Killer Elite
Killer Elite
R | 23 September 2011 (USA)
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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.

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Clevercell

Very disappointing...

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Allison Davies

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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Anoushka Slater

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Lela

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

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Expecting your standard Statham Thick-Ear action flick? Well, that's what you get....sort of. The USP is that it is set in 1980 with all that implies in terms of cars and haircuts ( esp Dominic Purcell! ).Welcome to the movie that "The Professionals" could have been. From the dodgy right-wing worldview to classic UK motors screaming round corners, it's all there. With a Daily Express world view and A Daily Star view of women ( mostly slappers with one exception ) one half expects Cowley to show up.Of the talent Statham is Statham - there's an attempt to tire-lever in a love angle but it just makes you miss the shooting. Robert De Niro takes yet another pay packet for phoning it in. Clive Owen glowers and postures and looks faintly embarrassed to be in this codswallop.A Friday night pizza action movie with classic motors, dodgy politics and Jason Statham.

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Sankari_Suomi

Jason Statham muddles his way through yet another formulaic mess. A retired killer seeking to escape his past something something something SAS, something something British government and a secret society, something something oil in the Middle East. Or something.It's all so tedious, you won't even care who's who or why they're doing whatever they're doing. Most of the characters are completely interchangeable, there's no development, and the entire plot is just a handful of adjectives strung together with verbs. I rate Killer Elite at 13.32 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a dull 4/10 on IMDb.

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juneebuggy

I quite liked this, it has a different vibe and wasn't your typical Hollywood action thriller filled with huge stunts and shoot-outs just for the sake of (although there is still a ton of action.) Inspired by a true story this has an intriguing plot and great locations with Statham playing a former black-ops agent who is forced back into action when his mentor (DeNiro) is taken captive by an Arab sheik. In order to free him he must kill three members of Britain's elite SAS, responsible for the death of his sons.I actually enjoyed DeNiro here which I haven't been able to say about him in ages and Clive Owen does a great job too. Statham is always a good time and Killer Elite contains one of my all-time favourite fight scenes of his, which sees him tied to a chair, still kicking ass and then throwing himself out a window, it's awesome. Although I will say that for the most part he tones things down, with more realistic, less choreographed and showy fights, even losing a couple. 8/18/14

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Danny (Jason Statham) is a former elite services operative who finds himself having to come out of retirement when he discovers that his mentor Hunter (Robert De Niro) has been kidnapped by an Arab sheikh. The sheikh explains that he will let Hunter go and will pay him the sum of 6 million if he kills the 3 men responsible for killing the sheikh's sons. He calls upon his former associates Davies (Dominic Purcell) and Meier (Ade Young) to assist him with this task. However, this is no ordinary task and Danny and co are being forced to kill highly trained Special Air Services operatives led by Spike (Clive Owen). Will Danny be successful in this mission and ultimately free his mentor? Killer Elite starts off well and the final third of the film was pretty good. For me, the problem was the middle portion of the film which to me was just not particularly engaging, lacking in excitement and it lacked suspense. We have to remember that Danny and his operatives will at best only be as skilled as the Special Air Services members, yet in every single instance when Danny and Spike's operatives battle it out it was always Danny's men that came out on top. This is good so far as cheering on the good guy's goes, but seeing Danny and his boys always getting the upper hand made the film less tense and ultimately less believable. I always feel that the amount of enjoyment that you get from a film depends on how believable you find the characters or their actions and Danny's boys always getting the upper hand so easily didn't ring true to me. Then we come to how repetitive the film was - every time one of Spike's operative got killed we had a board meeting, operative killed, board meeting, rinse, repeat yawn!!!. The twist isn't entirely surprising and I found it to be a 'groan' type twist rather than a 'shock' type twist.Killer Elite isn't all bad and one of its major strengths is in its characters - Statham plays another ass kicker with a heart (it is becoming a bit of a cliché with him, but generally if I like a character then it means that I'll want to root for them). Likewise De Niro's character is also a likable guy. The best character for me in this film was Davies - in all honesty, prior to this film I'd only seen Dominic Purcell in Prison Break and thought he was a bit wooden when he was in that series. However, in Killer Elite he really brought his character to life and I can now see that he is a much better actor than I originally gave him credit for - all this despite his dodgy tash and beard combo lol. The era has also been captured well - lots of 70's car models and retro tunes - I remember 'I fought the law' playing at one point, but I'm sure there were countless other examples.Killer Elite is an OK film where its only really big faults are in its rather dull and repetitive story. I feel a bit bad butchering this film as it is based on a true story, but I just found it hard to get into it. As mentioned, the era was captured well, the characters were pretty cool and the acting was generally good. If only the story had been a bit more engaging.

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