The Gunman Page #6

Synopsis: A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, working for an unknown client, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's (Sean Penn's) successful kill shot forces him to go into hiding to protect himself and the members of the team from retribution. This includes abruptly abandoning his girlfriend who has no idea what is going on. The assassination, paid for by a foreign mining company, triggers wide spread chaos and death in an already inflamed Congo. Terrier returns to the Congo years later working for an NGO, but eventually finds himself to be the target of a paid hit squad somehow connected to the ministers assassination. This leads to immediate deaths and the endangerment of the people working around him, and forces him back into hiding. In trying to discover who has put a price on his head, he begins to reconnect to the members of his old assassination team, including his old girlfriend. Always aware there is no path to redemption for his crimes, he is also periodically inc
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Pierre Morel
Production: Open Road Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
39
Rotten Tomatoes:
17%
R
Year:
2015
115 min
$7,926,657
Website
500 Views


your kill ratio's pretty f***ing high.

Terry, just you and me,

how do we fix this?

Fix this?

Ruth.

All right, let's move.

They can't be very far.

We'll go all the way around the aquarium.

You take the main entrance.

Let's go. Go!

I'm wondering what exactly

it is you wanna fix, Jim.

I did everything I could

to clean up after Calvary.

Personally, I don't think the pieces

can be put together,

legally, I mean, but it's not my call.

Interpol?

Congressional hearings? The subpoena?

That's a bit cumbersome, isn't it?

But with Reed and Bryson in the ground,

I can see the company's perspective.

You're the last objective.

You're the last real threat on the table.

Yeah, lucky me.

You were the team leader, Terry.

Why just Bryson, Reed, and me?

I don't know.

I think the company

values my consistency.

You do play the numbers.

Yeah. Let me ask you...

what does humanity pay

a well-intentioned well digger these days?

Or is that a penance, Saint Jim?

Do you ever think about...

Do you ever reflect on what we do?

You're still living the dream, Jim?

War and peace.

F***ing joke.

Did you think you'd find peace

being peaceful, Jim?

You crack me up.

There's war and there's purpose.

Expand territory,

access vital resources.

Don't slip, now.

You and me, we're war fighters, mate.

We've served a grander purpose, haven't we?

War fighters execute the will

of faceless power, the unknown.

You don't look well, Jim.

You don't wanna do this sh*t anymore?

You don't have to stay in this fight.

At a certain point,

you've gotta stop the pain,

die like a soldier,

make the ultimate sacrifice.

I can see you're there.

I see it in your eyes.

I've seen it before.

You want out.

What you got there, Jim?

Those are the tail numbers.

I have the manifest to every plane,

every weapon we flew in,

every asset we flew out.

I also kept things on Project Calvary.

So what you gonna do with this?

Give it to a newspaper, put it online,

or some wazoo sh*t like that?

You could have given this

to those agents.

You could have told them everything,

but you didn't do that. Why?

Because it would destroy...

'Cause it would destroy you,

and then you wouldn't be able

to ride off into the night

with the damaged goods.

The damaged goods, no? No?

You... Oh, dear.

I'm sorry to tell you this.

You really don't know what happened

to your little lady friend

when the raids came in

after you left her in the DRC.

Wild dogs, Jim. Wild dogs.

F***!

You f***er!

I really struggled with this, mate.

I had no choice.

I've got a job to do.

It's just part of the job.

You kill me,

the job will still get done.

Then we've got nothing left

to talk about.

- You okay?

- Just f***ing get him!

Jim Terrier. I was expecting your call.

Have a word with your friend, Stanley.

Come on, mate. Spit it out.

We've been going at him

for a while here, Jim.

Man hasn't said a word, not a thing.

That's loyalty for you.

For a fellow who gets paid

to kill people, he's a stand-up guy.

You have a go with him, Jim.

Stan.

Stanley.

Do something for me, Jim.

Kill this bastard.

Now I don't think that's a very nice

thing to say, Stanley.

