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Ronin

Ronin (1998)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 19

This is comparable to French Connection with great action, dynamic road chase scenes, and solid performances.

57

Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 6

This is comparable to French Connection with great action, dynamic road chase scenes, and solid performances.

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 110,306

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Movie Info

John Frankenheimer directed this $20 million international action thriller from a screenplay by Richard Weisz (pseudonym for David Mamet) and J.D. Zeik. In Paris, Irish organizer Deidre (Natascha McElhone) assembles a team to grab a mysterious briefcase from criminals. They are never told who hired them or the true identity of their targets. The hired specialists: Former CIA officer Sam (Robert De Niro), former Euro intelligence agent Vincent (Jean Reno), German electronics expert Gregor

Feb 23, 1999

MGM/UA

All Critics (84) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (20) | DVD (30)

Ronin plays like death warmed over!

January 1, 2000 Comment (1)
Boston Globe
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Ronin reps a pleasurable throwback to the sort of gritty, low-tech international thriller that was a staple of the 1960s.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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I enjoyed the film on two levels: for its skill and its silliness.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Mamet was so upset by the Writers Guild's refusal to give him sole writing credit that he chose to be listed under a pseudonym; turns out he unwittingly made the right decision.

April 3, 2009 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

More fruitful by far to take the auteurist view and say that for Frankenheimer, Ronin is surrender.

March 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | Comment
Film Freak Central

As relações entre os personagens e as seqüências de perseguição são fascinantes, mas a tentativa de "amarrar" a trama acaba comprometendo um roteiro que não precisava disso.

March 12, 2005 Comment
Cinema em Cena

...smart enough to recognize and even make a virtue of its dumbness.

January 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Frankenheimer goes out, well, if not exactly on top, at least on a high note with this slightly insubstantial but stylistically sophisticated song in a minor key

March 11, 2004 Full Review Source: Cinemania | Comment

Nothing was resolved in the end except for the fact that I hated it.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Supercala.com | Comments (3)
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Audience Reviews for Ronin

A fun B-movie with one of the best car scene chases ever. Plot is lacking... but Robert De Niro is in it... He lifts this movie up. I loved the overall feel of this movie

September 25, 2010
Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

An entertaining, though extremely convoluted and occasionally way too silly action yarn detailing a team of mercenaries (led by Robert De Niro) who must recover a briefcase filled with contents they no nothing about. The plot, as said, is way to complicated to keep up with, and the character development is pretty bad

October 21, 2007
Dan Schultz

Super Reviewer

    1. Vincent: What would I profit from your death?
    – Submitted by Musa I (2 months ago)
    1. Sam: I don't remember. That's lesson number two.
    – Submitted by James B (2 months ago)

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