Not enough people have seen this movie. It's a 70's classic made in the 90s. It a cast full of heavy hitters at the peak of their craft. It is a masterful exercise in tension and release. It is my favorite movie to always elude my mind when someone asks about it. Thank you for reminding me how much it rocks.
^^THIS!!^^ I never think of this movie when people ask me 'what are your favorite movies' or whatever, but every time I see anything relating to it, my absolute love for it comes immediately flooding back, and I cant believe I've forgotten about it. And your '70's classic made in the 90's' is the absolute best description I've read to describe it.
"It's a 70's classic made in the 90s" - That might be the best description for this movie I've ever read. On point. Lots of influences from classic gritty 70s Hollywood movies (French Connection, Pelham 123 ...) as well as from European cinema of that time, esp. the French 60s/70s crime movies (Melville ...). And I'm right with you, pretty underrated/less known, one of the best action movies of the 90s. But maybe that's the reason, to "classic", not 90s enough.
Finally! A criminally underrated film with an excellent script, A list actors and some of the best car chases ever put on film. Thank you for this one. Oh, there was an alternate ending to the film that appears on the DVD. Deirdre is walking down a street in France and gets grabbed and pulled into an unmarked van never to be seen again.
Frankenheimer made this movie with so many Hitchcockian references. The case being the obvious MacGuffin. However the characters were also the MacGuffin too. They have very vague or little backstories or none at all, which gives more intrigue to the movie. Frankenheimer's method of multi angle cameras is also used in his films. Sam firing the bazzuka at the car is one obvious example of this
The greatest movie nobody's heard of. Terrific pacing and character development, great all-star cast, and those car chase scenes! Oh yeah, and De Niro's one-liners. "I ambushed you with cup of coffee."
@@bmw128racer coolest/craziest stuff is when the car gets hit with the grenade launcher, there was a stuntman in it triggering it off!I had the dvd with audio commentary!
I totally agree with Emily. Said the same thing ages ago when I first saw this film. No music during the car chase scenes made it all the more intense. Great review, guys!
One of my favorite action thrillers, plus it has three Bond villains in one movie. Sean Bean from Goldeneye, Jonathan Pryce from Tomorrow Never Dies, and Michael Lonsdale from Moonraker.
Having seen DeNiro in this, now you need to watch "Heat". From about the same time, another stellar cast at the top of their game, and hands down the best cop/robber/heist movie ever made.
@@HistoritorJimaldus The shootout scene is great (as is the whole movie), and IMO the sounddesign of that shootout is unmatched. I never saw a movie where the sound seems so real and puts you so much right into the action as that one.
This was on TV the other day. I used to have it on DVD one of the greatest car chase scenes in movie history, amazing acting and directing. I love that they have Leon the professional with Robert De Niro.
La Femme Nikita 1990 , Victor , the cleaner , Leon 1994 , same role . Wasabi 2001 Jean Reno in Japan , same type of plot than in Leon , Written by Luc Besson. Best US movie car chases are Bullit 1968 , French connection , Vanishing point (remake 1997) , Gone in 60 sec (remake 2000) and the Driver (baby driver 2017 kinda remake) , all from 1970s .
You surprisingly hit upon many of my lifelong zeitgeist moments with films that a lot of other reactors don't seem to pick up on. I still can't believe that you did The Last Dragon. This movie has such a great cast and somehow was woefully overlooked. Reno and DeNiro sounds possibly weird on paper but the two are so easy with one another on-screen. The sets and locations give me a very updated The French Connection vibe.
The other reactors follow a common watch-list released by "i dont know who". Happens too many times to see the same movie reaction by a lot of people at the same time. Luckly this channel, and very few other, follow their own lead.
I think that this movie ensured that Jean Reno was cast in the first Mission: Impossible movie. Another Jean Reno movie that I loved is "Wasabi", which takes a more comedic turn on the action movie.
@@YouHaventSeenMeRight Mission Impossible was made before Ronin. More probable that Léon: The Professional helped Reno for MI 1. He did become THE French actor of Hollywood for a good 10-15 years.
it wasn't until several years after watching this movie, that I truly got it. when playing Lineage 2, a Korean MMO, people would often band together 'for the task' when a boss appears... you'd see the broadcast of 'we're hunting!', you sign up, you don't know what you gonna fight, who's going there, or how they play, but you sign up anyways. Once you're in the fight, if you're fighting alongside experts or total noobs, it shows... one of them will stand out, for better or worse. And once you're out of there, everyone goes their separate ways, more often than not to then meet up again somewhere else as enemies, and beat the crap out of each other. "That's the job... you take it and move on."
