Ronin
A freelancing former US intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians.
- Director:John Frankenheimer
- Genre:Action | Crime | Thriller
- Runtime:122 minutes
Cast
Robert De Niro : Sam
Jean Reno : Vincent
Natascha McElhone : Deirdre
Stellan Skarsgård : Gregor
Sean Bean : Spence
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In a warehouse on the outskirts of Paris, Deirdre (Natascha McElhone) meets with Spence (Sean Bean), Larry (Skipp Sudduth), Gregor (Stellan Skarsgård), Vincent (Jean Reno) and Sam (Robert De Niro), all former special forces soldiers or intelligence operatives. Deirdre briefs the men on their mission, attacking a heavily-armed convoy and stealing a briefcase, its contents unknown. Following the briefing, the team begins assembling their equipment, Deirdre meets with her handler Seamus O’Rourke (Jonathan Pryce), who reveals that Russian gangsters are bidding for the case and that the team must act quickly to intercept it. Later, Spence is exposed as a fraud and is summarily released from the team. The others depart for Nice, where over several days they observe the convoy and form an ambush plan. The team ambushes the convoy and pursues the survivors through the surrounding countryside. After a lengthy car chase and gun battle, Gregor betrays the team and steals the case for himself before disappearing.
Gregor attempts to sell the case to the Russians but shoots his contact when he attempts betrayal. Gregor contacts Mikhi, the leader of the gangsters and threatens to sell the case to the Irish unless Mikhi pays a grossly inflated price for the case, which Mikhi agrees to. Meanwhile, the rest of the team track Gregor through one of Sam’s old CIA contacts and corner him in the Roman arena in Arles. Following a tense standoff and hectic firefight with Gregor and the Russians negotiating with him, Gregor escapes the coliseum but is kidnapped by Seamus, who kills Larry and escapes with Deirdre just as Sam and Vincent emerge from the coliseum. Sam, wounded from the fight, is taken by Vincent to his friend Jean-Pierre (Michael Lonsdale) in a villa in rural France. After removing the bullet and allowing Sam time to recuperate, Vincent asks Jean-Pierre to help him locate Gregor, Deirdre and Seamus. Meanwhile, in a Paris slum, Seamus learns that Gregor has mailed the case to himself at a post office in Paris. Days later, as they retrieve the case in Paris, they are ambushed by Vincent and Sam, Sam confronts Deirdre who is waiting for Seamus and Gregor outside the post office. Realizing that Sam has feelings for her and won’t execute her she speeds off and following a high-speed chase through the streets and tunnels of Paris, Vincent shoots out Dierdre’s tires and sends her car over a highway overpass. Gregor emerges from the car with the briefcase while Deirdre and Seamus are later pulled away by construction workers shortly before the car explodes, Gregor once again escapes with the case. Read more
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