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- 1975
- PG
- United Artists
- 2 h 2 m
- 1975
- PG
- United Artists
- 2 h 2 m
Summary Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
Written By: Marc Norman, Stirling Silliphant, Robert Syd Hopkins
- 1975
- PG
- United Artists
- 2 h 2 m
- 1975
- PG
- United Artists
- 2 h 2 m
The Killer Elite
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Summary Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.
Directed By: Sam Peckinpah
Written By: Marc Norman, Stirling Silliphant, Robert Syd Hopkins
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Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
57
44% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
56% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Peckinpah's poetic, corkscrew vision of the modern world, claustrophobically exciting.
Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite is directed and acted with a certain nice style, but it puts us through so many convolutions of the plot that finally we just don't care.
Peckinpah is never quite as comfortable with the high-rise terrain (including sloppy kung fu) as he is with the dusty rawhide of the West, but it still shows up the slick trigger-edits of new action cinema for the gutless vacuum it has become.
The Killer Elite is possibly Bloody Sam's worst film, and the martial-arts-themed actioner is must-see material only for the director's completists, despite a cast that includes James Caan and Robert Duvall. [17 Jun 2005, p.43]
Lesser Peckinpah, but fascinating nonetheless.
Mr. Peckinpah is mannered and inventive, and these qualities both give the film its strengths and undermine it horrendously. Cleverness, for one thing, gets in the way of comprehensibility.
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Production Company
Exeter Associates,
Persky-Bright Productions,
Arthur Lewis Productions,
Baum/Dantine Productions
Release Date Dec 19, 1975
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating PG
Tagline MEN WANTED. Private company with C.I.A. contract seeks men willing to risk life. Perfect physical condition. Experience with weaponry, incendiaries, Karate/Judo. No loyalties. No dependents. Long career doubtful.
