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Killer Elite (15)

Action, Thriller

When his mentor is taken captive, a retired member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service is forced into action. His mission: kill three assassins dispatched by their cunning leader.

More information on this production is available at www.killerelite.com.

The critical consensus

Today’s action movie fan is accustomed to a sophisticated cocktail of influences. Killer Elite is more like a warm pint of bitter from a surly pub landlord. Robust, does the job, but unrefined.

***(*)(*)Ellen E Jones, Total Film, 15/09/2011

Statham loyalists may lap it up but it’s difficult to care about most of what unfolds.

**(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 22/09/2011

A tasty trio, but there's something vanilla about this one-last-job saga.

**(*)(*)(*)Catherine Shoard, The Guardian, 22/09/2011

It's not as funny as Statham's Crank nor as intelligent as Blitz, but comes with enough geezahs! shootahs! and mouthy nonces! to make the forthcoming Sweeney remake look positively redundant.

**(*)(*)(*)Daily Record, 23/09/2011

Don't be taken in by this based-on-a-true-story imprimatur: it is as phony, derivative and poorly scripted as any thriller this year.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 23/09/2011

Less killer, more filler.

**(*)(*)(*)Mike McCahill, The Scotsman, 24/09/2011

The surface is glossy, the body count high, and the events opaque and often risible.

Philip French, The Observer, 25/09/2011

Offers the surreal sight of Jason Statham sharing a quiet dialogue scene with Robert De Niro. Sadly, this isn't a sign that Statham has ascended to the ranks of cinema's greatest actors, but that De Niro has sunk so low that he'll now turn up for the tawdriest of thrillers.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 25/09/2011

A few good stunts, some tolerable brooding and one nice, if silly desert chase. But not essential.

**(*)(*)(*)Kim Newman, Empire Online, 26/09/2011

Long, muddled, misguided.

**(*)(*)(*)Nick Hasted, Little White Lies, 22/09/2011

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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