The Gunman 2015 123movies

Watch: The Gunman 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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 incapacitated by a type of accumulated and evolving physical brain damage caused by the hard knocks of his occupation. Unexpectedly, given the time that has elapsed, his reconnection to his old assassination team exposes additional intrigues with immediate deadly consequences. All of his years spent in hiding, have merely delayed the twisted end game that now enfolds..
Plot: Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country’s minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead — and why. Terrier’s search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.
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Ratings:

	5.8/10 Votes: 41,617
	16% | RottenTomatoes
	39/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 836 Popularity: 14.276 | TMDB

Reviews:

**When an assassin becomes a target!**

It was not bad, but the same old stuff that we’d seen in so many other films. It was actually based on the book and directed by the ‘Taken’ filmmaker. An international project, takes place in three different countries, but opens and ends in Congo. It centres on an assassin who had successfully executed a high-profile job in Africa. But a few years later, after giving up those kind of work, all the sudden it comes back to haunt him when some unknown men comes looking for him. So he decides to find who’s behind it and why.

Even though it is a familiar theme, very much enjoyable. But the problem is the hero remains unhurt and somebody else dies for him which so cliché. The acting was good, and obviously that is Sean Penn in the lead. The action sequences were okay, but the pace of the film was the reason for me to sit on-board for over 100 minutes.

So if you are not expecting a good story and the stunts, it will do okay, particularly for the time pass. Yes, it had a chance to become a better film, but I think it wanted to replicate the book which is a couple of decades old and in the meantime pieces from it was used in the different films, hence this one looked so old. The critics did not like it, but it is much better than they say, as well as not good as some people claim.

_6.5/10_

Sean Penn really should have thought twice before engaging with this derivative and procedural drama. He is sharp-shooter “Terrier” whose accuracy put paid to the Congolese Minister for Mines and sets in train a remarkably lacklustre thriller that sees Interpol and corporate greed now out to get him. Pierre Morel has assembled a surprisingly notable cast here with Javier Bardem probably the best of the bunch as the duplicitous “Felix”; Idris Elba (“Barnes”) appears sparingly and adds little – though not as little as the terrible effort from the completely un-menacing Ray Winstone’s “Stanley” – who ought to have just stuck with looking for waterfalls. The dialogue borders on the puerile and the acting is so ploddingly set-piece that even the shoot-outs and jungle scenarios cannot breathe life into this. I haven’t read Jean-Patrick Manchette’s original novel, but if this adaptation is in any way true to the book, then I won’t be bothering.

A generic but enjoyable action movie
I was pleasantly surprised by this film given the negative reception that it had received.

For the most part, the acting ranges from serviceable to good. Sean Penn falls in the latter, as he embodies the typical action hero role in a believable manner. Jasmine Trinca is okay, though to be fair it’s not like she’s given much to work with from the script. And Javier Bardem has a lot of fun with the role, though at times his acting is more theatrical, and seems like it should be in a different movie. And to those who wish to see the movie solely due to Idris Elba, I have to warn you he’s in the movie for about a total of 10 minutes.

The characters aren’t particularly deep, and they most certainly all fall within clichés (ex. killer who regrets his past and is trying to make amends), however for the most part I found the characters to be entertaining. Annie was the weakest character as the stereotypical love interest, which hurts the movie as it wants the audience to care about the relationship between her and Terrier.

Just as the characters are all that well fleshed out, neither is the story. It’s pretty basic and easy to follow, and the movie goes along the familiar beats of the genre. At first I hated a certain plot point concerning a certain character’s head trauma, but it ended up making for a more interesting movie as it helped make a character less invincible and also has a vital affect on the story.

The action is well done, with it being pretty easy to follow and nice to look at. It’s not too bombastic, and consist more of hand-to-hand combat, surprise attacks, and use of the environment. I found it very refreshing how both the protagonist and antagonist utilized the environment, as it made the action more interesting and exciting to watch. Terrier also isn’t a one man wrecking crew killing 30 guys with no effort; he dispatches some easily, but as the movie goes on, there are times when he meets an equal and is harmed. At the beginning the fights have a bit of shaky cam to them, but that quickly goes away, which ends up working in the movie’s favor.

Despite the very standard characters and plot, I had a fun time with this movie. I’d certainly recommend it for anyone who’s a huge fan of action, as it’s a good way to past the time and have some fun.

Good action thriller
Jim is a security operative in the Congo, but works within a covert group whereby he assassinates a Congolese minister. Eight years later this operation returns to haunt him (or, more accurately, seek to kill him).

Sean Penn plays Jim, in his first outing as an action protagonist at the age of 54 (and he looks to be in extremely good nick for his age). He is joined by some very good support players in a film which is essentially a mystery (who is trying to kill Jim?) and romance (will Jim rekindle romance with Annie, from whom he was forcibly separated after the assassination?) but set in a fairly non-stop action thriller. The action is well-staged and credible and, interestingly, the amounts of blood in what is a pretty violent film appear to be more realistic than usual.

This is quite good.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 40000000
Revenue 13644292
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime
Director Pierre Morel
Writer Jean-Patrick Manchette, Don MacPherson, Pete Travis
Actors Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca
Country United States, Spain, United Kingdom, France
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa XT Plus, Panavision Primo, C-Series, Kowa Prominar and Nipponscope Lenses, Arri Alexa XT Studio, Panavision Primo, C-Series, Kowa Prominar and Nipponscope Lenses, Red Epic, Panavision Primo and C-Series Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex ARRIRAW (2.8K), Redcode RAW (5K)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Kowa Scope (anamorphic) (source format) (some shots), Nipponscope (anamorphic) (source format) (some shots), Panavision (anamorphic) (source format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema