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Ronin (UMD, 2006) (German\French)

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About this product

David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal only to themselves. A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in Paris. Sam, an American, may be ex-CIA. Vincent, the terminally cool Frenchman, is a mystery. Russian computer whiz Gregor is presumably ex-KGB, and Spence, a British demolitions man, and Larry, another Yank, round out the team. They've been hired by the IRA, through liaison Deirdre, to steal a briefcase of unknown contents somewhere in Europe. As the unit races from one spectacular location on the French Riviera to another, the Tec-9 reigns, the body count mounts, some Russian gangsters get into the act, and the betrayals come fast and furious. In a rare comic moment, Sam stitches up his own bullet wound, an act of tongue-in-cheek Hemingwayism, and asks a friend to finish before he passes out. 'Ronin' features an exceptional cast, sumptuous locations, and the kind of realistic, high-coefficient-of-adversity car chases and action scenes that one expects from a director of John Frankenheimer's skills.

Actor
Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Jonathan Pryce, Natascha Mcelhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Sean Bean, Katarina Witt
Director
John Frankenheimer
Release Year
2006
Genre
General, Action/Adventure

Number of Discs
1
Format
UMD
Language
English
Director of Photography
Robert Fraisse
Costume Designer
May Routh
Production Designer
Michael Z. Hanan
Reviews
Entertainment Weekly - "...Bracing sequences....A welcome throwback....[De Niro] makes most recent action-movie figures look like callow jocks..." -- Rating: B+, New York Times - ...An extraordinary cast of actors, all on the same formidable wavelength, match wits most impressively....Mr. De Niro shows off a brooding, hard-guy panache with its own brand of international appeal..., USA Today - ...This throwback to director John Frankenheimer's vintage international thrillers has an attractively old-fashioned feel..., Rolling Stone - ...RONIN represents an exhilarating return to form for Frankenheimer....The real deal in action fireworks...
Certificate
15
Subtitle Language
Arabic\Dutch\English\French\German\Hindi\Turkish
Dubbing Languages
German\French
Features
Widescreen, With Subtitles
Movie/TV Title
Ronin
Composer
Elia Cmiral
Sound source
Dolby Digital Stereo
Aspect Ratio
1.78 Wide Screen
Screenwriter
David Mamet, J.D. Zeik
Format Description
UMD
Run Time
120 mins
Editor
Antony Gibbs