One of my favorite movies, just well executed in every department. I wish there were more reactions to this flick so I'm dropping everything to watch this one! 'Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt' has stuck with me since first seeing this back in 2003.
Michael Lonsdale was such a treasure and I never thought about it but je would have make a great Dumbledore. This is just a great spy thriller, loved your reaction.
Devil's Advocate, Ronin and Heat are some of the greatest movies that will ever be made. Heat is even on another level to this movie. The Jackal is also brilliant.
The film Ronin has three actors that have played James Bond villians. Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax in Moonraker. Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye. Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies.
1) Frankenheimer is known for his driving scenes, with low angles of filming, just makes them very fast and tense. and 2) The skater girlfriend was Katarina Witt, a famous gold medal skater for Germany I believe.
Unfortunately I'm not on patreon so I am SO GLAD this gem got final pick. Loved your giddyness all throughout this viewing. I miss Michael Lonsdale so much... I hope his Day of the Jackal gets a viewing soon.
I loved the part when we can hear Lonsdale and Gambon voices, one is French and the other is Irish lmao. Love your channel guys, Love from Glasgow, Scotland!!
i love this movie. the script had an uncredited rewrite by David Mamet...some of the lines like "f***ed into a cocked hat" are ones he's used elsewhere. they used some F1 drivers for the car chases. Jean-Pierre, the old guy they go to for help when De Niro is shot, was Hugo Drax in Moonraker. the ice skater was actual olympic champion Katarina Witt. Pippin was really into this, once the twists started he was paying attention
The car chases are so great and so chaotic that when watching them tonight I was halfway convinced that they were guerrilla filmed rather than being planned out in advance.
I love how they all had a past (except for wannabe coffee ambush guy), but even though they're all badasses in their own ways they were terrified during the big car chase and the shootouts. I like that they were scared and not some super composed professionals like James Bond. Driving fast in traffic is difficult, but driving fast in oncoming traffic would be terrifying. I like that they actually drove the cars in oncoming traffic. If you look at the tach and speedometer inside the BMW they're actually doing 40-50 mph. Usually when cars are on tow trucks in movies the speedometer reading 0 mph and the car not running is a dead giveaway.
This is a classic action movie with professionals only involved as main characters and all criminals (an exception occurs to me now but it's a slight one) being in various degrees "professionals" which for once seem to be fairly realistic. I simply loved the cast (more so even than the characters, different cast and this could have gone very dull or plain boring. As it stands it's extremely engaging, and I loved that you appreciated it at least as much as I did possibly even more. This is not the usual kind of movie (pardon me, film ;) ) I am usually drawn to but at the same time I think within it's genre it's one of the best made in my lifetime so among the best in the past half century give or take (do take) a decade or so. The cast IS indeed superb. And your reaction makes my day (as it has made many other days past and looking forward to that being the case in the future). Many kudos to reacting to this gem in a way that has uplifted me no end and maybe many other ppl as well so: Thanks!
It was hypothesized by a film podcast that the case contained the details of Princess Diana's murder, who died in an auto "accident" in Paris a year before this movie was released, so this happened right about the same time they were actually filming the movie. Also, "the sound of european cars" in this case is just the BMW (Euro) M3 from that year, nobody loves the sound of any other car in this movie.
The figure skater is “Katerina Witt” 2-time gold medal winner! I saw her first time in 1994 Winter Olympics (her last before retiring) and was excited to see her in this movie 4 years later!!!
Director John Frankenheimer got his start doing live TV shows in the 50's. Some of his movies you should check out - "The Manchurian Candidate", "Seven Days in May", "Seconds", "The Train", "Grand Prix", "The French Connection II", "Black Sunday".
Never tired of seeing this film and it was a good bonus seeing Emily trying to understand the infinite betrayals and all, I too was very confused the first time I've seen this gem of a movie. I always wanted a sequel but a the same time its very special that it neve did 😊
#title So glad somebody finally reacted to this - nice one guys. Three suggestions for you: Flashback (1990) No Way Out (1987) A Matter Of Life And Death (1946) Don't let the age of the last one put you off: it's a quality piece of work that totally stands up today.
