Ronin

Maud 2021-10-22 14:35:22

Pursuit and betrayal may be the eternal theme of action movies, the only difference is probably only the change of time and place. The film cost 20 million U.S. dollars and was performed by actors from many countries. It tells the story of the Irishman Daddell (Netascha McEhorn) being hired to lead a team of former CIA officials Sam (Robert De Niro) and former European Intelligence Agency official Vincent (Jean Reynolds) ), German electronics expert Grogo (Stellan Skarsgard), driver Larry (Scape Sandus), British weapons expert Spence (Sean Bean), etc. A group of people is about to take back a mysterious briefcase from the hands of international criminals. But no one has ever told them the name of their employers and their goals and true identities. With a gunshot on the banks of the Seine, the film entered the southern part of France, and the team went to Cannes for a mission. Then the fierce chase scene puts every audience in the film. The next development of the story is the inevitable betrayal and endless thrilling pursuit.
Just because De Niro and Jean Renault are the protagonists, this film is worth watching. The story is about a group of special agents who are entrusted by a mysterious woman to steal a suitcase. What is shocking is that this is actually a trap set up by NATO and Warsaw Pact intelligence agencies to jointly get rid of these "dangerous elements." This is a thriller with the theme of doubt, distrust and betrayal. Two scenes of car chases are frightening.

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Extended Reading
  • Jacques 2022-04-21 09:01:30

    There are many good actors, and a spy war movie with a post-Cold War mentality. I haven't seen such an old-fashioned, restrained, and ruthless action movie for a long time. Every rival scene is full of tension. Although it is a Hollywood movie, it has the blackness of a Melville movie. Romance, the car chase scene did spend a lot of effort, to say a digression: It is good to show the villain evil all kinds of black and black spy war movies regardless of the death of civilians and political correctness.

  • Annetta 2021-10-26 03:31:12

    A very concise and sophisticated action movie, without a superfluous shot. Although it is produced by Hollywood, it has a clear French romance. It's just that the blood bag after being shot was too fake... The sentence Robert De Niro said after pulling out the bullet: "If you don't mind, I'm going to faint" really... I fell to the dregs~~

Ronin quotes

  • Jean-Pierre: [in his modeling workshop] My hobby. One grows old.

    Sam: I knew a lot of fellas, friends of mine, that just wanted to live to open a bar.

    Jean-Pierre: Had they lived, would they have done it?

    [Sam shrugs]

    Jean-Pierre: Then they were spared their disillusion.

  • Sam: The only thing is that the map, the map is not the territory.