Ronin (UMD)
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David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the masterless samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal only to themselves. 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 Yank, round out the team. They've been hired by the IRA, through liaison Deirdre, to steal a briefcase of unknown contents somewhere in Europe. As the unit races from one spectacular location on the French Riviera to another, the Tec-9 reigns, the body count mounts, some Russian gangsters get into the act, and the betrayals come fast and furious. In a rare comic moment, Sam stitches up his own bullet wound, an act of tongue-in-cheek Hemingwayism, and asks a friend to finish before he passes out. 'Ronin' features an exceptional cast, sumptuous locations, and the kind of realistic, high-coefficient-of-adversity car chases and action scenes that one expects from a director of John Frankenheimer's skills.
Entertainment Weekly - p.70 - 5th March 1999
...Bracing sequences....A welcome throwback....[De Niro] makes most recent action-movie figures look like callow jocks... -- Rating: B+
New York Times - p.E15 - 25th September 1998
...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...
USA Today - p.6E - 23rd October 1998
...This throwback to director John Frankenheimer's vintage international thrillers has an attractively old-fashioned feel...
Rolling Stone - p.133-4 - 15th October 1998
...RONIN represents an exhilarating return to form for Frankenheimer....The real deal in action fireworks...