Production Year: 1998 - Action/Adventure - Director: John Frankenheimer - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Jonathan Pryce, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Sean Bean, Katarina Witt, Stellan Skarsgaard more
David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal... more
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Ronin [DVD] [1998]
Robert De Niro stars as an American intelligence operative adrift in irrelevance since the ... more
end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, aka "ronin". With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors w...
Ronin [DVD] [1998]
Robert De Niro stars as an American intelligence operative adrift in irrelevance since the ... more
end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, aka "ronin". With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors w...
end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, aka "ronin". With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors w...
mathematician (Penn) a grieving mother (Watts) and a born-again ex-con (Del Toro) in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's fantastic multi-layered follow up to his debut 'Amores P...
end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, aka "ronin". With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors w...
Ronin [Blu-ray] [1998]
Robert De Niro stars as an American intelligence operative adrift in irrelevance since the ... more
end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, aka "ronin". With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors w...
end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, aka "ronin". With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors with nothing but time on their hands. Their mission, as defined by the woman who hires them (Natascha McElhone), is to get hold of a particular suitcase that is equally coveted by the Russian mafia and Irish terrorists. As the scheme gets underway, De Niro's lone wolf strikes up a rare friendship with his French counterpart (Jean Reno), gets into a more-or-less romantic frame of mind with McElhone and asserts his experience on the planning and execution of the job--going so far as to publicly humiliate one team member (Sean Bean) who is clearly out of his league. The story is largely unremarkable--there's an obligatory twist midway through that changes the nature of the team's business--but legendary filmmaker John Frankenheimer (Seconds,The Manchurian Candidate) leaps at the material, bringing to it an honest tension and seasoned, breathtaking skill with precision-action direction. The centrepiece of the movie is an honest-to-God car chase that is the real thing: not the how-can-we-top-the-last-stunt cartoon nonsense of Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon) but a pulse-quickening, kinetic dance of superb montage and timing. In a sense,Roninis almost Frankenheimer's self-quoting version of a John Frankenheimer film.There isn't anything here he hasn't done before but it's sure great to see it all again.--Tom Keogh
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Plot: A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in Paris. Sam, an American, may be ex-CIA. Vincent, the terminally cool Frenchman, is a mystery. Russian computer whiz Gregor is presumably ex-KGB, and Spence, a British demolitions man, and Larry, another American, round out the team. They've been hired by the IRA, through liaison Deirdre, to steal a briefcase of unknown contents somewhere in Europe.
Release details
DVD Region: Blu-ray
Studio(s): MGM ENTERTAINMENT; 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal only to themselves. A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in Paris. Sam (Robert De Niro), an American, may be ex-CIA. Vincent (Jean Reno), the terminally cool Frenchman, is a mystery. Russian computer whiz Gregor (Stellan Skarsgaard) is presumably ex-KGB, and Spence (Sean Bean), a British demolitions man, and Larry (Skipp Suddith), another American, round out the team. They've been hired by the IRA, through liaison Deirdre (Natascha McElhone), to steal a briefcase of unknown contents somewhere in Europe. As the unit races from one spectacular location on the French Riviera to another, the Tec-9 reigns, the body count mounts, some Russian gangsters get into the act, and the betrayals come fast and furious. In a rare comic moment, Sam stitches up his own bullet wound, an act of tongue-in-cheek Hemingwayism, and asks a friend to finish before he passes out. RONIN features an exceptional cast, sumptuous locations, and the kind of realistic, high-coefficient-of-adversity car chases and action scenes that one expects from a director of John Frankenheimer's skills.
Advantages: Fantastic Quality Colours and Sharpness ... Keeps the whole family ammused. Disadvantages: None I have found
...I personally loved this movie before I bought it on BluRay ... but I love it even more now! The colours and animation just come to life in the new vivid contrasting BluRay version.
The Movie :
The movie is a barrel of laughs from start to finish ... with a few heart touching moments thrown in. In the middle of the countryside there is a pack of rats. One in paticular .. Remy has a keen nose for food. He sneaks into a farmhouse and pinches ingredients for his own recipes... he watchs Gusteau a former top chef from paris on television with passion as the old lady of the house is sleeping in the armchair.
The with a comical turn of events in the young rats life he ends up in paris ... sneaking around Gusteau's former restaurant. He meets a friend and together they are set to take paris's food critics on a tasty journey. How will they...
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Advantages: high quality and an awesome film Disadvantages: far more expensive than the regular DVD
...My first experience with Kindgom of Heaven was at my house on a normal DVD, now my eyes have been opened. At a friends house we watched this on Bluray and it was phenominal.
The film itself bears little to fault, it is a good story with a range of different characters some likeable others not so. It is fast paced with a lot of bloody action that unfolds as the christians fight to hold Jerusalem.
Orlando Bloom's portrayel of Bailin the blacksmith, (illigitimate son of a knight played by Liam Nesson (of whom i am a great fan) is good and we are introduced to his character and the background strait away. His wife had killed herself over the sadness of their still born son, his brother an unlikable priest has her head removed from her body upon her burial. He later confronts the blacksmith about the affair in an unspeakable...
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Advantages: Fast paced action with great cast and special effects. Disadvantages: Timothy Olyphant is not the typical bad guy like previous Die Hards.
...Bruce Willis is back for the 4th part of the Die Hard series, and he has come back in style. He still epitomises all that made the first three films great, and infact goes further to make his character even more appealing.
Die Hard has gone into the future, with Blue Ray that is. I had been waiting for years after Die Hard with Avengance to see Bruce Willis take up the role of John McClane in Live Free or die hard (DH4) and to see it in BluRay made it extra special. The explosions, graphics and visual effects were unbelievable. The BluRay experience was made specifically for Die Hard in my belief.
The plot of this Die Hard is quite different to the former installments. The film begins showing computer hackers providing sensitive material and information to an operative of a terrorist group. The hackers are tricked into giving...
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