I love how this movie starts out like, "Hi, I'm a John LeCarre-type 'thinking person's' spy movie" and then says, "nope I'm full of gunplay, explosions and car chases--psyche!" The other great Frankenheimer film is the original (60s) version of The Manchurian Candidate, featuring a wonderful performance by Angela Lansbury. I've had a soft spot in my heart for Michel Lonsdale ever since he played Claude Lebel, a police detective on the trail of an assassin in The Day of the Jackal. I was delighted to see him pop up here as Vincent's friend/mentor. The look he gives when DeNiro says, "I would never hurt a friend" lets us know that wasn't his concern at all. Quite the contrary. Btw, Day of the Jackal is worth seeking out. It's based on a bestselling thriller that's tremendously suspenseful. And the movie... isn't. But it's still engrossing because it's two "how to" manuals in one: how to plan the assassination of a high-profile target and how to search for a man about whom you have no information at all--but what you DO have is the entire French police apparatus at your disposal. The result is a great cat and mouse game. Enjoy! Thanks for the reaction!
Sat through this movie twice in Theatre back to back. So good, so nuanced. Caught my friends and I by surprise as we had not heard of this movie when we picked it (Robert De Niro is always a win).
one of my favourite movies, from a favourite genre....European set Espionage thrillers, this is such an old style movie, even then, a throwback and i love it when Sean Bean, who is cool in everything, isn't even in the top 4 of cool characters, you have an amazing cast
I find it hard to believe that a seasoned CIA operative would Not know what Sepuku is! For a long time I thought this was John Frankenheimer's last movie but a check on IMDB cleared that for me. The last one of his that I had seen was Reindeer Games (2000) but apparently he directed a TV movie called "Path to War" in 2002 and a segment of a short film called "The Hire" starring Clive Owen in a compilation of short films in 2003!
My hats off to the Patreon member who chose this awesome but often overlooked film, amazing cast and for my money it has some of the best high speed car scenes, it's not over the top, all practical and very realistic, which I have to give extra points for, great choice! Now we absolutely, have to see Emily's reaction to The Cutting Edge!!!
OH $***T! you guys reviewed this movie??!! This is one of my all time favorites! 😀.... Watching it now! - Ok, just finished watching the video. ... Very good review! 😊 One of my favorites. Keep it up you two. 👍
OMG! Stellar Skateboard!! You made a reference to the the thing that was also made by the other thing! 🤣 seriously though, I love it when one of my favorite YT channels references my favorite podcast. Worlds colliding!! 😊
In 98 I went to France and while I was there I saw the Gypsy King’s perform in the exact coliseum from the scene after the car chase in the middle of the film and then 3 months later this movie came out
The film shows how confusing and terrifying driving fast through an uncontrolled environment (ie not a dedicated secured track) is. You drive round a corner and then have to react instantly to what is there - you can't plan out your turns ahead, or predict some idiot changing lanes. The stunt drivers are outstanding and the behind-the-scenes stuff is fascinating.
"That's another line that I love." Well, of course, the movie is full of them because it was written by David Mamet. I also suggest two more of his criminally overlooked films, "Spartan" with Val Kilmer and "Heist" with Gene Hackman. Not a Frankenheimer film, but William Friedkin's 'To Live and Die in L.A." makes a great companion movie to this one. Another one of the best car chase scenes on film.
John Frankenheimer directed a 1966 movie GRAND PRIX about Formula One staring James Garner ,the racing scenes are epic, a combination of actual races in the 1966 season where they had a camera car on track during races,and actors driving modified F2 cars the camera car they used was a FORD GT, the opening 30 mins of the movie is the race around Monaco to me it's better than anything in FORD VS FERRARI , or Ron Howards movie RUSH, i think it's on youtube
Yes, Frankenheimer pioneered the science of fixing film cameras to vehicles while working on Grand Prix. When it had been tried before the aim had been to keep the cameras insulated from the vibrations so that the picture would be steady. Frankenheimer realised that having the shaky image made it more exciting.
Very entertaining reaction folks. John Frankenheimer is known for his love of cars and car chases. All realistic and practical. Check out The French Connection II. A sequel as good as the original.
My next door neighbour is in this movie, and plays his role really well. His name is Stellan, and he's a really cool guy. In this movie he plays this sleazy bloke perfectly
One of the rare films where Sean Bean doesn't die! If you like Natasha McElhone, see the raunchy comedy show Californication (main star is David Duchovny).
DeNiro is excellent in this, and Frankenheimer has never been better from an action perspective. I've always been a bit baffled why this wasn't bigger. My suspicion is that as DeNiro had been lazily cashing-in with a few bad movies in the run-up to this one that action fans stayed away. A shame, because DeNiro is tremendous and has a great chemistry with Reno. Lots of 'Hey it's that guy!' fun too, and Pryce always makes a good baddy. It's clear that the makers of Bourne were taking detailed notes, watching this.
It is overlooked by too many people, this one. I am glad you watched it, not just because it's great, but because hopefully the video stays up without strikes and that signals to other reactors that they can monetize a reaction too.
