—
47 Ronin
Film
FilmR1998
Ronin
Directed by John Frankenheimer
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case. From TMDB
217 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
—
No Data
Sentiment labels for these sources are still being hand-checked; no score yet.
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 64 | 6 | 135 |
| Mastodon * | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| TMDB reviews * | 2 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
What people are saying
A written summary appears once the title has a score.
At a glance
Ronin is a 1998 action thriller crime film, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno and Natascha McElhone.
- 193 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Aug 19, 2022 to Nov 3, 2026
Assembled from TMDB, Wikidata and Steam fields and our own counts, nothing written by a model. Method
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
217 public posts have mentioned Ronin so far, but it needs 10 opinionated reactions from checked sources before it gets a score. Seen it? Post your take.
The Experts
70%
avg of 3 sources
The People
—
audience score
Reactions
60 of 217 · most liked firstwatching the 4K release of Ronin with frankenheimer's commentary and learning that the car chases in the movie were happening *at speed*. no camera tricks or anything, they were straight up *racing*. "we set up all the actors in high performance driving school so they were used to the speeds."
neutral · AI labelView post →Still say Ronin is the best Christmas movie. They die hard.
positive · AI labelView post →Ronin (1998) 🎬🖤 Directed by John Frankenheimer
neutral · AI labelView post →My love language is reading the phrase "love language", looking it up, discovering it's some American Christian thing, saying aloud "who am I, Billy Graham?" and watching the movie "Ronin" (1998, Directed by John Frankenhiemer) instead.
positive · AI labelView post →Live-action 'TMNT: The Last Ronin' film is still in development at Paramount 🐢 Follows the lone surviving turtle after his brothers and Master Splinter are killed off one by one It will be Rated-R
neutral · AI labelView post →‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ co-creator Kevin Eastman thinks ‘The Last Ronin’ movie will still happen 🐢 "I don't think the movie's off the table, I think it's just delayed" ⚔️ (via EW)
neutral · AI labelView post →'The Last Ronin' R-rated live-action film is no longer moving forward (via THR)
neutral · AI labelView post →The live-action ‘TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE LAST RONIN’ movie is no longer happening. Ilya Naishuller (‘Nobody’) was in talks to direct the film (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)
neutral · AI labelView post →talking about Ronin recently, I was reminded of the best driving film ever made: C'était un rendez-vous, Claude Lelouch's 8-minute race through Paris. verifiably an influence on Mission: Impossible - Fallout's chase, but I'm also 99% sure it had to be an influence on Frankenheimer, too
neutral · AI labelView post →Fascinated by this film poster I saw on Tubi for Ronin Mecha 3: Space Transformer
neutral · AI labelView post →Ronin is a movie that loves Deniro’s stressed-out driving face and hates uncrashed French cars
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Ronin for the first time and holy fuck these car chase scenes. This must be what it feels like to watch the simpsons for the first time as an adult and start connecting all the pop culture homages bc i feel like basically every city car chase in every spy movie since this were 'doing ronin'
positive · AI labelView post →Mate of mine was admiring my Audi A8 and started talking about Ronin to which I replied I’ve never actually seen the film. Much to my surprise this got delivered today 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →there's a bunch of examples of this, of directors who would keep the entire 4:3 film frame clean so they could do an open matte for the 4:3 home video release instead of pan and scan. e.g. RONIN and EYES WIDE SHUT are both like this iirc bsky.app/profile/pepp...
neutral · AI labelView post →We had a bunch of people over last weekend for “adult Shamrock Shakes”—grasshoppers. (The recipe is in the movie Ronin.) The eggs are in the shot as a flex, admire my wealth.
neutral · AI labelView post →Been thinking this for a while but I'm convinced there's a certain kind of movie GM's could greatly benefit from watching and Ronin is one of those films; maybe I should make a thread of movies like that should I do that, if ppl are interested I could lol
neutral · AI labelView post →what are your fave DVD commentary tracks? mine- 'Ronin' John Frankenheimer just spitting action movie knowledge for the entire runtime 'Cannibal: The Musical' i hate matt & trey but they cooked here, everyone get hammered 'Sideways' Giamatti and Hayden Church being hilarious for two hours 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Ronin (1998) Directed by John Frankenheimer
neutral · AI labelView post →Another film inspired piece, this time Mizoguchi's The 47 Ronin. The uncompressed image is nearly 10k in height.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ronin, 1998. Dir. John Frankenheimer. I teach blocking and framing for film and would recommend my colleagues to understand why it is so important to establish not just location but the geography and position of actors within a scene. Thanks: Vashi Nedomansky @vashikooon for original post.
neutral · AI labelView post →Re watching the classic Ronin 1998 and noticed at the 1 and half hour mark you can spot the film crew getting real close to the very fast cars and also hiding in the arches of tunnel and clearly not the safest of places. You’re making a racing game? hide the camera crew for the cinematic cameras!
positive · AI labelView post →Hot take incoming. Ronin is my generation's French Connection. An okay cops and robbers film that by virtue of it's car chases somehow got elevated over time to the level of "important cinema" among the dad audience, much to the confusion of future generations.
negative · AI labelView post →Tonight I will watch 47 Ronin I love you Keanu Reeves please save this movie from being an Asian Mysticism slog
neutral · AI labelView post →Last four films watched - Yojimbo (1961), Project Hail Mary (2026), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Ronin (1998) @letterboxd.social #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #films #films2026 ❤️📽️🎬🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry Ronin has the best car chase in any movie bar none.
