The Gunman (2015) [R]
Featuring:
Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca
Written by:
Jean-Patrick Manchette
Don MacPherson
Pete Travis
Directed by:
Pierre Morel
Release Date:
February 16, 2015
Original Title:
The Gunman
Alternate Titles:
A cél
Gunman: El objetivo
Le tireur
O Franco Atirador
The Gunman
Ганмен
Ґанмен
卧底枪手
Genres:
Action | Crime | Drama
Production Companies:
Anton Capital Entertainment
Canal+
ICEC
Nostromo Pictures
Prone Gunman
Prone Gunman A.I.E.
Silver Pictures
StudioCanal
TF1 Films Production
Production Countries:
France | Spain | United Kingdom | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
AR: 16 BR: 16 CA: 14A DE: 16 FR: 12 GB: 15 GR: 15 HU: 16 IE: 15 IT: T JP: PG12 LT: N-16 NL: 16 NO: 15 NZ: 16 RU: 18+ SE: 15 US: R
Runtime: 115
Armed with the truth.
Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.
A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, working for an unknown client, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's (Sean Penn'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.
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