Underplayed Gems

The Gunman (2015)

The Gunman poster
Directed by
Pierre Morel
Genre
action film, crime film, thriller film
Country
United Kingdom, France, United States, Spain
Runtime
1h 57m
Rated
R
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 1,047 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A former mercenary lives quietly until hit squads from his past come to kill him and his loved ones. He must fight to survive and uncover who wants him dead.

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What happens

The Gunman is a 2015 action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel, based on the novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette. Sean Penn stars as a mercenary who assassinates the mining minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006 on orders from multinational mining companies. Eight years after Terrier has retired from mercenary work, he and the people close to him become the targets of hit squads sent by a powerful multinational security firm, and he must fight to stay alive. The cast includes Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Mark Rylance, Jasmine Trinca, and Ray Winstone. The Gunman was released on March 20, 2015, by Open Road Films. It was a box office bomb, grossing $24 million against a $40 million budget and receiving a poor critical reception. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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