Ronin is some kind of crime, espionage, action-adventure movie.<\/p>\n
(Spoiler Alert \u2013 Skip down to last paragraph to avoid spoilers and read recommendation)<\/strong><\/p>\n Robert De Niro is Sam, a former CIA operative who is signing on to a heist of some kind of important property in a steel case that\u2019s locked to a courier\u2019s wrist and guarded by four cars-full of armed men travelling in the south of France.\u00a0 We never learn what\u2019s in the case.\u00a0 Maybe very valuable military secrets maybe unobtainium. \u00a0He has been hired by a woman named Diedre with a decidedly Irish brogue.\u00a0 He is joined by a team of men to pull off this assignment.\u00a0 Sean Bean plays Spence, allegedly a former British special forces soldier.\u00a0 Jean Reno plays Vincent a French soldier of fortune.\u00a0 The last gunman is someone named Larry who never seems to display any real characteristics.\u00a0 And Gregor who is a German former KGB agent is the technical asset.\u00a0 He uses electronics to monitor the activities of the couriers and provides information on their route and timetable.<\/p>\n While retrieving the guns needed for the mission the team is ambushed and it is quickly learned that Spence is a fake and has no experience as a soldier.\u00a0 He is paid off by Diedre and dismissed.\u00a0 Sam and Vincent gravitate to each other as the two men who have the best idea about how this mission will go down and they have each other\u2019s backs during the ensuing events.\u00a0 Also, it\u2019s obvious that they share a similar outlook on the world they inhabit.<\/p>\n We find out that Diedre\u2019s boss is an ex-IRA soldier named Seamus O’Rourke played by Jonathan Pryce.\u00a0 He hangs back from the team only contacting Diedre to monitor the team\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n The attack on the courier is carried out.\u00a0 Enormous quantities of bullets and other explosives are expended, incredibly difficult car chases ensue and finally all of the target team is killed.\u00a0 Finally, Gregor takes the case from the dead courier.\u00a0 But he makes a switch with the real case and hands off an explosive case that Sam barely discovers and tosses away in time to avoid killing the rest of the team.<\/p>\n Now Diedre and her team must locate Gregor before he can sell the case to his old employers the Russians.\u00a0 More car chases ensue and eventually Gergor is tracked but before the team can capture him Seamus rejoins the story.\u00a0 He orders Diedre to abandon the team and the two of them capture Gregor and drive off with him.\u00a0 In the incident Seamus kills Larry against the feeble protests of Diedre.<\/p>\n Sam locates Seamus and they have an even more unbelievable car chase running the wrong way on an expressway.\u00a0 Eventually Seamus, Diedre and Gregor\u2019s car crashes.\u00a0 Gregor manages to escape with the case and Seamus and Diedre barely escape the burning car.\u00a0 When the authorities arrive Sam and Vincent retreat from the scene.<\/p>\n Now Sam and Vincent regroup while Sam has an inconvenient bullet removed from his side and they work out where they think Gregor will meet with the Russians to sell the case.\u00a0 Of course, there\u2019s a very convenient Russian Ice Ballet show in Paris so away they go.<\/p>\n At this point every one but Sam and Vincent betray everyone else in a hopscotch of double crosses.\u00a0 Gregor has a sniper ready to shoot the Russian mobster\u2019s girlfriend, the skater, if he isn\u2019t allowed to leave with his money.\u00a0 The Russian shoots Gregor and abandons his girlfriend to the sniper and flees the arena.\u00a0 Seamus shows up as a security guard and shoots the Russians and takes the case.\u00a0 He also shoots Vincent who was right behind the Russians. \u00a0Sam finds Diedre in the getaway car and warns her that he is still an active CIA agent and is after Seamus not the case.\u00a0 He lets her escape and now without an escape route Seamus turns and shoots it out with Sam.\u00a0 Sam is hit in the shooting arm and Seamus prepares to finish him off.\u00a0 But a wounded Vincent shows up in time to dispatch Seamus.<\/p>\n The movie ends with Sam and Vincent saying goodbye at a bar.\u00a0 Vincent reads that Sam was hoping Diedre would show up to see him.\u00a0 Vincent lets him know that doesn\u2019t happen in real life.\u00a0 They part as friends.<\/p>\n This is a pretty wild adventure movie.\u00a0 The car chases are way, way over the top.\u00a0 But by the same token they\u2019re technically very well done.\u00a0 The acting is what you would expect in an action-adventure movie.\u00a0 De Niro and Jean Reno successfully achieve the needed buddy-movie sympatico thing.\u00a0 Even the feelings between Sam and Diedre weren\u2019t so silly that they ruined the movie.\u00a0 Seamus, Gregor and the Russians were all very acceptable bad guys.\u00a0 All in all, I\u2019d say Vincent was the most relatable character in the movie.\u00a0 Which is something in a movie of this sort.\u00a0 I would call this a highly recommended movie for someone looking for action adventure with a decent story to it.\u00a0 For everything else it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ronin is some kind of crime, espionage, action-adventure movie. 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