Remy Julienne wasn't involved in "Ronin" 🙂 The coordinator for the car stunts was Jean-Claude Lagniez, a former Rally driver and longtime collaborator of Remy Julienne. Stunt drivers were, amongst others, former Formula 1-driver Jean-Pierre Jarier who mainly doubled De Niro, sports car racing drivers Michel Neugarten (doubling for Natacha McElhone and flipping the BMW) and Guy Chasseuil and also guys from Remy Julienne's stable like Gilbert Bataille (famous for driving the tanker truck sideways in James Bond 007 - Licence to Kill).
Other great Frankenheimer films are Black Sunday, the original The Manchurian Candidate, 52 Pick-Up, and Seconds. Oh, and 1979’s Prophecy, while not great, is quite fun.
Great, great movie. I was surprised that I didn't see in the comments (as far as I scrolled) that anyone mentioned the figure skater was played by Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic gold medalist for Germany.
I distinctly remember understanding absolutely nothing about this movie when it came out. I had no idea what the plot was and left the theater totally confused.
Such an underrated movie. I think the reason not a lot of people watched it is because it came out a week after Rush Hour and went under people's radar.
Oh, I don't know if you noticed, but watch this video from the start, and keep an eye on Pippin. All the way through Emily's intro, he was makin' biscuits, then shortly after he's got a paw on Emily's shoulder. It's almost like he's supercharging a move, then applying it. What move? That's for your imagination......and a writing prompt, for the aspiring writers among the comments.
Not enough people have seen this movie. It's a 70's classic made in the 90s. It a cast full of heavy hitters at the peak of their craft. It is a masterful exercise in tension and release. It is my favorite movie to always elude my mind when someone asks about it. Thank you for reminding me how much it rocks.
^^THIS!!^^
I never think of this movie when people ask me 'what are your favorite movies' or whatever, but every time I see anything relating to it, my absolute love for it comes immediately flooding back, and I cant believe I've forgotten about it.
And your '70's classic made in the 90's' is the absolute best description I've read to describe it.
Perfect description.
You said tension and release
And it is a rare instance where Sean Bean....***SPOILERS***...survives.
"It's a 70's classic made in the 90s" - That might be the best description for this movie I've ever read. On point. Lots of influences from classic gritty 70s Hollywood movies (French Connection, Pelham 123 ...) as well as from European cinema of that time, esp. the French 60s/70s crime movies (Melville ...).
And I'm right with you, pretty underrated/less known, one of the best action movies of the 90s. But maybe that's the reason, to "classic", not 90s enough.
Ronin, AKA "Why Have One Of The Best Car Chases Ever When You Can Have Two".
Finally! A criminally underrated film with an excellent script, A list actors and some of the best car chases ever put on film. Thank you for this one. Oh, there was an alternate ending to the film that appears on the DVD. Deirdre is walking down a street in France and gets grabbed and pulled into an unmarked van never to be seen again.
Frankenheimer made this movie with so many Hitchcockian references. The case being the obvious MacGuffin. However the characters were also the MacGuffin too. They have very vague or little backstories or none at all, which gives more intrigue to the movie. Frankenheimer's method of multi angle cameras is also used in his films. Sam firing the bazzuka at the car is one obvious example of this
The greatest movie nobody's heard of. Terrific pacing and character development, great all-star cast, and those car chase scenes!
Oh yeah, and De Niro's one-liners.
"I ambushed you with cup of coffee."
Ronin is such a great movie, and tragically overlooked. Such great car chases, DeNiro and Reno at the top of their game … just a top notch experience.
Tragically overlooked by the TH-cam reaction crowd as well. 😕
@@bmw128racer coolest/craziest stuff is when the car gets hit with the grenade launcher, there was a stuntman in it triggering it off!I had the dvd with audio commentary!
I totally agree with Emily. Said the same thing ages ago when I first saw this film. No music during the car chase scenes made it all the more intense. Great review, guys!
One of my favorite action thrillers, plus it has three Bond villains in one movie. Sean Bean from Goldeneye, Jonathan Pryce from Tomorrow Never Dies, and Michael Lonsdale from Moonraker.
Having seen DeNiro in this, now you need to watch "Heat". From about the same time, another stellar cast at the top of their game, and hands down the best cop/robber/heist movie ever made.
Greatest shootout scene ever put to film too
YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@HistoritorJimaldus The shootout scene is great (as is the whole movie), and IMO the sounddesign of that shootout is unmatched. I never saw a movie where the sound seems so real and puts you so much right into the action as that one.
Heat is in my top 3.
