Killer Elite

2011

Action / Crime / History / Thriller

113
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 42% · 124 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 42% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 140443 140.4K

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Plot summary

Based on a shocking true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world’s most elite operatives—Danny, an ex-special ops agent and Hunter, his longtime mentor—against the cunning leader of a secret military society. Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of cat and mouse—where the predators become the prey.

Director

Gary McKendry Photo
Gary McKendry

Top cast

Jason Statham Photo
Jason Statham as Danny
Christian Manon Photo
Christian Manon as Various French
Robert De Niro Photo
Robert De Niro as Hunter
Nick Tate Photo
Nick Tate as Commander B
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751.37 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 56 min
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2.15 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
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23.976 fps
1 hr 56 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Violent and nail-biting film dealing with a killer-for-hire carries out a bloody revenge to free his partner

Stirring as well as non-stop action movie , being allegedly based on facts , though the SAS even went on the record to disown both writer Fiennes and his book . After a brilliantly exciting opening in a thrilling terrorist action executed by Danny (Jason Statham) his mentor named Hunter (Robert De Niro , he is the only American born actor in this film) is taken captive by a disgraced Arab sheik, then the killer-for-hire is forced into action . His assignment : kill three members of Britain's elite Special Air Service responsible for the death of his sons . As it concentrates on the painful vendetta proceeded by an Arab oil magnate , as he kidnaps Hunter and coerces to Danny his search for revenge . Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny helped by Davies (Dominic Purcell), and Meier (Aden Young) pull off his relentless mission to free their colleague who is being held captive . This moving picture contains thrills , unstoppable action , betrayal , fighting , car pursuits and lots of deaths , as it has a great body count : 21 . There are echoes here of many other action movies and behind the deceits , plot twists and manipulation is essentially a simple yarn . This is a thrilling picture in which our main starring , Jason Statham , is plunged into a highly dangerous game of vendetta and deception - where things are not always what they appear to be . The film is built around the internal secret services and SAS which sidelines in dirty work that ever the CIA won't touch . The flick contemplates the old themes of trust , friendship , vengeance , treason , cold violence and humiliation . The set pieces such as car chases , impressive as well as violent fights and a roof chases including bounds and leaps are all magnificent , as are so many secondary scenes . Interesting screenplay by Matt Sherring plenty of twists and turns , being inspired by the book "The Feather Men" written by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, this was an English adventurer, polar explorer and former SAS man is the author of The Feather Men, the novel from which this film is adapted . Although he has often claimed the novel was a true story, the families of the real dead SAS men named in the novel who died on SAS exercises and the SAS themselves publicly attacked it as sick exploitation and complete fiction . As mentioned above, all the families and the British special forces denied they had been consulted or involved in any way with the book . The main cast is pretty good such as Jason Statham , Clive Owen , Yvonne Strahovski and Robert De Niro . Though the main starring results to be Jason Statham who from Transporter (2002) he already had a background in martial arts which enabled him to perform his own fight sequences , he followed in several similar roles as a two-fisted hunk in Charles Bronson ink such as War , Crank , The mechanic , Safe , Parker , Blitz , Hummingbird , Homefront , Wild card among others . Support cast is frankly well such as Dominic Purcell, Ben Mendelsohn, Anden Young , Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , Nick Tate , Bille Brown, Stewart Morritt, and Grant Bowler . Atmospheric and appropriate musical score by Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek . Colorful and adequate cinematography by Simon Duggan . The motion picture was professionally directed by Gary McKendry , though has ups and downs . Rating : 6 . Acceptable and passable . Not very good , but enough to be going on with .
Reviewed by classicsoncall 7 / 10

"Killing's easy. Living with it is the hard part."

Pretty standard action thriller with a globe trotting formula that's a feature of a lot of them these days. Jason Statham is stoic as a hired assassin who would like to quit the business but is sucked back in when his former mentor Hunter (Robert De Niro) is held for ransom by a dying Sheikh (Rodney Afif). The Sheikh is highly motivated to get revenge on the men who killed his three older sons, but it would have been a good idea for him to find out his youngest (Firass Dirani) didn't give a tinker's damn about going back to the desert to live with the camels. The interesting aspect to the picture has two of the world's premier assassins, Danny (Statham) and Spike Logan (Clive Owen) in each other's cross hairs merely for being on opposite sides of the story. I thought by the end of the film they would have mended fences for trying to kill each other, it almost looked like it at one point but Danny's moral superiority got in the way. For De Niro, this was one of his easier paychecks because he wasn't in the middle of most of the action. He bookended the story with a less physical role, which you can forgive because the guy was about sixty eight when he made the picture. Left unresolved at the finale was why Danny refused his share of the Sheikh's money for accepting his assignment. If he gets over his bruised ego, maybe Spike will deliver the share at a later date.
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