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A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in Paris. Sam, an American, may be ex-CIA. Vincent, the terminally cool Frenchman, is a mystery. Russian computer whiz Gregor is presumably ex-KGB, and Spence, a British demolitions man, and Larry, another American, round out the team. They've been hired by the IRA, through liaison Deirdre, to steal a briefcase of unknown contents somewhere in Europe.
...Bracing sequences....A welcome throwback....[De Niro] makes most recent action-movie figures look like callow jocks... -- Rating: B+
...An extraordinary cast of actors, all on the same formidable wavelength, match wits most impressively....Mr. De Niro shows off a brooding, hard-guy panache with its own brand of international appeal...
...This throwback to director John Frankenheimer's vintage international thrillers has an attractively old-fashioned feel...
...RONIN represents an exhilarating return to form for Frankenheimer....The real deal in action fireworks...