Kikmer and Pacino are killing it in Heat. And the shootout is great.
The other movie with great gun work is Triple Frontier.
Besides the great action scenes, what made this movie memorable to me was the impeccable chemistry between Robert De Niro and Jean Reno.
I had to sit in the front row for this movie, and the chase scenes mede me literally dizzy. Loved it.
"Sean Bean?! Oh Lord, he gonna die...." 😆
Emily is officially a cinema veteran now.
But the ironic part is that this is the one movie where his character realises he’s been played by Sean Bean and nopes out!
@@HistoritorJimaldus He still suffered a death... of his dignity.
This was on TV the other day. I used to have it on DVD one of the greatest car chase scenes in movie history, amazing acting and directing. I love that they have Leon the professional with Robert De Niro.
La Femme Nikita 1990 , Victor , the cleaner , Leon 1994 , same role . Wasabi 2001 Jean Reno in Japan , same type of plot than in Leon , Written by Luc Besson.
Best US movie car chases are Bullit 1968 , French connection , Vanishing point (remake 1997) , Gone in 60 sec (remake 2000) and the Driver (baby driver 2017 kinda remake) , all from 1970s .
You surprisingly hit upon many of my lifelong zeitgeist moments with films that a lot of other reactors don't seem to pick up on. I still can't believe that you did The Last Dragon. This movie has such a great cast and somehow was woefully overlooked. Reno and DeNiro sounds possibly weird on paper but the two are so easy with one another on-screen. The sets and locations give me a very updated The French Connection vibe.
The other reactors follow a common watch-list released by "i dont know who". Happens too many times to see the same movie reaction by a lot of people at the same time.
Luckly this channel, and very few other, follow their own lead.
Ronin director John Frankenheimer actually directed the sequel to French Connection.
@@gluecement Ah well that makes sense then, I had no idea that he directed this film, thanks!
I think that this movie ensured that Jean Reno was cast in the first Mission: Impossible movie. Another Jean Reno movie that I loved is "Wasabi", which takes a more comedic turn on the action movie.
@@YouHaventSeenMeRight Mission Impossible was made before Ronin. More probable that Léon: The Professional helped Reno for MI 1. He did become THE French actor of Hollywood for a good 10-15 years.
Stellan, Robert, Jean, Natascha, Sean, Jonathan, Europe. So many all-stars, love this film.
it wasn't until several years after watching this movie, that I truly got it.
when playing Lineage 2, a Korean MMO, people would often band together 'for the task' when a boss appears... you'd see the broadcast of 'we're hunting!', you sign up, you don't know what you gonna fight, who's going there, or how they play, but you sign up anyways. Once you're in the fight, if you're fighting alongside experts or total noobs, it shows... one of them will stand out, for better or worse. And once you're out of there, everyone goes their separate ways, more often than not to then meet up again somewhere else as enemies, and beat the crap out of each other.
"That's the job... you take it and move on."
Watching Emily's eyes as her brain tried to wrangle the various plot points happening in real time was the absolute best part of this!! Loved it!
One of my favorite movies, just well executed in every department. I wish there were more reactions to this flick so I'm dropping everything to watch this one! 'Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt' has stuck with me since first seeing this back in 2003.
"I wish there were more reactions to this flick so I'm dropping everything to watch this one!" Agreed! 👍
Michael Lonsdale was such a treasure and I never thought about it but je would have make a great Dumbledore. This is just a great spy thriller, loved your reaction.
Devil's Advocate, Ronin and Heat are some of the greatest movies that will ever be made. Heat is even on another level to this movie. The Jackal is also brilliant.
The film Ronin has three actors that have played James Bond villians. Michael Lonsdale - Hugo Drax in Moonraker. Sean Bean - Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye. Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies.
Well spotted!
"The map is not the territory" was the dictum of Alfred Korzybski, philosopher of General Semantics
1) Frankenheimer is known for his driving scenes, with low angles of filming, just makes them very fast and tense. and
2) The skater girlfriend was Katarina Witt, a famous gold medal skater for Germany I believe.
He also films them at actual speed.
My dad and I watched this when I was a teen and we both loved it. The car chases, the action, everything is so well done.
Unfortunately I'm not on patreon so I am SO GLAD this gem got final pick. Loved your giddyness all throughout this viewing.
I miss Michael Lonsdale so much... I hope his Day of the Jackal gets a viewing soon.
I loved the part when we can hear Lonsdale and Gambon voices, one is French and the other is Irish lmao. Love your channel guys, Love from Glasgow, Scotland!!
i love this movie. the script had an uncredited rewrite by David Mamet...some of the lines like "f***ed into a cocked hat" are ones he's used elsewhere. they used some F1 drivers for the car chases. Jean-Pierre, the old guy they go to for help when De Niro is shot, was Hugo Drax in Moonraker. the ice skater was actual olympic champion Katarina Witt.
