Incredibly, this story is claimed to be based on fact. In a nutshell,
Robert De Niro plays Hunter, the mentor of Danny (Jason Statham). Both were skilled professional killers. Danny has had one of those epiphanies where a man of action decides the killing must stop and retires until Hunter is kidnapped by the oil sheik. The sheik wants revenge against the killers of his sons, he knows Danny is the best in the world, and he correctly calculates that only the need to save his beloved teacher would lure him back into action.
The sons, it turns out, were murdered by four SAS men. Oh my goodness. In comes Clive Owens as their hired assassin, and the games begin.
Jason Statham is once again a hard-boiled man carved from solid macho. Clive Owen, who by disposition seems more like a good guy, but is also sufficiently cold-blooded. De Niro is under used here, and all in all, it was about 30 minutes too long, grinding to an anticlimactic stop.
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