TRC: Ep. 93 Ronin

The Recasting Couch Movie Podcast

Ronin. Ronin, Ronin, Ronin… How we had such high expectations for rewatching this car chase/heist movie. This movie nowhere near achieves the sum of its parts. The parts are impressive. A lot of people who are great in a lot of things. Many we’ve even fawned over before, but not this time. There is zero chemistry between anyone in this movie except for Robert DeNiro and the always fun Jean Reno. There is a forced romance angle with Bobby D and Natascha McElhone who has a quiet disconnect the entire movie. Sean Bean is okay, I guess, although he isn’t given a ton to work with. His character was really poorly conceptualized, or perhaps not developed enough to make his storyline make any sense at all. Stellan Skarsgård mails it in, Jonathan Pryce is woefully miscast as an IRA terrorist, although Michael Lonsdale chews some nice scenery as Jean Pierre, it’s just too little too late at that point.. The whole thing just didn’t work, and it’s too bad. In addition to the forced romance angle, the whole Ronin story didn’t even really apply to the movie itself, and even the car chase scenes ,that it’s known for, fell flat. So, naturally Mike and I do what we always do when faced with a movie that we really didn’t like all that much. We roast the hell out of it. Lots of laughs in this episode, so make sure you check it out.

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