Film Review: Killer Elite

First hook for me, main cast was Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. A legend and two understated actors, in the same film.

Second hook, from the trailer, it looked like a good action film.

It is. But a hell of a lot better than I first expected. First time screenwriter,  Matt Sherring (still a shock) and doubly shocking, first time feature film director: Gary McKendry. It is also based on the book by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, and the basis is drawn from real events.

I was seriously expecting to see a long list of well done films for both these guys, considering the high level of quality I had just seen.

From the styling and story line, I also expected some influence from Ian La Frenais, Roger Donaldson and Dick Clement, the writer director team that brought us the film The Bank Job.

Both films give us a taste of something that first sounds to be everyday violence and thriller type of thing, but actually goes a lot deeper and the depth is perfectly balanced with the "action scenes".

Killer Elite was a really good film and I recommend it to anyone who loved The Bank Job (or any other awesome film), or is simply after a brilliant action film where Jason Statham is in a fight scene.

Either way, everyone is covered.

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  1. Film & TV Commentator9 April 2013 at 23:51

    This quote is from another action film, not as deep as Killer Elite, but still quite clever in the way that no one is who they first appear to be.

    “Peter: [eating meatloaf from the fridge exhausted] This beats all of the meatloafs.
    May Parker: Something's very wrong.
    Ben Parker: Yeah, nobody likes your meatloaf."

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