a5c7b9f00b A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, working for an unknown client, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier&#39;s (Sean Penn&#39;s) successful kill shot forces him to go into hiding to protect himself and the members of the team from retribution. This includes abruptly abandoning his girlfriend who has no idea what is going on. The assassination, paid for by a foreign mining company, triggers wide spread chaos and death in an already inflamed Congo. Terrier returns to the Congo years later working for an NGO, but eventually finds himself to be the target of a paid hit squad somehow connected to the ministers assassination. This leads to immediate deaths and the endangerment of the people working around him, and forces him back into hiding. In trying to discover who has put a price on his head, he begins to reconnect to the members of his old assassination team, including his old girlfriend. Always aware there is no path to redemption for his crimes, he is also periodically incapacitated by a type of accumulated and evolving physical brain damage caused by the hard knocks of his occupation. Unexpectedly, given the time that has elapsed, his reconnection to his old assassination team exposes additional intrigues with immediate deadly consequences. All of his years spent in hiding, have merely delayed the twisted end game that now enfolds. A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier&#39;s successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself. The Gunman<br/><br/>Occupations involving guns can be very dangerous if the workers ever go on strike.<br/><br/>Fortunately, the armed employee in this thriller isn&#39;t likely to picket any time soon.<br/><br/>Returning to the Congo years after he assassinated a high-ranking official and went into hiding, former mercenary sniper Terrier (Sean Penn) now finds himself in the crosshairs of similar soldiers of fortune.<br/><br/>To find out who leaked his identity, Terrier must contact everyone involved in the original hit, including his girlfriend at the time (Jasmine Trinca).<br/><br/>Also plaguing Terrier is news that his job has left him with numerous health issues.<br/><br/>Treading familiar territory with heavy footsteps, this middle-aged merc tale has loads of action but little storyline beyond its boilerplate plot points.<br/><br/>Even the star-crossed romance feels passionless and pointless amid the barrage of endless bullets and fisticuffs.<br/><br/>Statistically, most hit men don&#39;t make it out of their retirement parties alive. <br/><br/>Yellow Light<br/><br/>vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca Hit man Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) assassinates the Congo&#39;s Minister of Mines, leaves the country for 8-years, comes back to dig wells for the people and then he&#39;s targeted. Now he has to find out who is after him. Oh, and he suffers from PTSD. Let the games begin. <br/><br/>We normally don&#39;t see Sean Penn in this kind of action hero role. Maybe that is because Matt Damon hasn&#39;t done a Jason Bourne movie in a great while and others have to take up the slack. So the question is who will be the next Jason Bourne? HA !<br/><br/>What we have is a pretty good suspenseful thriller. Here&#39;s the thing: we are not sure if Jim Terrier will make it all the wayhe gets banged up often. Yes, we are cringing and bandaging ourselves from time to time. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. The director gave us the suspense and tension all the way through, and we are not sure who Jim Terrier can trust of those who used to work with him back in the day. And his PTSD symptoms crop up at inopportune times (isn&#39;t that always the case?) and don&#39;t make things easy for him (indeed). <br/><br/>Notables: Javier BardemFelix; Ray WinstoneStanley; Mark RylanceCox; and Idris ElbaBarnes. And then there is Jasmine TrincaAnnie, the love Jim Terrier left behind after the shooting of the Minister of Mines. She is nothing but beautiful (you falling in love again?) and she can act. <br/><br/>We do see some very good landscapes in London, the Congo and in Spain that also gave us a bullfight arena. No CGIthe fights were all real natural stunts and very cringe worthy (Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.) (7/10)<br/><br/>Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes, at times. Ripe, borderline hammy turns from Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Idris Elba and Mark Rylance add some spice.
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