Killer Elite is the middle interested in being a legitimate exploration of the dark world of the former British special forces officers, but too afraid not to deliver the doses clockwork heart of the action and violence probably expected Jason Statham international audience. As if it would be a great movie like The Bank Job, created by some of the same team, but refuse to give up on proven formulas, muscular thriller becomes essentially the job done, but not all, he could have received the exciting source material. Macho big baits and many lawsuits and visceral melee should clarify a good deal, especially abroad."Killing is easy. Living with it is the hardest part, "says Statham is Danny, who should know. At the special-ops agent excellence hand in hand, Danny and his mentor, the aptly named Hunter (Robert De Niro), show what they are made by pulling a coup in Mexico delicate motor-set opening sequence. But since he can not bring himself to join a young kid who is traveling in the caravan, Danny knows he has done, and retire to a farm in Australia, where he hopes to leave the past behind.
Not only are the opportunities. Some years later, in 1980, trimly white-haired, self-Danny is attracted to Oman, where there is the aging Hunter tribal sheik who is paying $ 6 million and a free hunter when Danny takes off like the murders of his three children, all of which are helpfully illustrated in a free and gratuitous violence, flashbacks. Even after the second cause of a bloody action scene, Danny is trying to get out of the Hunter-Sheikh capture and kill many of his henchmen in the process, tribal chief Danny still wants the job. But as with all the emotion caper worthy of salt, there are very specific conditions: the victims must be recognized in the video, what they did, and every killing is pulled out of a different style, so that the appearance of any links with the other.
Thus begins the hunt, with a first stop in Paris, where Danny brings together two groups, they can do former paratrooper-Davies (Dominic Purcell), and technical ability, Meier (Aden Young). The targets are all former members of the British secret Special Air Service, which is protected by veterans of Big Shot top of the organization known as the "Men of the pen," which was the title of the controversial 1991 "fractions" novel by Sir Ranulph Fiennes Explorer, even a former SAS man, based in Oman for several years.
Among the many omissions and changes in the book produced by the starting time writer and debut director Matt Sherring Gary McKendry is that SAS was in Oman in the 1970s (successfully) to fight an insurgency is operating in Germany and pro-Soviet communist South Yemen, an indication of what might usefully be changed, or at least become more complex, cartoonishly bad profile Guy SAS crew is given here. This is one example of how the film follows a formal model instead of embedding the ironies, ambiguities and social understanding (as The Bank Job is so nicely) to enrich the material.
So it is best to lower expectations and enjoy the view of Danny and his guys up and sending their victims, including the infiltration of an SAS training base, but more often is the standard tropes car chases, shootouts and brutal melee. Danny main enemy is the one-eyed murderer Spike (Clive Owen), a guy so hard conservative men of letters of wine at times, making it an agent of increasingly dangerous thugs.
As the action jumps across the Middle East in London, rural England and returned to Paris, with short waiting times to idealize the life of Danny back to Oz with his sexy, always patient (Yvonne Strahovski), McKendry designed to Shinkansen speed above all, keep things humming quite effectively. But because the plot is based on three huge success, with a couple of big stands to follow, what is missing is what often gives "job" its highest honor of the film, the methodical accumulation a mission not only absorbs a hearing on the details of a complex operation, but increases tension and suspense, aristocrats of crime that can not happen. It is not enough on screen to entertain and stimulate, but the catch and takes a few in
What you get, then, is fairly well executed, and sometimes the brutality of the imagination and action, look vaguely interesting, but enough precision to the legacy of a dirty war and certainly the characters involved, and show hire three different varieties of the iconography of the artists on display: Statham, the wild man of few words, always willing to be, reluctantly, by the action; Owen, formidable twists, explosive, not reduced, and De Niro at this stage have nothing easier to demonstrate, by far the hottest guy in the screen. They are fun to watch.
However, some of the secondary characters are given more vivid and recognizable to the public identification faster and more resonant. Polish script and quick to produce some of the memorable lines tough guy could not have helped.
The film is not related to Sam Peckinpah's 1975 feature Killer Elite American mercenaries and the CIA.
Location: Toronto Film Festival
Released: September 23 (Open Road)
Production: OMNILAB Media, Entertainment Atmosphere
Starring: Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, Yvonne Strahovski, Ben Mendelsohn, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Director: Gary McKendry
Writer: Matt Sherring, inspired by the book "Men of the pen" by Ranulph Fiennes
Manufacturers: Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Steven Chasman, Michael Rameau, Tony Winley
Executive producers: Christopher Mapp, Matthew Street, David Whealy, Peter D. Graves
Director of Photography: Simon Duggan
Production designer: Michelle McGahey
Author: John Gilbert
Music: Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil
R-rated, 114 minutes