Movie Reviews continued: Ronin

Even though Matrix Reloaded is getting the hype for the most insane car chase ever, it's interesting to see where the influence comes from - surely there is a 'pioneer' or a 'revolutionary' in every aspect of cinema, and for car chases, it's Ronin. Hands down. No movie before it or after it ever captured the finesse of an Audi S8 and a BMW M5 speeding down Parisian highways on the opposite lane, with the camera zoom on the shifts and drifts. Rekhanize!

Also, I always thought that scene where Deniro performs surgery on himself without drugs is just another scene to exemplify his own self-badassness, but I figure now that it's actually a Japanese Samurai reference to the Ronin who disembowled themselves in an honorable form of suicide by plunging the sword into the exact same spot Deniro plunges the surgery-scalpel. And he's a badass.

Jean Reno will never be able to rid himself of the type-cast he has molded - forever an assassin.

What a badass movie.