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A mysterious Irish woman calling herself Deirdre (Natascha McElhone) hires five mysterious mercenaries—Sam (Robert De Niro), Vincent (Jean Reno), Gregor (Stellan Skarsgård), Larry (Skipp Sudduth), and Spence (Sean Bean)—to steal a mysterious suitcase from a mysterious group of men who are transporting it from Paris to Nice in hopes of selling the mysterious contents to some mysterious Russians. It's all very mysterious, but the chase is on.

Ronin is based on a story and screenplay by American playwrights J.D. Zeik and David Mamet (credited as Richard Weisz).

（浪人）A ronin is a Japanese samurai without a master as could happen when a samurai's liege is killed or shamed. The ronin then becomes forced to wander the land, looking for work as a hired sword or a bandit. Although there are no Japanese samurai or ronin in this movie, the five mercenaries are compared to them, as they are all ex Special Forces and intelligence operatives. At one point in the movie, the story of 47 samurai who became ronin during the feudal period is detailed. Three movies about the 47 have been released: 47 Ronins (2013) (2013) and two versions in Japanese: A Vingança dos 47 Ronins (1941) (1941) and 47 Ronins (1994) (1994). The seven samurai in Akira Kurosawa's Os Sete Samurais (1954) (1954) are essentially ronin, as are many of the samurai in Kurosawa's films.

Yes, for long shots, no for closeups. The staircase that Sam descends in his very first shot is real, the Rue Drevet in the Montmartre (18th) district of Paris. This "street" runs between the Rue des Trois Freres (at the bottom) and the Rue Berthe (at the top). When Sam walks behind the staircase, it's a replica of the stairs - there is no courtyard behind them, only small, narrow alleys where the local businesses keep their garbage cans. The bar was actually a Tex-Mex restaurant called Blue Sky that has since been torn down and replaced with a block of apartments and a new bar called Patoche.

For the production, the street scenes were edited together with a carefully reconstructed replica of Blue Sky's entrance. If you watch Vincent enter the bar, you'll see two people pass from right to left between Vince and the camera, which covers an edit between the actual location and the set. The interiors were filmed in a studio.

Sam explains to Deirdre that he doesn't walk into a place he doesn't know how to walk out of. He hid his gun near the back door of the cafe so that, in case things went bad and he had to shoot his way out, he could either escape and run outside to grab his weapon or, if they intended to kidnap him, he could pretend to trip, grab the gun, and fight back. If he'd tried to carry the gun inside the bar, they might have frisked him and taken it, leaving him defenseless.

"Raspberry jam", as used by Spence, refers to a tight encounter (like in the close-quarters within the tunnel) between two small, but relatively equally-armed, troops. They also refer to it as an "ambush", although an ambush usually implies that one side is concealed and lying in wait for the other side to pass by, at which time the first side will pull a surprise attack on them. In the raspberry jam, however, everyone but the sniper was visible to each other.

Or perhaps he's trying to joke about how they almost got killed, "raspberry jam" referring to the splatter of blood and guts.

Sam uses a .45 Mil-Spec 1911 handgun, a 40mm HK69A1 grenade launcher, a SIG SG 551 assault rifle, a LAW (bazooka), an FN MINIMI-Para Mk 2 light machine gun, and a 9mm SIG-Sauer P228 handgun. Deirdre uses a 9mm Jericho 941FB Compact handgun and a 9mm HK MP5A3 submachine gun. Spence uses a 9mm SIG-Sauer P228 handgun and a 9mm HK MP5K submachine gun. Vincent uses a 9mm Beretta Cougar Inox. Larry uses a 12-gauge Mossberg 590 Compact Cruiser shotgun and a nickel-plated .45 Taurus PT945 (Brazilian copy of a Beretta 92). Gregor uses a 9mm Glock 17L with sound suppressor and EOTech holosight.

Sinn Féin is an Irish political party closely allied with the IRA (Irish Republican Army). The name is Irish for "we ourselves". Their members were often, but not exclusively, made up of former IRA operatives but were never directly involved with violence. However, since the signing of the Good Friday peace agreement, Sinn Fein, along with the Provisional IRA, has denounced terrorism, and its Vice President is actually deputy first Minister of Northern Ireland in the Northern Irish power-sharing assembly.

The cars used by the main characters in the chase sequences are an Audi S8, Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9, BMW M5 E34 (actually 535i's were used with M5 badges) and a Peugeot 406. In the Nice chase sequence, the bad guys use a Citroen XM as the main car and 3 Peugeot 605's as support cars. Other cars used by the main characters include a Volkswagen Combi Type 2 van (used at the beginning), Peugeot Expert van (used as a control centre during the Nice chase), Jeep Cherokee (used by Gregor when he meets the Dapper Gent), Renault Safrane (used in Arles), Volkswagen Golf Mk3 (used by Vincent and Sam to travel to Jean-Pierre's house in the mountains) and a Peugeot 306 (Sécurité car used by Deirdre at the end of the film).

Other cars include a Volvo V70 R and an E32 BMW 7-series (these two are used by the arms dealers), a Citroen Xantia (used by Sam's CIA colleague), Peugeot 205 (police car that briefly chases the Audi S8 after the shoot-out with the arms dealers), Citroen ZX (police car that flips over in a Paris tunnel) and a 1980s Lincoln Town Car stretched limousine (Natacha Kirilova arrives at the ice skating show in this).

In the big Paris chase scene, traffic vehicles that crash include a Rover 800, Citroen BX, Renault Express van and Peugeot 406 Coupe (this group hits some bollards, has a pile-up and explodes), Renault Express post van and Citroen BX (Citroen rear-ends post van), Peugeot 406 and Citroen Saxo (Citroen rear-ends Peugeot), Alfa Romeo 75 (hits a tunnel wall and explodes), Renault 21 (driver is hit by a stray bullet, crashes into a tunnel pillar and explodes) DAF 2200 truck (crashes into a line of cars and nearly overturns) and Audi 80 (rolls over).

Some exotic and luxury cars that be spotted during the film include a 1960 Ferrari GT Cabriolet (being worked in a garage scene), Ferrari 456 GT, Rolls-Royce Corniche and a Bentley Eight (outside the hotel in Nice) and a Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit (in front of Natacha Kirilova's limo at the ice skating show and parked outside when everyone rushes out)

Although the movie was left open at the end, hinting that Vincent and Sam may work together in the future, no plans for a Ronin 2 movie have been announced. Given that Robert De Niro is in his 80s and Jean Reno is in his late 70s, it's unlikely a sequel will happen.