Ronin
Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money. Dierdre (undoubtedly from Ireland) hires several Ronin to form a team in order to retrieve an important suitcase from a man who is about to sell it to the Russians. After the mission has been completed successfully, the suitcase immediately gets switched by a member of the team who seems to work into his own pocket. The complex net of everyone tricking everyone begins to surface slowly, and deadly...
Released: 1998
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, United Kingdom, United States
Director: John Frankenheimer
Producer: FGM Entertainment, United Artists, United Artists
Cast
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