Saturday, 18 August 2012

Anything but elite

Killer Elite (2011)

Directed by Gary McKendry this film claiming to be based on a true story features Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. A mercenary is forced to come out of retirement to hunt down former British special forces soldiers to save his friend.

There are huge problems with the content of this film, it departs massively from it's source material which is in itself some what questionable to begin with. Attempting to make the hit men more sympathetic does not work given their actions and if the events of the film was based on changing them from terrorists is borderline offensive. The execution of the film is not bad but the moral quagmire of the content is just too much to get past with this film.

2/5

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