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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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 110,306
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
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Robert De Niro
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Jean Reno
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Natascha McElhone
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Stellan Skarsgård
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Sean Bean
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Skipp Sudduth
Larry -
Michel Lonsdale
Jean-Pierre -
Jan Triska
Dapper Gent -
Jonathan Pryce
Seamus -
Feodor Atkine
Mikhi -
Katarina Witt
Natacha Kirilova -
Bernard Bloch
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All Critics (84) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (19) | DVD (30)
Ronin plays like death warmed over!
Top CriticRonin 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.
Depicts the amoral world of masterless warriors whose lives are filled with unending violence and betrayal.
What carries the film is the style, which is fast, furious, and impeccably paced.
It is a tribute to the film's earnestness that we are able to overlook most of its absurdities and simply revel in its deeds.
The stunts make a considerably more vivid impression than any of the movie's potpourri of characters.
Frankenheimer rams the plot through turnstiles of gibberish!
All the players are good, so what happened? They forgot that we, the audience, could think.
A somewhat muddled yarn that's more tease than delivery.
But despite some attempts to make this a deeper than usual actioner, Frankenheimer's film is just your typical actioner.
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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