What happened to this film?

Well, all movies eventually get buried under New ones

It was ambushed by a cup of coffee

It is a great movie, but I think it suffers from a couple of weaknesses.

The political end of this might be just a bit too squishy for people to relate to. This should help keep it from feeling dated, but there's just too little much ambiguity as to who works for who. I know it's supposed to be part of the nature of the film (I mean it is called Ronin..), but I think it makes the whole thing seem too vague until the end.

The other is the action scenes may be just a little too over the top. It's all spy vs. spy, yet there's these car chases with rocket launchers, automatic weapons, mass destruction in Paris? It kind of strains credibility a bit.