Killer Elite (2011)

 Watching this as pandemic, comfort food at the end of NYE weekend. This long weekend provides cold comfort in a long year as a healthcare worker.

 The movie is set in 1980, and emphasizes the turmoil of the time. These days most don't realize the underlying panic that Cold War provided. Love that this movie fully embraces it.

This movie feels like a throwback to the better of tte classic 80s' action movies. Gritty fight scenes and great one liners.

Facing off Jason Statham against Clive Owen is bold and fully pays off with conducting of the stuntmen directors.

This layers of power and concern are maybe my favorite facet of the film. The drama is driven by working class level grafting. But, behind the scenes,  there are secret organizations ('organisations' maybe more appropriate considering the Great Britten POV framework.)

Statham and his crew are confronted with the Feathermen and their covert network of operatives. A secretive, official seeming operative communicates with the hitman headhunter who provided the setup in the first place. The Feathermen have overstepped their bounds and the operative, who calls himself, "MFWIC", Mother Fucker What's in Charge, intervenes to stop Spike from intervening in this resolution to the conflict benefitting the English government.