Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Ronin
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305263241
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305263248
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: MGMD907439D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 23, 1999
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: September 25, 1998

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In this gritty international action caper a group of covert operatives led by robert de niro must recover a top-secret briefcase that every underworld group will stop at nothing to get. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Robert De Niro Natascha Mcelhone Run time: 121 minutes Rating: R Director: John Frankenheimer

Amazon.com essential video:
Robert De Niro stars as an American intelligence operative adrift in irrelevance since the end of the Cold War--much like a masterless samurai, a.k.a. "ronin." With his services for sale, he joins a renegade, international team of fellow covert warriors with nothing but time on their hands. Their mission, as defined by the woman who hires them (Natascha McElhone), is to get hold of a particular suitcase that is equally coveted by the Russian mafia and Irish terrorists. As the scheme gets underway, De Niro's lone wolf strikes up a rare friendship with his French counterpart (Jean Reno), gets into a more-or-less romantic frame of mind with McElhone, and asserts his experience on the planning and execution of the job--going so far as to publicly humiliate one team member (Sean Bean) who is clearly out of his league. The story is largely unremarkable--there's an obligatory twist midway through that changes the nature of the team's business--but legendary filmmaker John Frankenheimer (Seconds, The Manchurian Candidate) leaps at the material, bringing to it an honest tension and seasoned, breathtaking skill with precision-action direction. The centerpiece of the movie is an honest-to-God car chase that is the real thing: not the how-can-we-top-the-last-stunt cartoon nonsense of Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon), but a pulse-quickening, kinetic dance of superb montage and timing. In a sense, Ronin is almost Frankenheimer's self-quoting version of a John Frankenheimer film. There isn't anything here he hasn't done before, but it's sure great to see it all again. --Tom Keogh




Rating: - Wait for February 24, 2009
DO NOT BUY THIS EDITION OF RONIN. Just wait a few more weeks for February 24, 2009, the official U.S. blu-ray version of this movie is going to be release. I do not know why Amazon has not updated their website to pre-order this movie considering that you can do so online with Best Buy, Circuit City, and Frys. So just wait, do not buy this one, plus the new and official U.S. version is about half the price of what Amazon is currently selling this edition at. Again, just wait for February 24, ... Read More

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Rating: - There are Six Good Reasons to Experience Ronin.
Written by David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) (credited in the film as "Richard Weisz") and directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), Ronin stars Robert De Niro and Jean Reno as two of five mercenaries hired an IRA liason named Deirdre (Natascha McElhone) to intercept a mysterious, heavily-guarded briefcase before it falls into the hands of Russian mobsters. The film's title is derived from the Japanese word, "rônin" ("drifting person"), a samurai without a master, who is motivated ... Read More

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Rating: - FROM JAPAN/ japan verson
this is here because of amazon japan do not buy just wait it out. if you are into hong kong movies then wait for a brittish relese of mad detective, as most hong kong blurays are watermarked. most of the time blurays of american films not relesed here but someweres els are of low quality nuliffing the gold brick price because in the end its just a pice of plastic with code on it. all good things come to those who wait for r1

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Rating: - If this is the Japanese release, tread carefully.
Judging from the specs (Japanese/English subs and language) and the cover art (English text but no BBFC rating stamp the way a UK release would have), it looks like this might be the Japanese BD release of 'Ronin,' which has been out for a little while now. I bought it myself for about the same price as this, and I've got to tell you that you may not find it worth it. It's one of Fox's earlier MPEG-2 transfers and looks like most Fox movies of that vintage--slightly gray, slightly fuzzy. It's still ... Read More

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Rating: - Foreign Copy from UK
The price on this is high because it is, in fact, an imported release from the UK.

For those who are interested, it is region free and WILL play on US Blu-ray players.

MGM has yet to give a date on when this will be released in the US, but apparently that date is pending.

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