Killer Elite
2011
Action / Crime / History / Thriller

Killer Elite
2011
Action / Crime / History / Thriller
Plot summary
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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Violent and nail-biting film dealing with a killer-for-hire carries out a bloody revenge to free his partner
"Killing's easy. Living with it is the hard part."
Pretty standard action thriller with a globe trotting formula that's a feature of a lot of them these days. Jason Statham is stoic as a hired assassin who would like to quit the business but is sucked back in when his former mentor Hunter (Robert De Niro) is held for ransom by a dying Sheikh (Rodney Afif). The Sheikh is highly motivated to get revenge on the men who killed his three older sons, but it would have been a good idea for him to find out his youngest (Firass Dirani) didn't give a tinker's damn about going back to the desert to live with the camels. The interesting aspect to the picture has two of the world's premier assassins, Danny (Statham) and Spike Logan (Clive Owen) in each other's cross hairs merely for being on opposite sides of the story. I thought by the end of the film they would have mended fences for trying to kill each other, it almost looked like it at one point but Danny's moral superiority got in the way. For De Niro, this was one of his easier paychecks because he wasn't in the middle of most of the action. He bookended the story with a less physical role, which you can forgive because the guy was about sixty eight when he made the picture. Left unresolved at the finale was why Danny refused his share of the Sheikh's money for accepting his assignment. If he gets over his bruised ego, maybe Spike will deliver the share at a later date.