it was stupid that i never found out what was in the case

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  April 27, 2008

  Ronin is unemployed samurai that hired as a protector n bodyguard .. they did not belong to any clan .. match with the story .. n the chase scene is really cool as u drive on Audi A-4 at its best time ..

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  April 21, 2008

  Kind overrated to me but I still dug it. I was expecting Sean Bean to come back near the end so it kinda sucked that he's only in it in the beginning. Still, you got Robert De Niro and Jean Reno kicking ass so that made up for it. Also cool to see Natascha McElhone and with an Irish accent, no less. I like her better without it but damn, every time she said "case", I thought she said "kiss" and that just made her unbelievably sexy. Jonathan Pryce, on the other hand, couldn't really put it off. I didn't buy his accent at all. Oh and Stellan Skarsgaard is a creepy motherfucker. Every time there was a close-up of his face, I felt paranoid. Still, there was an awesome car chase, a few short but good shootouts but nothing too spectacular. Decent flick, though.

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  April 14, 2008

  Ronin ticks every box that a true action film should, explosions, car chases, gunfire, over the top action. Robert De Niro in one of his finer films in the last decade fitsthe role perfectly and is abley assisted by Jean Renoi, Natascha McElhone and Stellen Skarsgaard among others. The story is strong and quite well conceived, this offers all you can need from an action flick.

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  April 11, 2008

  De Niro was awesome. A very smart man. Reno fun as always. Some great chase scenes. UGH what was in the fucking case?!

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  one of a great movies i ever seen, every scenario of the film make you recall of the events happen in every corner of the world in the news as to how they plan to assassinate individuals/ and the need to have money in any ways.

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  Jean Reno
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  Jonathan Pryce
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  Natascha McElhone
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  Robert De Niro
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  Sean Bean
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  Stellan Skarsg?rd

• Rated: (R)
• Directed by: John Frankenheimer
• Genres: Action & Adventure
• Released: September 25, 1998
• DVD Released: May 15, 2001

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