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Ronin (1998)

tomatometer

68

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.

audience

76

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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

R,

Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

J.D. Zeik, David Mamet

Feb 23, 1999

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Critic Reviews for Ronin

All Critics (84) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (20) | DVD (30)

Ronin plays like death warmed over!

January 1, 2000 | Comment (1)
Jay Carr
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
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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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
Michael Dequina
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
Walter Chaw
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
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

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

January 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Philip Martin
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
Dan Jardine
Cinemania Source: Cinemania

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

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

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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
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 as well outside of De Niro, but this thing somehow, someway stays entertaining through a variety of breathtaking car chase sequences that match up against the best recorded in film. Sure, the chase sequences, like the movie as a whole, drift into silliness at more than one point, but the movie remains fun throughout. Think of it as a veteran's version "Eagle Eye", a film you kind of throw up your hands towards and go "it's....whatever man". If you turn your brain off and try to enjoy the action, you most likely will. But if you start to question the reality of, well, all of the film, then this thing has more holes than swiss cheese. So there you have it.
October 21, 2007
Dan Schultz
Dan Schultz

Super Reviewer

Ronin Quotes

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    1. Gregor: It would be nice to do something.
    2. Sam: We are doing something. We're sitting here, waiting.
    – Submitted by Bryan S (7 months ago)
    1. Sam: What's the color of the boathouse at Hereford?
    – Submitted by Bryan S (7 months ago)
    1. Sam: Tell me about an ambush. I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!
    – Submitted by Bryan S (7 months ago)
    1. Vincent: What would I profit from your death?
    – Submitted by Musa I (14 months ago)
    1. Sam: I don't remember. That's lesson number two.
    – Submitted by James B (14 months ago)

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