positive · AI labelView post →Den of Thieves: Pantera (Gudegast, 2025) - cinema is back on the menu, ladies and gentlemen. The first word we hear in the movie is “Ronin” and we go from there. God Butler
neutral · AI labelView post →People complain about film studios underestimating their intelligence now but Ronin features both a text block at the beginning explaining what ronin are AND a guy with a monologue in the middle explaining what ronin are.
negative · AI labelView post →lots of good choices, but Ronin is probably the coolest movie of the 90's imho
positive · AI labelView post →Ronin rules but it is the most 1998 movie that has ever existed
positive · AI labelView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched plus 2! It was Jean Reno week at my place! The Crimson Rivers, 1 > 2 La Femme Nikita, small part, big impact Leon, big part but dumb film Wasabi, dumber film but fun Ronin, top shelf entertainment #JeanReno #France #moviesareswell #passthepopcorn
neutral · AI labelView post →I revisited John Frankenheimer's RONIN for the first time since the theater and man, that is a *movie*. Incredible car chases, yes, but also such a beautiful simplicity in its depiction of professionals using every technique they know just to fight over a metal case.
positive · AI labelView post →The R-Rated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin live action movie is no longer happening. Ilya Naishuller was in talks to direct the adaptation. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ronin is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ronin is a Christmas movie in that it‘s exactly right for just chilling out & watching a sick movie
positive · AI labelView post →they JUST had a great movie with mutant mayhem and their response is to do more live action slop and cancel the last Ronin movie???? who the fuck runs this franchise? god damn are they fucking stupid
neutral · AI labelView post →Is one of the most entertaining movie types a HEIST movie? @briancgrubb.bsky.social Ocean’s movies Guardians 1 Ant man mission(s):impossible Point break More than one fast and the furious Ronin Thomas crowne affair Robin Hood’s Italian job Rogue one Butch Cassidy Usual suspects
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's port (org. 8/14/23): "This week, we're working on Tokkyu Chushingura (in English, 47 Ronin) for the Toy Film Museum in Kyoto. This is a rare Katei Toki paper film print that included a soundtrack to accompany the film. We still have work to do on this film but excited to see the results!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched a movie with Sean Bean in it, then watched a movie with Jean Reno in it, so now I'll watch a movie with Sean Bean *and* Jean Reno in it. It's Ronin time, baby
positive · AI labelView post →Don't know who was talking about Ronin here the other day, but thank you, whoever you were. Terrific film, and I don't know how I hadn't heard of it before.
positive · AI labelView post →Let's go chasing cars...two car-chase movies today, first up, John Frankenheimer's stylish but rather empty Ronin, in which Robert De Niro, Sean Bean, Stellan Skarsgård and more chase a missing briefcase around Nice and Paris in expensive high-end BMW's. 3 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/07/20/r...
neutral · AI labelView post →We could have had a live action Last Ronin movie but Paramount cancelled it
neutral · AI labelView post →Just found out the rated R Lat Ronin movie was cancelled. They want the new #tmnt live action movie to be like the #SonicTheHedgehog live action movies. 😭😭😭. My fave sabotaged my fave!!!! #rottmnt #thelastronin #sonic
neutral · AI labelView post →For the upcoming live-action Last Ronin movie, would you rather see suits and puppetry like the 90s films or CGI like the Bay movies?
neutral · AI labelView post →#JuneMovieChallenge 6/17. Someone chased in a film. Ronin (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ronin is ironically like the only movie he was ever in where his character doesn't get killed!
neutral · AI labelView post →Woah, this really blew up! If you wish to support a French(ish) movie with a problematic screenwriter, please check out Ronin (1998, Directed by John Frankenhiemer)
positive · AI labelView post →Im not big on “grim dark” anything, but Last Ronin is a cool story and could have been a unique film. Rips and sorry to everyone involved. 😕
neutral · AI labelView post →I know we all want a live-action Last Ronin, but give me a beautifully animated movie in the style of Predator: Killer of Killers and I'll be obsessed.
neutral · AI labelView post →My 11 year old would like to recommend The Worst Ronin by @maggietokudahall.bsky.social to everyone. “It definitely should be made into a movie. 5 stars, no notes.”
neutral · AI labelView post →it has been 0️⃣ days since I put the hat on in my house because I’d been drinking and a skarsgård movie was on (Ronin)
neutral · AI labelView post →According to Variety, a new R-rated live-action film is in development inspired by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. If I could make one wish, I would return to the turtle suits. The 25-year-old film still looks so much better than the most recent films.🐢
neutral · AI labelView post →So you just gonna say that AFTER the Last Ronin movie got cancelled 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →Ronin is, imo, the best car chases ever presented in film. It dethroned Bullitt immediately. It even challenges The Blues Brothers as the most entertaining car chases ever in film.
positive · AI labelView post →During Den of Thieves 2 I thought about Ronin, Tenet, the Miami Vice movie, Rififi, The Flintstones, Before Sunset and The 15:17 to Paris (complimentary)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not being sarcastic, RONIN is a great movie
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching Ronin (1998) #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →In praise of one of my favorite actors, Michael Lonsdale (1931-2020). From Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black to Frankenheimer's Ronin, he always brought a lot to a film. #MichaelLonsdale #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. 94 Ronin
neutral · AI labelView post →Last movie with an IRA character is…Ronin?
neutral · AI labelView post →[Review] Building off of season one's The Duel, we once again find ourselves following “Ronin” and his droid, B5-56, in a classic samurai film take on the Star Wars universe.
neutral · AI labelView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
