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Frank, Joe, Marvin and Victoria used to be the CIA's top agents, but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission. But when you're considered "Retired, Extremely Dangerous," an impossible mission is just another day at the office. Based on the cult DC Comics graphic novels by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner. |
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RED (2010)
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Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert!Overall, the movie works. The script by Jon and Eric Hoeber is excellent. Someone required that Bruce Willis's (age 55) love interest be a younger woman, so they cast Mary-Louise Parker (age 46), which is not as bad a stretch as I expected from Hollywood. "RED" also stars Helen Mirren (65), Morgan Freeman (73), John Malkovich (57), Richard Dreyfuss (63), and Brian Cox (64), with a cameo by Ernest Borgnine (93). Karl Urban (28) played the poor current agent opposing all that goodness.
This is definitely an action film for the Ensure set, but the action probably will work for all ages. It's way over the top. People are blown up non-gorily in towering infernos of flame and smoke. Our heroes never kill any good guys, although they will stoop to knocking them silly. Willis does his patented smirk, and Malkovich pretty much steals every scene he's in with a looney-tunes character that many actors would die for, but few could do.
The gist of the plot is that a number of retired agents have been marked for termination with extreme prejudice, and Willis, Freeman, and Malkovich are on the list. Willis finds out the connection was an extraction in Guatemala, and he puts together the team of retirees (marked R.E.D. by the CIA - Retired, Extremely Dangerous). Parker gets pulled in because she knows Willis and happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The aging -- no, make that aged -- former agents kill the bad guys, blow things up, and generally have a whooping good time talking about the old days and how much tougher things were in their youth. I was worried about Mirren being able to pull it off as a killer with automatic weapons, but she handled it with graceful a...
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reviewed by philip (Filmaster.com) on the 19th of October 2010
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Red is an ironic action comedy that rewards its viewers with star-studded charisma and Hollywood wit. Unfortunately it gets mired in its own absurdity, and never manages to be humorous enough to win me over. The actors, particularly Willis, are playing parodies of their previous on-screen personas, which leaves their characters feeling flat, despite their ample, and distracting, quirks. I was tickled by a few moments in this film, but overall I was unethusiastically disappointed.