|
List Price: $14.98Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 You Save: $6.99 (47%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Now!
This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9786305263241
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305263248
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 23, 1999
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 4407
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 25, 1998
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Film about a group of former intelligence agents of various nationalities who are contracted to carry out a dangerous mission.System Requirements:Starring: Jean Reno et al. Director: John Frankenheimer Edition Details: Region 1 encoding (for use in US and Canada only) Color Widescreen Dolby Closed-captioned Commentary by director John Frankenheimer Never-before-seen alternate ending 8 page booklet featuring insights into the making of the film Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats Number of discs: 1 Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 027616743923 Manufacturer No: 907439
Amazon.com essential video:
Robert De Niro stars as an American intelligence operative adrift in irrelevance since the end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, a.k.a. "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 centerpiece 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, Ronin is 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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
If you love nonstop car chases through the streets of europe, shootouts, and backstabbing this is your movie. There's not much depth here, very little plot. Very long, and actually quite boring. You wait for the payoff and never get it. Watch Italian Job instead.
Rating: -
"Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt. That's the first thing they teach you."
"Who taught you?"
"I don't remember. That's the second thing they teach you."
Ronin is undoubtedly John Frankenheimer's final masterpiece. Here is a film that stands out from the majority of the other large-scale productions that surrounded it in its day. Looking back on it now, a decade has passed since I saw this at the theatre although it sure doesn't feel like it at all. 1998 ... Read More
Rating: -
Ronin is not your typical CIA spy movie ala James Bond, it's actually realistic. Maybe that's what hurt this movie with some reviewers and at the box office. What we get with Ronin is a serious spy/action movie of that genre that brings together a ragtag group of mercenaries who are hired to retrieve a briefcase at any cost. What's inside the briefcase? Well, we never know. But who cares, really? It's not about that really. It's about the suspense, espionage, and double-crossing this movie brings ... Read More
Rating: -
John Frankenheimer's 1999 "Ronin" could easily have been another forgetable action movie. Instead, Frankenheimer manages to invest the plot with real tension and the characters with significant depth. The result, a loose riff on a Japanese legend about 47 masterless samurai, is an atmospheric thriller.
Robert DeNiro stars as a ostensibly out-of-work covert operative who answers a job interview in Nice, France, for an unidentified project on behalf of an unnamed sponsor. The mission, as described ... Read More
Rating:  -
John Frankenheimer's film regarding a team of rogue agents hired to obtain a mysterious suitcase for their obscure employers. The plot is rudimentary with a loose story and undeveloped characters but presents some good action sequences with exciting car chases.
Frankenheimer tries to present the theme of the rogue agent by obscuring the purpose of the mission and the true motivation of the characters involved. Unfortunutely, this leaves the film with a minimal plot where no one knows much about the ... Read More
Television Show
Collectibles
Movie Searches
|
|
|
Search for posters,
art prints, photos, collectables, merchandise, toys, t-shirts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Join the Nielsen//NetRatings Research Panel and you could win a new car, a dream vacation, a dream home makeover or $50,000 Cash!
TV Guide
Program listings, celebrity profiles, industry
gossip, movie reviews, puzzle.
More
Entertainment
& TV Magazines
This site is
Hosted
by Bluehost
Read
my Bluehost Review
Original Superhero & other designs for t-shirts, bumper
stickers, prints, mugs, and other cool merchandise. |
|