Pippin was really into this, once the twists started he was paying attention
The car chases are so great and so chaotic that when watching them tonight I was halfway convinced that they were guerrilla filmed rather than being planned out in advance.
I love how they all had a past (except for wannabe coffee ambush guy), but even though they're all badasses in their own ways they were terrified during the big car chase and the shootouts. I like that they were scared and not some super composed professionals like James Bond. Driving fast in traffic is difficult, but driving fast in oncoming traffic would be terrifying. I like that they actually drove the cars in oncoming traffic. If you look at the tach and speedometer inside the BMW they're actually doing 40-50 mph. Usually when cars are on tow trucks in movies the speedometer reading 0 mph and the car not running is a dead giveaway.
This is a classic action movie with professionals only involved as main characters and all criminals (an exception occurs to me now but it's a slight one) being in various degrees "professionals" which for once seem to be fairly realistic. I simply loved the cast (more so even than the characters, different cast and this could have gone very dull or plain boring. As it stands it's extremely engaging, and I loved that you appreciated it at least as much as I did possibly even more. This is not the usual kind of movie (pardon me, film ;) ) I am usually drawn to but at the same time I think within it's genre it's one of the best made in my lifetime so among the best in the past half century give or take (do take) a decade or so. The cast IS indeed superb. And your reaction makes my day (as it has made many other days past and looking forward to that being the case in the future). Many kudos to reacting to this gem in a way that has uplifted me no end and maybe many other ppl as well so: Thanks!
It was hypothesized by a film podcast that the case contained the details of Princess Diana's murder, who died in an auto "accident" in Paris a year before this movie was released, so this happened right about the same time they were actually filming the movie.
Also, "the sound of european cars" in this case is just the BMW (Euro) M3 from that year, nobody loves the sound of any other car in this movie.
18:52 "Oh no." 😮
18:57 "Oh no!" 😳
19:06 "Ohh nooo." 🫤
Happy for this since I don’t really see any reactions to this on TH-cam.
This is the movie that made me fall in love with the Audi
The figure skater is “Katerina Witt” 2-time gold medal winner! I saw her first time in 1994 Winter Olympics (her last before retiring) and was excited to see her in this movie 4 years later!!!
Seeing Matthew's head bob as Jean Reno walks into the movie... I know, bro. I know.
Director John Frankenheimer got his start doing live TV shows in the 50's. Some of his movies you should check out - "The Manchurian Candidate", "Seven Days in May", "Seconds", "The Train", "Grand Prix", "The French Connection II", "Black Sunday".
All great movies! 7 Days in May is my favorite!!
Seven Days in May is excellent
Yeah I kinda get the feeling either this is what the first Mission Impossible should have been or that JF should've directed the first one.
16:17 was that Cutting Edge reference :D
My favorite line is " Everybody's your brother till the rent is due."
Never tired of seeing this film and it was a good bonus seeing Emily trying to understand the infinite betrayals and all, I too was very confused the first time I've seen this gem of a movie. I always wanted a sequel but a the same time its very special that it neve did 😊
#title So glad somebody finally reacted to this - nice one guys. Three suggestions for you:
Flashback (1990)
No Way Out (1987)
A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)
Don't let the age of the last one put you off: it's a quality piece of work that totally stands up today.
I love how this movie starts out like, "Hi, I'm a John LeCarre-type 'thinking person's' spy movie" and then says, "nope I'm full of gunplay, explosions and car chases--psyche!"
The other great Frankenheimer film is the original (60s) version of The Manchurian Candidate, featuring a wonderful performance by Angela Lansbury.
I've had a soft spot in my heart for Michel Lonsdale ever since he played Claude Lebel, a police detective on the trail of an assassin in The Day of the Jackal. I was delighted to see him pop up here as Vincent's friend/mentor. The look he gives when DeNiro says, "I would never hurt a friend" lets us know that wasn't his concern at all. Quite the contrary.
Btw, Day of the Jackal is worth seeking out. It's based on a bestselling thriller that's tremendously suspenseful. And the movie... isn't. But it's still engrossing because it's two "how to" manuals in one: how to plan the assassination of a high-profile target and how to search for a man about whom you have no information at all--but what you DO have is the entire French police apparatus at your disposal. The result is a great cat and mouse game.
Enjoy! Thanks for the reaction!
