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- The Gunman is a 2015 action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson, Pete Travis and Sean Penn, based on the novel The Prone Gunman (French title: La position du tireur couché) by Jean-Patrick Manchette.
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The Gunman is a 2015 action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson, Pete Travis and Sean Penn, based on the novel The Prone Gunman (French title: La position du tireur couché) by Jean-Patrick Manchette.
Mar 20, 2015 · The Gunman: Directed by Pierre Morel. With Sean Penn, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone. A sniper on a mercenary assassination team kills the minister of mines of the Congo.
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- Action, Crime, Mystery
- Pierre Morel
- 2015-03-20
Mar 18, 2015 · What’s ironic about The Gunman is that its source novel, by Jean-Patrick Manchette, published in America as The Prone Gunman in 2002, is everything this movie isn’t—stylish, original, uncompromising, suffused with vital black comedy, and political not just on the surface, but at its core. Manchette died young, at 53, in 1995, but he left ...
Mar 20, 2015 · Based on the 1981 pulp novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette with the admittedly awesome title of "The Prone Gunman," "The Gunman" is, at least for the first two-thirds, rudimentary beyond belief.
Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) is a former special forces soldier who, in his 50s, has become a black-ops mercenary. He is part of a team deployed by a corporation in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, under the cover of providing security to local projects.
Based on the novel The Prone Gunman, by Jean-Patrick Manchette, 'The Gunman' is a decent action-thriller, that's engaging, but only in parts. While the action has sharpness to it, the thriller aspect doesn't entirely work.
In theaters March 20, 2015. The Gunman, the new action thriller from Pierre Morel, the director of Taken, stars Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone and Mark Rylance.
