Take Bruce Willis and an old Jason Bourne script. Have Bruce go recruit some killer buds from the old days at CIA. Choose a bad bad politician whose bad past tempts him to use the FBI, Secret Service, and the new CIA to kill off Willis and his crew so they won't get in the way of a presidential run.
Well, that was a dumb idea. Nobody can kill off Bruce Willis.
Here are the actors who made this action-explosion film worth 6 bucks for a matinee senior ticket: Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Willis, Karl Urban, and the innocent gal Mary-Louise Parker. This movie wouldn't have deserved the 7.0 I'm giving it without those top notch actors.
Richard Dreyfuss and Morgan Freeman played characters who I believe to be dead ringers for people they really are in real life. No points for those guys. Why is John Malkovich always crazy? Why do I pay money to go see Bourne Supremacy re-done in a glittery wrap? It's a good thing bodyguards Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood weren't in this film, because they'd have eaten lead.
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I saw the one where Steven Segal takes out a bad politician, too. Was that a 7?
Why bring in Costner and Eastwood? In their own right, they're cool, too.
It may not be the killer thrill ride you'd expect from an action movie with a cast of this caliber, but Red still thoroughly outshines most of its big-budget counterparts with its wit and style.
This is an impressive ensemble for such a slight movie, but in a story so weightless, it might just float away without these performances to keep it grounded.
Action sequences are just poorly shot. It feels like they took a few comic panels from the book, but you don't see the effects of a given action.
...cartoon characters...
Red is an insult to our memories and to our intelligence, an unfunny farce whose veteran cast is cashing a retirement check
"RED" is a smart, well directed action film that counts among its cast an incredible fourteen Academy Award nominations and four Awards.
What might have been a guilty-pleasure romp is hobbled by poor direction, sloppy pacing, and a story line that can't decide whether it's farce or a retread.
Like having your gun jam during a twenty-one gun salute.
Red is an agreeable piffle, a fun action/comedy that's silly without being moronic.
Bud Light. Hint of skunky. Good bones.
I guess retirement isn't always boring after all, huh?
Joe Biden wanted to see this movie, but he decided to just read "The Big Triple" review instead, and stay home. Thanks a lot.
One thumb up. Up a sugar plum. This film is like a caramel coated wolverine. On a steek.
Six bucks beats $12.50 here in NYC. Where is it $6? So, I can just read about Red here for free? Did you guys review Doctor Zhivago?
Slake, you cheapskate! Go pay for the day at an Islander's game. You'll see the same fighting. Take three hundred bucks.
I check this blog every day. Am I a moron? No, I don't think so. I think I'm on the front row of something really important. Where else can you read enlightened reviews written by plain uninformed citizens?
I'd have named this film "Reddish Orange". That's the color of the barrel on Helen's machine gun.
This is a comment about the reviewer's high density style. I got everything I want to know about "Red" from this little white Altoid of info. I got the nut of fact and opinion in one neatly husked meat. Grated. Mmmm.
Dreyfuss makes a poor weasel.
When that guy was about to shoot Morgan Freeman, I thought I heard Freeman say "Forgive them for they know not what they do". Then, Morgan capped the guy with a silenced 9mm he kept under his pajama. I knew.
Is this the station where they take off for Infinity? Do they have a First Class section?
When I called the Social Security office, I got Tong. Could Tong help me fend off a CIA attack? Would Tong go on a dinner date with me?
COME ON!!! Red is a dud in the relationship category. That good looking gal should have been cast as a Greenpeace whale watcher.
I'm losing my grasp on sanity here. I saw Red, but not one of these comments is curing my rampant Demi Moore sympathico.
Give it a rest, you wimpy nut.
Once the action and comedy settled out and the plot showed up, the film began to snore. Half the film seemed to be devoted to unfurling the flag of some main line acting school.
So what, all you lunchbox losers. It's worth 6 dollars, for sure. Hey, check out the reviews on this site for Transmorphers. These guys have it in the bag.
this is Dyllan Letrick's number one movie.
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