Sat through this movie twice in Theatre back to back. So good, so nuanced. Caught my friends and I by surprise as we had not heard of this movie when we picked it (Robert De Niro is always a win).
one of my favourite movies, from a favourite genre....European set Espionage thrillers, this is such an old style movie, even then, a throwback and i love it
when Sean Bean, who is cool in everything, isn't even in the top 4 of cool characters, you have an amazing cast
I find it hard to believe that a seasoned CIA operative would Not know what Sepuku is! For a long time I thought this was John Frankenheimer's last movie but a check on IMDB cleared that for me. The last one of his that I had seen was Reindeer Games (2000) but apparently he directed a TV movie called "Path to War" in 2002 and a segment of a short film called "The Hire" starring Clive Owen in a compilation of short films in 2003!
My hats off to the Patreon member who chose this awesome but often overlooked film, amazing cast and for my money it has some of the best high speed car scenes, it's not over the top, all practical and very realistic, which I have to give extra points for, great choice!
Now we absolutely, have to see Emily's reaction to The Cutting Edge!!!
You are most welcome. ;)
OH $***T! you guys reviewed this movie??!! This is one of my all time favorites! 😀.... Watching it now!
- Ok, just finished watching the video. ... Very good review! 😊 One of my favorites. Keep it up you two. 👍
11:58 Léon: The Professional (1994)
Atomic Blonde is another good movie in this vein. Mid-budget, well-written, good actors, intended for adults, practical effects, spy movie.
Well, Leon is a Professional
Also, this is one of my favorite movies. It's so low-key and keeps you absolutely mesmerized the whole way through
He does the tippy taps! 1:10
You two are relationship goals. I really like your videos and Ronin is one of my favourite movies ever. Thank you for sharing your reaction! :)
OMG! Stellar Skateboard!! You made a reference to the the thing that was also made by the other thing! 🤣 seriously though, I love it when one of my favorite YT channels references my favorite podcast. Worlds colliding!! 😊
De mi top 10 de mejores películas actores de lujo con un guión inigualable 😊 gracias por reaccionar ❤
27:43 Seeing 'Next Up: F/X' in the bottom corner got me really excited... Could it be true ?
Nice Cutting Edge call out! Maybe we'll see it on here someday :)
Toe pick! Ha ha
In 98 I went to France and while I was there I saw the Gypsy King’s perform in the exact coliseum from the scene after the car chase in the middle of the film and then 3 months later this movie came out
Toe Pick!
The Cutting Edge. Emily would like that movie I bet.
"toepick!"
Good lord I can't think of a movie that Emily would hate more than that.
FYI, an alternate ending on disc shows what happened to Dierdre... A must see Frankenheimer movie would be "The Manchurian Candidate."
OK. "Stellar Skateboard" is Stellan Skarsgårds new name in my book now. 😁
The film shows how confusing and terrifying driving fast through an uncontrolled environment (ie not a dedicated secured track) is. You drive round a corner and then have to react instantly to what is there - you can't plan out your turns ahead, or predict some idiot changing lanes. The stunt drivers are outstanding and the behind-the-scenes stuff is fascinating.
"That's another line that I love." Well, of course, the movie is full of them because it was written by David Mamet. I also suggest two more of his criminally overlooked films, "Spartan" with Val Kilmer and "Heist" with Gene Hackman. Not a Frankenheimer film, but William Friedkin's 'To Live and Die in L.A." makes a great companion movie to this one. Another one of the best car chase scenes on film.
'toepick!' lol i see what you did there - can't wait to see you do the 'cutting edge'
John Frankenheimer directed a 1966 movie GRAND PRIX about Formula One staring James Garner ,the racing scenes are epic, a combination of actual races in the 1966 season where they had a camera car on track during races,and actors driving modified F2 cars the camera car they used was a FORD GT, the opening 30 mins of the movie is the race around Monaco to me it's better than anything in FORD VS FERRARI , or Ron Howards movie RUSH, i think it's on youtube
Yes, Frankenheimer pioneered the science of fixing film cameras to vehicles while working on Grand Prix. When it had been tried before the aim had been to keep the cameras insulated from the vibrations so that the picture would be steady. Frankenheimer realised that having the shaky image made it more exciting.
Very entertaining reaction folks. John Frankenheimer is known for his love of cars and car chases. All realistic and practical. Check out The French Connection II. A sequel as good as the original.
11:59 comment,, especially tbe driver- The Professional.-Ernie Moore Jr.
My next door neighbour is in this movie, and plays his role really well. His name is Stellan, and he's a really cool guy. In this movie he plays this sleazy bloke perfectly
One of the rare films where Sean Bean doesn't die! If you like Natasha McElhone, see the raunchy comedy show Californication (main star is David Duchovny).
