Ronin (1998)
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.
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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User Ratings: 110,306
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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
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Cast
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Robert De Niro
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Jean Reno
Vincent -
Natascha McElhone
Deirdre -
Stellan Skarsgård
Gregor -
Sean Bean
Spence -
Skipp Sudduth
Larry -
Michel Lonsdale
Jean-Pierre -
Jan Triska
Dapper Gent -
Jonathan Pryce
Seamus -
Feodor Atkine
Mikhi -
Katarina Witt
Natacha Kirilova -
Bernard Bloch
Sergi -
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All Critics (84) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (20) | DVD (30)
Ronin plays like death warmed over!
Ronin reps a pleasurable throwback to the sort of gritty, low-tech international thriller that was a staple of the 1960s.
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.
More fruitful by far to take the auteurist view and say that for Frankenheimer, Ronin is surrender.
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.
...smart enough to recognize and even make a virtue of its dumbness.
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
Nothing was resolved in the end except for the fact that I hated it.
Audience Reviews for Ronin
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- Gregor: It would be nice to do something.
- Sam: We are doing something. We're sitting here, waiting.
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- Sam: What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?
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- Sam: Tell me about an ambush. I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!
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- Vincent: What would I profit from your death?
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- Sam: I don't remember. That's lesson number two.
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