Review – Killer Elite

So let me make sure I understand this correctly. A mercenary gets blackmailed into taking a job for a Omani potentate. The mission: assassinate members of a British cabal who killed the potentate’s sons. The targets are all former SAS commandos. Each has to confess his guilt before he dies. And their deaths have to look like accidents. That’s so ridiculous that it must be based on a true story. Either that or the filmmakers are banking on the notion that they can cast Jason Statham and Clive Owen, throw in a hearty dose of jump-cut fight scenes and send action movie fans away happy without bothering so much with dialogue or plot. The 1975 movie with a similar title was a much better picture. Mildly amusing