Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Ronin (1998)



One of my favourite movies.Car chasing scenes are perfect and the story itself.De Niro and Reno stars.

I love this movie, watched several times.There are some stupid points in the story but acting is great.De Niro,Reno,McElhone,Skarsgard,Bean and Pryce.What a cast team! There are some stupid points like for example I never understand why gregor needs to point a gun at a kid in the park,why de niro sets up a childish, stupid ambush to bean just to show his inability.It is not convincing.There are several ways to make a point but not this much childish.Of course the huge one is in the beginning :) De Niro hides that gun and makes his point.I think director wants people to think this is the though guy ,you have to buy it.It is funny.

Apart from these stupid points,that car chases are amazing.I think the best one is when De Niro and Reno point gun at Gregor and Seamus.It starts from that point.
I think what makes it great is that it starts without any music on the background,after some point it starts and it starts slowly ,step by step it gets stronger.There are some points in the car chase that it makes me think this it is realistic and convincing.Such as the motorcyle gets hit by the car,police car joins into the car chase in the tunnel, before car flies off the road McElchone's expression behind the wheel,a parisienne driver in the car gets shot in the tunnel,Seamus shots side-mirror of the car De Niro drives.The ambush car chase is also amazing but I choose this one because it is well thought planned and shot.I wonder how the director managed to shoot those scenes.

Few words for McElhone,I love that seduce game between De Niro and her.It is so perfect told that I start sensing it from the scene when they have that small quarrel in the room in Nice.McElhone plays that seduce game perfectly and she makes me sense that she's been dragged by De Niro little by little.She's attractive.

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