Killer Elite

Killer Elite (2011) is an action thriller with Jason Statham you can watch online on iFILM. Danny, a contract killer trying to leave the trade behind, is dragged back when his old mentor Hunter turns up held captive somewhere in the Middle East. The ransom is grim: three kills, each staged to look like an accident.

To free his friend, Danny (Statham) reassembles his crew and takes a job from a dying sheikh out to avenge his murdered sons. Standing in the way is Spike, a polished operative for a shadowy brotherhood of British special-forces veterans, played by Clive Owen behind a memorably broken nose. Robert De Niro takes the role of Hunter. The chase sprawls across Oman's deserts, London rooftops, Paris bridges and the Australian outback.

Gary McKendry made his feature debut here, working from Ranulph Fiennes's book The Feather Men, which presented its account as fact rather than fiction. The fights are bare-knuckle and grounded, leaning on stunt work and physical contact instead of CGI. Stream Killer Elite (2011) online on iFILM.