A riveting late 90s, post-cold war action film, John Frankenheimer’s Ronin (1998) came at a time when the genre was changing and speeding up. Gritty fast moving scenes combined with a Hitchcockian plot device and perhaps the best car chase scene ever filmed, Ronin is loaded with good performances (Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, Michael Lonsdale and Jonathan Pryce) and stands up well to repeat viewing despite coming before The Bourne Identity.
