Ronin Critic Reviews

It's a welcome throwback to the days when the world didn't have to end or tanker trucks explode to get an action audience's attention.Read the full review

Ronin can be watched as appreciatively for its hard-boiled performances as for its visceral excitement.Read the full review

Ronin manages to remain focused on the plot and the characters, even while staging increasingly complicated pyrotechnic set pieces and offering its share of white-knuckle moments.Read the full review

Ronin represents an exhilarating return to form for Frankenheimer.Read the full review

A pleasurable throwback to the sort of gritty, low-tech international thriller that was a staple of the 1960s. Read the full review

I enjoyed the film on two levels: for its skill and its silliness.Read the full review

Here's a strangely flawed and strangely satisfying movie. Read the full review

It's not just the crack stunt driving that makes Ronin such a welcome throwback; it's also the existential hardness of this thriller's motley band of mercenaries.Read the full review

Unlike the ronin, the heroes of a Japanese legend, these guys are still searching for a story. Read the full review