Parker (2013)
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A professional thief seeks bloody revenge against a crew that left him for dead after a botched heist.
The story
Parker is a professional thief who is tasked by his mentor, Hurley, to lead a heist with an unfamiliar crew. After successfully robbing the Ohio State Fair, a member of the crew alters the plan, causing a fatal accident. Outraged by the death, Parker refuses to participate in a subsequent jewel robbery. The crew, needing their share of the loot, attempts to eliminate Parker, but he survives the attack. Seeking to protect his girlfriend and daughter from a Chicago mob boss, Parker travels to Palm Beach, where he assumes a false identity to track down the crew and exact his revenge.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
After a botched heist at the Ohio State Fair results in a death, Parker's crew attempts to kill him. Parker survives and is directed by his mentor, Hurley, to find the crew in Palm Beach. To evade a Chicago mob boss, Danzinger, Parker poses as a wealthy oil baron to find a house. He meets Leslie, a struggling real estate agent who helps him despite discovering his identity is fake. After surviving an attack by Danzinger's hitman, Parker and Leslie team up. They intercept the crew during a jewel auction. Using rigged weapons, they kill the entire crew. Parker gives Leslie the jewels, later kills Danzinger in Chicago, and sends money to the farmers who saved his life.
- First release year
- 2013
- Runtime (minutes)
- 118
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Taylor Hackford
- Writers
- John J. McLaughlin · writer; Donald Westlake · source material author
- Cast and characters
- Jason Statham · Parker; Jennifer Lopez · Leslie; Michael Chiklis · Melander; Bobby Cannavale · Carlson; Nick Nolte · Hurley; Wendell Pierce · null; Clifton Collins Jr. · null; Patti LuPone · null
- Genres
- action; thriller; crime
- Themes
- revenge; identity; loyalty
- Tone and mood
- action-packed; noir; brutal
- Premise and plot tags
- heist; anti-hero; crime
- Source material / true-story basis
- Flashfire, the 19th Parker novel written by Donald Westlake under the pen name Richard Stark.
- Franchise connections
- Parker series
- Reception
- The film received mixed reviews, with critics praising the performances of Statham and Lopez but criticizing the script as generic and convoluted. It was considered an average grosser at the box office.
- Reported review scores
- Rotten Tomatoes · score: 42% · review count: 103; Metacritic · score: 42 · scale: 100 · review count: 21; CinemaScore · score: B+ · scale: A+ to F
- Production trivia
- Statham performed all of Parker's stunts, including jumping out of a moving car.; The film was briefly the #1 film on Netflix in the United States in March 2021.; The character Parker first appeared in the 1962 novel The Hunter.
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