Synopsis
The Killer Elite (1975) is a crime action thriller from Sam Peckinpah, and you can watch online in good quality on iFILM. Mike Locken and George Hansen are freelance operatives whose private outfit takes the dirty jobs the CIA won't claim. Mid-assignment, Hansen turns on his partner — a bullet through the elbow, another through the knee.
Everyone writes Locken off as a cripple, finished. Instead he spends months hauling himself back, relearning how to move on steel braces, driven by one thing: getting to the man who shot him. James Caan and Robert Duvall play the long-distance grudge, and the whole thing tightens toward a showdown with Japanese swordsmen on a mothballed fleet.
Peckinpah is less interested in spycraft than in men the government uses up and discards. His trademark slow-motion gunplay is here, but there's more fatigue and bitterness than heroics. A good pick for fans of hard-edged 1970s cinema and the director of The Wild Bunch. Stream The Killer Elite (1975) online on iFILM.
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