By the way, that little notebook

that you left behind in Gibraltar,

don't worry about that,

I picked that up for you.

You know what?

That's how we found this place.

How nice of you to have

written down the address.

You're way more f***ed up

than I thought, Jim.

I mean, there's nothing

left of you, is there?

Who do you wanna talk to next?

You wanna talk to your girlfriend?

Here she is.

Come on, Annie.

Annie, can you hear me?

Annie, it's me.

Annie...

Annie. Talk to me, Annie. Are you okay?

Annie?

You motherf***er. You motherf***er.

Here it is, Jim.

You come back here, I'll give you Annie.

You know where we are,

or did you forget that, too?

You're gonna meet me out

in a public place, right out in the open.

- Why would I do that, Jim?

- Why would you do that?

Take a look at your phone. I'm gonna

send you a little something, okay?

...advantage. Your drop cards are adjusted

to Kinshasa density altitude, right?

Felix will give the green light

when he confirms the target is inbound.

Felix will also designate

which of you shooters engages.

Don't let the target escape the X.

Okay, so here's what's gonna happen.

You want that video file,

you want my notebooks,

you're gonna meet me in a public place,

and you're gonna bring her.

If you don't,

I'm gonna throw it out in the street

where everyone in the world can see it.

Do you understand? I don't give a f***

how wazoo that sounds.

Where at?

This is Barnes.

If you're still interested

in building a tree house,

I could use another hammer.

Where are you?

- Anything?

- Nada.

- I hope you're here.

- What did you shoot her up with?

Well, she's tired. It's a very hot day.

I have what you want.

- He can see us.

- Bring it here, the girl walks.

No, send her out now, alone,

and then I'll give you what you want.

We have a seat here for you, Jim.

We're not gonna do anything in public.

I will. Last chance. Send her out.

Jim...

I got him. Just opposite from here.

He's walking out.

Don't lose him.

Heading downstairs.

Should intercept him in the gallery.

- Can you see him?

- Affirmative.

Report. Where are you?

I'm right behind him.

Heading towards the stalls.

Copy that. I'll meet you there.

He's heading to the corral.

- Target's in the corral. Over.

- Stay with the target. Shoot him on sight.

Man down. In pursuit of target.

Reiniger, Reiniger. Where are you?

Sh*t!

You can't go this way.

Annie.

- Jim!

- Annie.

Come on. Grab my hand.

Don't move!

Don't move, Annie.

Jim.

Give me the documents, Jim.

The documents, or I kill her.

Jim?

- Annie.

- Jim.

Use the rope.

- Here.

- Jim.

Hurry, Annie.

Come on. Come on.

Jim.

Are you okay?

Police! Don't move! Don't move!

Let me go! No!

Okay. Could you just

pat my eyes or something?

Thank you.

Thank you. Thanks.

Where's Annie?

Do we need a lawyer,

or should I start talking?

You have to assure me

that nothing will happen to her.

She had nothing to do with any of it.

Jim, look, it's not her

you should worry about.

We know she wasn't involved.

She'll be okay.

You, that's another story.

We understand you have some information,

material that we need.

You wanna tell us what it is?

I have names, dates, video files.

I recorded virtually everything

from the beginning of the operation.

I'll cooperate.

I'll explain everything we did.

You're making the right decision, Jim.

No doubt it's gonna help you in court,

but after what you've done,

you're gonna serve time.

It's gonna be tough, Jim.

The chairman of an international

security company

and the CEO of one of the world's

largest mining corporations

have been arrested on suspicion

of involvement in the assassination

of Congo's Minister of Mining

eight years ago.

The arrests, triggered by new evidence

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Don Macpherson

Don Macpherson is a Canadian journalist. He is the Quebec affairs columnist for the Montreal Gazette. He has covered Quebec political affairs since 1985. Macpherson, who is of Scottish origin, was raised in the Montreal neighbourhood of Rosemont. more…

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