Davies and Meier agree to help Danny for a share of the money. He is then shot by a gunman, but not before shooting back, taking his killer with him. This will allow the sheikh's fourth son, Bakhait (Firass Dirani), to regain control of his father's desert region. Danny is shot when he becomes distracted after realizing he has killed the man in front of the target's young child. Los Angeles, 31 January 2011: Essential Entertainment has joined Lion Rock Productions in its remake of THE KILLER in 3D, currently in … "[12], The Washington Post praised the film as "... a disarmingly funny and sympathetic action-suspense melodrama" and noted, "Neither the ads nor the opening wave of reviews have given the picture much credit for humor, which happens to be its strongest attribute. Hunter is released, while Danny heads back to Australia and reunites with Anne (Yvonne Strahovski), a childhood acquaintance. A three-way battle ensues, with Danny escaping and Logan shooting the government agent. Peckinpah's use of violence in the fim, Kael continued, "... isn't gory and yet it's more daring than ever. Hansen and his team launch an assault on Chung's safehouse, but Locken manages to protect the Chungs and lead their escape unscathed, laying low at a pier where Collis will extract Chung with a yacht the following day. The Killer Elite cannot pass without a mention of the fact that it was the last collaboration between Peckinpah and Jerry Fielding (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs) who died way too young at 57 and who remains unheralded outside of film score aficionado circles. A scene where The Welshman leaves a building was shot on Kings Road, Pontcanna, showing Kings Road Doctors' Surgery and residential buildings. [1] Locations included the San Francisco Yacht Club, Pier 70, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marin Headlands, San Francisco International Airport, Chinatown, Portsmouth Square and the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. Locken assembles his old team, including driver Mac and marksman Jerome Miller, but they do not know that Collis is in collaboration with Hansen, hoping to unseat current ComTeg director Lawrence Weybourne. [citation needed], The film marked the film debuts of Tom Clancy, better known as a singer and stage actor, and Tiana Alexandra, who was cast after karate expert Hank Hamilton, an advisor on the film, brought her to the producers' attention. Collis appears and offers Locken a bribe, but Locken shoots him in the arm and kneecap, using the same lines that Hansen gave him when he betrayed him. With Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell. In 1980, mercenaries Danny Bryce (Jason Statham), Hunter (Robert De Niro), Davies (Dominic Purcell), and Meier (Aden Young) are in Mexico to assassinate a man. There is good news and bad news about John Woo’s forthcoming remake of his 1989 crime drama The Killer. ‘The Killer’ remake: A leap forward for Lupita Nyong’o, a leap back for John Woo Action fandom is getting in a twist with the news that John Woo is remaking arguably his best-loved movie – 1989’s The Killer. A decent-enough remake was released in 2011 with Robert De Niro, Clive Owen, and Jason Statham, but the original contains that special brand of Peckinpah craziness that he brought to his action scenes; few have done slow-motion shoot-outs and macho confrontations the way he did. Weyburn arrives with reinforcements and the remaining ninjas scatter. He only wounds the man, however, taking pictures that appear to show him dead. Locken declines Weybourne's job offer but keeps Collis' yacht and the bribe money as payment. The good news is that it’s still being … The Killer Elite is a 1975 American action thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and written by Marc Norman and Stirling Silliphant, adapted from the Robert Syd Hopkins novel Monkey in the Middle. Watch Killer Elite Online. Danny must videotape their confessions and make their deaths look like accidents, all before the terminally ill sheikh dies. The Twilight Time release also features an isolated soundtrack and an excerpt from the Peckinpah film biography Passion and Poetry. He explains that he is working for Collis and argues that the shooting of Locken was not personal. [10] Several elements from the book were altered to make the film seem more believable to a cinema audience. Hunter takes some of the money for his expenses and his family. O’Leary, a CIA agent, hires ComTeg to protect Yuen Chung, a Taiwanese politician who arrived in the United States with a delegation that includes his daughter, Tommie. Agent's several meetings with other characters at a stone, columned monument were shot at the Welsh National War Memorial in Alexandra Gardens, Cardiff. exercises, and the S.A.S. Sir Ranulph Fiennes, an English adventurer, polar explorer and former S.A.S. Affected by this, Danny retires and returns to his native Australia. Danny and Meier find Harris still living in Oman and gain access to his house pretending to be researchers making a documentary. Sam Peckinpah was assigned to direct The Killer Elite by United Artists head Mike Medavoy, who believed in Peckinpah's abilities but knew that it was virtually impossible for Peckinpah to obtain a job with any of the studios, as he had alienated many people in Hollywood. Danny sends Anne to France so Hunter can protect her. With the help of the inexperienced Jake (Michael Dorman), Meier kills McCann; however, Logan and his men were watching over McCann. Conveniently, it stars Statham as an assassin-for-hire who wants out of … Mike Locken and George Hansen are longtime friends and professional partners, agents of Communications Integrity (ComTeg), a private intelligence agency that handles covert assignments for the CIA. The film, which had a gala-premiere at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2011,[7] has received negative reviews from critics. After stopping the sheikh's men, Danny and Hunter confront Logan on a desert road. The film represents the last collaboration between Peckinpah and soundtrack composer Jerry Fielding. In the film, the British Foreign Office is supposed to be in collusion with the sheik in order to guarantee oil leases on the sheik's land. Locken telephones Weybourne and tells him about Collis' treachery. The Killer Elite. Filming began at Docklands Studios Melbourne in May 2010. Danny is shot when he becomes distracted after realizing he has killed the man in front of the target's young child. "[10] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune awarded the same 2.5-star grade and criticized the "moralizing dialog" as well as "half-hearted martial arts battles" that "come off as a sop to the young kung-fu movie audience. [7] Others, such as Pauline Kael, praised Peckinpah's direction and action sequences,[8] and commended the film as a self-aware satire.[9]. He later discovers that if Jennie does not undergo an expensive operation she will go blind. The sheikh's son does not care; he gives Logan the money. Apparently in the early 1980s an Arab sheik upset that his son was killed by the SAS during … When his mentor is taken captive, a The film was shot in March and April 1974 in San Francisco, with additional filming on location in Los Angeles. They leave the remainder, telling Logan that he will need it to start a new life after killing the government agent and acting against the wishes of the Feather Men and the British government. 2011. The Internet Movie Database cites a number of locations used for filming. Killer Elite is a 2011 action thriller film starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. An old sheikh from Oman wants revenge for his sons that were killed by the British Special Air Services (SAS) during the civil war in the country. In England, Davies travels to a pub known to be frequented by British military personnel and questions bar patrons about former SAS members in Oman. Their deaths must appear accidental to avoid reprisals. Weybourne points out that a man like Locken has nothing else but his job. In July 2010, Jason Statham's scenes were shot at the Brecon Beacons in Wales. The Killer Elite was released on DVD by MGM on April 1, 2003, as a French Blu-ray by Wild Side (under license from MGM) in 2013 and as a limited-edition Blu-ray by Twilight Time in the U.S. that includes a rare 1966 television adaptation of Noon Wine directed by Peckinpah for ABC-TV's Studio 67. Davies is tracked down by Logan's men, and is hit by a truck and killed while trying to escape. Locken wants to shoot, but Chung accepts the challenge and, after a short battle, kills Toku. In the book, 'The Clinic' tried to ambush him at his farmhouse in, This page was last edited on 12 March 2021, at 11:55. 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