Killer Elite

2011
16
1 Std. 56 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

137.022

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Robert De Niro, Jason Statham, and Clive Owen in Killer Elite (2011)

When his mentor (Robert De Niro) is taken captive, a retired member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service (Jason Statham) is forced into action. His mission: kill three assassins dispatched by their cunning leader (Clive Owen).

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Action Thriller

Als sein Mentor von einem arabischen Scheich gefangen genommen wird, wird ein Auftragskiller zum Handlen gezwungen. Seine Mission: Tötete die drei Mitglieder des britischen Elite-Sonderflugd... Alles lesenAls sein Mentor von einem arabischen Scheich gefangen genommen wird, wird ein Auftragskiller zum Handlen gezwungen. Seine Mission: Tötete die drei Mitglieder des britischen Elite-Sonderflugdienstes, die für den Tod seiner Söhne verantwortlich sind.Als sein Mentor von einem arabischen Scheich gefangen genommen wird, wird ein Auftragskiller zum Handlen gezwungen. Seine Mission: Tötete die drei Mitglieder des britischen Elite-Sonderflugdienstes, die für den Tod seiner Söhne verantwortlich sind.

Regie
- Gary McKendry
Drehbuch
- Matt Sherring
- Ranulph Fiennes
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,4/10

137.022

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Gary McKendry
Drehbuch
- Matt Sherring
- Ranulph Fiennes
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 2 Gewinne & 8 Nominierungen insgesamt

Videos26

Trailer 2:05

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Trailer 1:39

Teaser Trailer

Killer Elite: Sheikh Amr Gives Assignment

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Killer Elite: Spike Interrogates Danny

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Killer Elite: Desert Tunnel Chase

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Sir Ranulph Fiennes, an English adventurer, polar explorer and former S.A.S. man is the author of The Feather Men, the novel on which this film is adapted. Although he has often claimed the novel was a true story, the families of the real dead S.A.S. men named in the novel who died on S.A.S. exercises, and the S.A.S. themselves publicly attacked it as sick exploitation and complete fiction. The S.A.S. even went on the record to disown both Fiennes and the book, with Lieutenant Colonel Ian Smith telling the Daily Mail "It was utter bullshit", the figment of a fertile imagination. What was really upsetting, was that it was making a story out of a tragedy." Maggie Denaro, the widow of one of the dead S.A.S. men said of Fiennes, "It's time he grew up. He's made his money out of the book. He should come clean. When the book came out saying Mike had been murdered, we knew it wasn't true. But that didn't stop our children from being upset when other people believed it." Although Fiennes claims he sent a manuscript of the book to the S.A.S. and the families of the dead men, who gave their approval, they have all unequivocally denied his claim.

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Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Folge #19.214 (2011)

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Composed by Barry Mason (as B. Mason) / Les Reed (as L. Reed)
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Used with permission

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Ausgewählte Rezension

6/10

Surprisingly Flat

I'm not sure what it was about Killer Elite that disappointed me, but it just didn't seem to live up to its potential. It might have been that the movie relied on Jason Statham to act, instead of just do action. He plays a retired hit man who gets pulled out of retirement to save a friend's life. But it just doesn't work, he's unconvincing. The retirement isn't convincing and neither is his reluctance to return to work. He was much better in the Mechanic which dealt with similar issues.

Overall the movie doesn't hold together very well. There is too much that they are trying to accomplish, but not enough gets developed. For instance, the romance between Danny (Statham) and Anne (Yvonne Strahovski) just seems to be cut in to the movie in a few places. The Feathermen (the group about whom the book the movie draws from is written) appear in a few scenes, yet they're role is barely explored. They are spliced in just enough to give Spike (Clive Owen) a support system.

It's not a terrible movie, but it could have been much more. I think it would make a better mini-series, so that the different parts could be explored properly. If not, eliminate the things that aren't given justice.