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Killer Elite (Blu-ray) (DVDVerdict)
# The Charge
"Killing's easy. Living with it's the hard part." -- _Danny_
# Opening Statement
It's easy to make assumptions about **Killer Elite**, which comes off in
advertisements as just another generic Jason Statham vehicle (that's an Audi
8, right?). In actuality, this "true story" is a smart spy thriller with a
1980s setting and a 1970s action sensibility.
# Facts of the Case
Danny (Jason Statham, **The Bank Job**) and Hunter (Robert DeNiro, **Raging
Bull**) have been contract killers long enough to know when its time to call
it quits. Getting out of the business proves to be difficult when a vengeful
sheikh from Oman kidnaps Hunter and forces Danny into one last job: he has to
kill the three retired British SAS agents that murdered the sheikh's sons.
Standing in Danny's way is Spike (Clive Owen, **Children of Men**) and The
Feather Men. They're a secret group of ex-SAS operatives that act as
protectors to their fellow retirees, and Spike is their young-ish, idealistic,
one-eyed leader. What was originally a simple contract kill turns into a
complex game of cat-and-mouse that reaches further and deeper than anything
Danny anticipated.
**Killer Elite** is based on the book ...
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