The one movie where Sean Bean’s character realises who he’s being played by and nopes out before dying 😂
The ice skater was 2 time Olympic GOLD medalist Katarina Witt
Pretty much my favorite espionage movie. So much great use of body language in this movie.
DeNiro is excellent in this, and Frankenheimer has never been better from an action perspective. I've always been a bit baffled why this wasn't bigger. My suspicion is that as DeNiro had been lazily cashing-in with a few bad movies in the run-up to this one that action fans stayed away. A shame, because DeNiro is tremendous and has a great chemistry with Reno. Lots of 'Hey it's that guy!' fun too, and Pryce always makes a good baddy. It's clear that the makers of Bourne were taking detailed notes, watching this.
Oh my fucking god, I love you guys for this! A massively underrated action thriller.
24:15 an epic stare down is taking place
It is overlooked by too many people, this one. I am glad you watched it, not just because it's great, but because hopefully the video stays up without strikes and that signals to other reactors that they can monetize a reaction too.
Just after fifteen minutes, if you look at the cat, the body language is "-Could someone scratch me now. PLEASE"
This is one of the best movies ever. Action, acting, one-liners, cinematography, younameit.jpg
Oh I'm glad you've reacted to this.
Ronin has my favourite car chase scenes of any film.
Remy Julienne was a master choregrapher.
Remy Julienne wasn't involved in "Ronin" 🙂 The coordinator for the car stunts was Jean-Claude Lagniez, a former Rally driver and longtime collaborator of Remy Julienne. Stunt drivers were, amongst others, former Formula 1-driver Jean-Pierre Jarier who mainly doubled De Niro, sports car racing drivers Michel Neugarten (doubling for Natacha McElhone and flipping the BMW) and Guy Chasseuil and also guys from Remy Julienne's stable like Gilbert Bataille (famous for driving the tanker truck sideways in James Bond 007 - Licence to Kill).
Best movie! Love how the cat is just lampin’ 😂
21:42- He may not be a Dumbledore, to me, apart from this film, he's either a Drax (Moonraker) or a Reinhardt (The Black Hole...)
Great movie , great direction by John Frankenheimer .
RIP. John Frankenheimer .
Toe pick. Love it!
Other great Frankenheimer films are Black Sunday, the original The Manchurian Candidate, 52 Pick-Up, and Seconds. Oh, and 1979’s Prophecy, while not great, is quite fun.
3 more to watch from John Frankenheimer: The Manchurian Candidate (1962 version), The Train, Seconds.
One thing I really, really liked was the soundtrack. The drums added so much to the feeling of tension.
You guys have got to watch the 1980 comedy "Midnight Madness", which was actually the big screen debut for an extremely young Michael J. Fox.
Emily laughing in morse code 10:12 😂
A perfect follow up to this would be a great heist movie also starring Robert de Niro and the line "Okay Bye Bye".
Have you guys done The Boondock Saints yet? It’s a great one for St Patrick’s day :)
Great movie and like you said Mathew, HUGE cast. Now you need to satisfy Emily's samurai move need with 47 Ronin. I think she'd like that one.
I kind of want them to watch 'Brazil' now, because of Emily reacting to an actor here.
Great, great movie.
I was surprised that I didn't see in the comments (as far as I scrolled) that anyone mentioned the figure skater was played by Katarina Witt, two-time Olympic gold medalist for Germany.
To see something in which Shaun doesn,t die, watch # Sharpe# Napoleonic war. Series movie length episodes. Emily will love it😆
Another suggested European thriller with a similar feel is Fred Zinnemann's 1973 The Day of the Jackal, actor Michael Lonsdale appears in both.
I distinctly remember understanding absolutely nothing about this movie when it came out. I had no idea what the plot was and left the theater totally confused.
If you want an overlooked classic where everyone is double crossing everyone, check out "The Way Of The Gun" from 2000.
Such an underrated movie. I think the reason not a lot of people watched it is because it came out a week after Rush Hour and went under people's radar.
This Was Always One Of My Favourite Movies , With Such A Great Cast .
Oh, I don't know if you noticed, but watch this video from the start, and keep an eye on Pippin. All the way through Emily's intro, he was makin' biscuits, then shortly after he's got a paw on Emily's shoulder. It's almost like he's supercharging a move, then applying it. What move? That's for your imagination......and a writing prompt, for the aspiring writers among the comments.
This movie has one of the best gunfight, car chase scenes ever.
Fantastic movie , cast, & story. Reminds me of many places I've been as well.