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Killer Elite or Elite killer In Quebec is an American-Australian action film directed by Gary McKendry, released in 2011.

1980. Danny Bryce is a mercenary working with his team made up of his mentor, Hunter, and two partners, Davies and Meier. The group goes to Mexico to assassinate a man, but the mission takes another turn when Danny killed the target in front of the latter’s son and was injured during the follow -up shooting. He manages to flee with Hunter and the rest of the team but, assigned by the outcome of the mission, he decides to retire.

A year later, Danny, who lives in Australia, received an envelope showing a photo of Hunter Prisoner and a plane ticket for Oman. On the spot, he meets the “agent”, an organizer of missions for assassins, who reveals to him that Hunter accepted a mission for six million dollars, but did not accomplish it. Subsequently, he met the sheikh Amr, a fallen king of a small region of Oman, who wants him to kill three former SAS soldiers, Steven Harris, Steven Cregg and Simon McCann, who all three of his Four sons during the Dhofar war. Danny must film their confessions and make up the assassinations in accidents and perform these tasks before the death of the sheikh, suffering from a terminal disease, which would allow Bakhait, the fourth son still alive, to regain control of the region . However, if Danny does not accomplish the mission or fails, Hunter will be executed.

Danny contacts Davies and Meier, who agree to help him in exchange on the one hand of money. While Danny and Meier go to Oman in order to execute Harris, Davies questions customers in local bars of the SAS, awakening suspicions, which is reported to the Feathermen, a secret company made up of former agents monitoring their own interests. A chief executor, Spike Logan, is sent to investigate. After filming Harris’s confessions, Danny and Meier take him to the bathroom to kill him with a hammer from the shower tiles, to make believe that he had slipped and hit his head. Harris tries to free himself when his girlfriend arrives in front of the door of his house, but Meier kills him in a hurry during a fight. At the same time, Spike and his team spots the group and put the other targets under protection.

In London, Davies learns that Cregg is preparing for a long night of walking in winter conditions at the Brecon Beacons. While Davies creates a diversion, Danny infiltrates the base, drug Cegg Coffee, causing a state of shock and death by hypothermia during the walk, after he filmed his confessions. The last target, McCann, unstable from an attack, has become a mercenary. The plan is to tamper with a truck to cause a traffic accident that will kill McCann. With the help of another inexperienced member, Jake, Meier kills McCann successfully, but discover that Logan and his henchmen were watching McCann. During a shooting in the docks after a chase with a Logan man, Jake accidentally slaughtered Meier. Danny and Davies decide that the case is over and each separate from their sides. But Davies is spotted by Logan’s men and is hit by a truck, who kills him instantly.

Danny goes to Oman in order to give the last filmed confession, which was rigged. Hunter is released and returns to his family and Danny returns to Australia, where he finds Anne Frazier, an knowledge of his childhood with whom he is in a relationship. But his return is short -lived when the “agent” informs him that another man, Ranulph Fiennes, participated in the murders of the sons of the Sheikh and that he will publish a book relating his experience with the SAS. Danny takes Anne to Paris, supervised by Hunter to protect her, while he leaves in London to carry out the mission, where he meets Bakha who confirms that Harris was not involved in the murders of his brothers. Logan, meanwhile, traces Danny via the “agent” and sends a team to protect Fiennes, but Jake distracted them, allowing Danny to enter the building where the author is. Danny hurts Fiennes, but takes pictures to make her death believe. Logan continues and captures Danny by taking him to an abandoned warehouse, but is interrupted by a mid-6 agent, who reveals to him that the British government is behind the operation because of the precious oil reserves of the sheikh. A fight follows during which the agent of the mid-6 is killed by Spike, Danny, meanwhile, succeeds in fleeing. At the same time, in Paris, Hunter identifies the “agent” and a henchman who follows Anne, who plans to kidnap her against Rançon. Hunter succeeds in mastering them, in particular by pulling in the leg of the “agent”, who wanted a part of the mission money and threatens him if he attacks Danny and Anne again.

Helped by Hunter, Danny goes to Oman to give photos to the sheikh, but is preceded by Logan, who stabs the old man to death while admitting to him that Fiennes is still alive and that the photos are faked. He left Bakha alive, the latter refusing to respect traditions. Bakha gave him the money intended for Danny and Hunter. The former SAS, chased by the men of the sheikh, is spotted by Hunter. Danny and Hunter are continuing, while neutralizing the sheikh minions, and stops it in a desert road. Danny decides to give Logan money, although Hunter takes a game for his expenses and his family, telling him that he will need it to change his life away from London after killing the agent of mid-6 and Having acted against the will of the Feathermen and leaves on the road, saying that they will send him a taxi as soon as they are at the airport to leave Oman. Danny finds Anne in Paris to start a new life.

Source : Film information ^{[ first ]}

• Original and French title: Killer Elite
• Quebec title: Elite killer
• Realization: Gary McKendry
• Sennario: Gary McKndry It Matt Sherring (in) , according to The Feather Men The Ranulph Fiennes
• Décors: Michelle McGahey
• Costumes : Katherine Milne
• Photography: Simon Duggan
• Montage : John Gilbert
• Music: Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek
• Casting : Leigh Pickford
• Artistic direction: Rolland Pike
• Production: Michael Boughen, Steve Chasman, Sigurjon Sighvatsson et Tony Winley
  • Executive production: Peter D. Graves, Christopher Mapp, Matthew Street, David Whealy and Bill Johnston (Executive Co -producer)
• Production companies: Ambience Entertament, Current Entertament, Omnilab Media and Palomar Pictures
• Distribution companies: Open Road Films  (in)
• Budget : 70  millions ^$
• Native country ^{[ 2 ]} : United States and Australia
• Original languages: English, Arabic, French and Spanish
• Format: Color – 35 mm – 2.35: 1 – Son Dolby Digital
• Genre : Action
• Duration: 116 minutes
• Exit dates:
• Prohibited under 12

Legend Dubbing : French version = VF ^{[ 3 ]} And Quebec version = VQ ^{[ 4 ]}

Critiques [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In all criticisms, Killer Elite met a mixed welcome in English -speaking countries, with a score of ⁴⁴ ⁄ ₁₀₀ on the Metacritic site, for 29 criticisms ^{[ 5 ]} and 25% of favorable opinions the Rotten Tomatoes site, for 122 critics and an average of ^4.7 ⁄ _ten ^{[ 6 ]} . In France, the Allociné site attributes an average note of ^2.1 ⁄ ₅ , for 16 comments collected ^{[ 7 ]} .

Box-office [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Killer Elite Meet a commercial failure when it was released in theaters, reporting only 56,383,756 $ of global revenues, including 25,124,966 $ Just in the United States, for a budget of $ 70 million ^{[ 8 ]} . In France, the film also goes unnoticed, since it only brought together 238,066 admissions ^{[ 9 ]} .

Country or region	Box-office	Box-office arrest date	Number of weeks
UNITED STATES Canada	25 124 966 $	November 17, 2011	8
France	238,066 entries	–	–
Global total	56 383 756 $	–	–

The film is taken from the bestseller The Feather Men de Ranulph Fiennes published in 1991 and who hit the headlines in England when it was released. Many controversies then took place, mainly concentrated on the announcement of a story based on real facts. The British Ministry of Defense at the time denounced the presentation of facts which involved the SAS in assassinations perpetrated years after its participation in the Dhofar War.

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