Killer Elite (2011)

Killer Elite Is a 2011 action thriller film starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. The film is based on the 1991 novel The Feather Men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes and is directed by Gary McKendry.

Plot

In 1980, mercenaries Danny Bryce, Hunter, Davies and Meier are in Mexico to assassinate a man. Danny is shot when he becomes distracted after realising he has killed the man in front of the target’s young child. Affected by this, Danny retires and returns to his native Australia. The following year, Danny is summoned to Oman to meet a handler known as The Agent. He learns that Hunter failed a $6 million job. If Danny does not complete Hunter’s mission, Hunter will be executed. Sheikh Amr, a Sheikh and deposed king of a small region of Oman, wants

Danny to kill three former SAS troopers—Steven Harris, Warwick Cregg, and Simon McCann —for killing his three eldest sons during the Dhofar Rebellion. Danny must videotape their confessions and make their deaths look like accidents, all before the terminally ill sheikh dies. This will allow the sheikh’s fourth son, Bakhait, to regain control of his father’s desert region. Danny approaches Davies and Meier and entitling them to help in exchange for 3 millions each for two of them while Danny will not receive anything since he just wants to free Hunter.

Jason Statham Is an Action Icon

Cast:

Jason Statham as Danny Bryce
Clive Owen as Spike Logan
Yvonne Strahovski as Anne Frazier
Robert De Niro as Hunter
Lachy Hulme as Steven Harris
Dominic Purcell as Davies
Aden Young as Meier
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as The Agent
Ben Mendelsohn as Martin
Grant Bowler as Warwick Cregg
Matt Nable as Pennock
Michael Dorman as Jake
Daniel Roberts as Simon McCann
Firass Dirani as Bakhait
Nick Tate as Commander B