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A team of former intelligence agents meet in a disused warehouse in Paris where they begin one of their most deadly missions. An unknown employer tasks them with following a briefcase...

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ProducerFrank Mancuso

EAN5050070022179

eBay Product ID (ePID)44097612

Product Key Features

ActorRobert De Niro, Jean Reno, Jonathan Pryce, Natascha Mcelhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Sean Bean, Katarina Witt

Film/TV TitleRonin

DirectorJohn Frankenheimer

Release Year2004

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesSpecial Edition

GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure

Run Time120 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

ComposerElia Cmiral

Production DesignerMichael Z. Hanan

Additional InformationDavid 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 (Robert De Niro), an American, may be ex-CIA. Vincent (Jean Reno), the terminally cool Frenchman, is a mystery. Russian computer whiz Gregor (Stellan Skarsgaard) is presumably ex-KGB, and Spence (Sean Bean), a British demolitions man, and Larry (Skipp Suddith), another Yank, round out the team. They've been hired by the IRA, through liaison Deirdre (Natascha McElhone), 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.

ReviewsEntertainment 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...

ScreenwriterDavid Mamet, J.D. Zeik

Costume DesignerMay Routh

EditorAntony Gibbs

Movie/TV TitleRonin

Director of PhotographyRobert Fraisse