Product Description
Jason Statham (The Italian Job), Academy Award® hopeful Clive Owen (Inside Man) and Academy Award® personality Robert De Niro (Raging Bull) star in Killer Elite, "one of a best movement thrillers of a year!" (Richard Roeper) When dual of a world's many chosen operatives -- Danny, a late agreement torpedo (Statham), and Hunter, his longtime coach (De Niro) -- go adult opposite a deceit personality of a tip troops multitude (Owen), their hunt takes them around a creation from Australia to Paris, London, and a Middle East. As a stakes arise along with a physique count, Danny and Hunter are shortly plunged into an action-packed diversion of cat-and-mouse where no one is what they seem. Based on a intolerable loyal story, it's an explosive, no-mercy disturb float where a predator eventually becomes a prey. Starring: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Yvonne Strahovski, Ben Mendelsohn, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Directed by: Gary McKendry
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #563 in DVD
- Brand: NBC Universal
- Released on: 2012-01-10
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English, Spanish
- Running time: 116 minutes
Editorial Reviews
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They're not accurately The Expendables, though a thought of entertainment Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert De Niro for special ops avocation in Killer Elite gives arise to some simple expectations: and certain enough, there's Statham as a cool, compress lerned killer, and De Niro as a decrepit seen-it-all-veteran of some really off-the-record assassinations, and Owen as a smooth-talking (and curiously mustachioed) insider with a disaster to purify up. These 3 fellows competence indeed make for a badass group in some general thriller, though this sold general thriller is so ham-handed and breathlessly "stylish" that a actors are stranded amidst a relentless noise. De Niro's impression gets kidnapped early in a record (and spends many of a film off-screen), so Statham contingency come behind on a pursuit and rescue his aged killer-in-arms. But there's a bigger tract a-turning, formed on Ranulph Fiennes's novel, that was allegedly a genuine story of espionage, nonetheless this explain has been disputed. (This film is not associated to Sam Peckinpah's 1975 film The Killer Elite). Director Gary McKendry serves adult some bone-crunching moments, that roughly drown out a sound of a tin-ear dialogue, and Owen manages to emerge with grace intact. That will have to sufficient as a recommendation for hard-core movement fans. --Robert Horton
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First tagged "thrillers" by Theodore B. Forcht
Customer tags: action packed(3), adventure, action, thriller, drama
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33 of 40 people found a following examination helpful.
By Ronald Belton
In 1980, a rich Omani business male in outcast hires late agreement torpedo Danny, played by Janson Statham, to kill a SAS soldiers who killed his sons. A private classification of ex SAS group tasks Spike, played by Clive Owen, with safeguarding them. Unlike many movement cinema this one has a good plot, and is ideally cast. It also contains one of a best quarrel scenes on film.
6 of 6 people found a following examination helpful.
By Grady Harp
KILLER ELITE is a loyal story taken from a book 'The Feather Men' by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, blending for a shade by Matt Sherring, and destined with an eye toward speed by Gary McKendry. The bit of story that a film addresses is a issue of a Dhofar Rebellion launched in a range of Dhofar opposite a Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, that had British support, from 1962 to 1976. It finished with a better of a rebels, though a state of Oman had to be radically reformed and modernized to cope with a campaign. The fact that 3 sons of a Sheik of Oman were killed by a British withdrawal a Sheik with a clever need for punish so that he can recover his dominion by promulgation his remaining son to a protected land is a springboard for a film's plot.
Before a film's movement begins, a Sheik has taken hired murderer Hunter (Robert De Niro) serf since he unsuccessful to kill a murderers of his 3 sons. The film opens in 1980 a banished Sheik (with his remaining son Bakhait - Firass Dirani) hires Hunter's student Danny (Jason Statham), a late member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service, to kill a 3 assassins of his sons. A private classification of ex SAS tasks group headed by Spike (Clive Owen) is reserved to strengthen a British assassins. Covering a creation from Australia to Paris, London and a Middle East, Danny and Hunter, dual of a worlds' many chosen operatives, are plunged into a rarely dangerous diversion of cat and rodent - where a predators turn a prey.
There is copiousness of implausible movement in a form of one-on-one fights between Statham and Owen, automobile chases, and other acts of derring-do to keep a film rolling. At times a tract gets murky and some of a characters are not good tangible - those played by Domenic Purcell, Aden Young, Ben Mendelsohn and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje in particular. And of march there is a claim intrigue between Statham and Yvonne Strahovski, that helps alleviate a film periodically. But fundamentally this is an movement film; a categorical reason it is of such seductiveness is a fact that it is formed on a loyal story - a story whose story is common in a shutting credits. Definitely a film for Statham/De Niro/Owen fans! Grady Harp, Jan 12
30 of 40 people found a following examination helpful.
By Jerome Gotti
don't know what a bad reviewers are articulate about, this, in my opinion, is a 5 star movie. movement packaged from a beggining to a end, and it's in a 80's. i favourite it
UPDATE : after examination it for a second time, it's a 4 star movie
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