RED (2010)

STILL ARMED, STILL DANGEROUS, STILL GOT IT

The Story:

It was begin when the retirement of Black-ops CIA agent, Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), who just lived lonely through his pension life and started falling in love to Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), a customer service agent working for Frank’s pension office in Kansas City, was hunted to be killed because of a project he done when he was active as CIA Top Agent.

So Frank ran and looking for help whether from his old friends and enemies who looked to old to done the Secret Agent’s job anymore, to found the reason why he was hunted and who gave the order. Furthermore he found the vice president who campaigned to be United States’s President was in the back of all. Could Frank and his old teams touch even catched the Vice President while the young brilliant CIA agent, William Cooper, (Karl Urban) who kept hunt him involved Sarah to this situation?

Released Date: October 15, 2010
Distributor: Summit Entertainment
Directed by: Robert Schwentke (Flightplan, The Time Traveler’s Wife)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Hellen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker, Karl Urban, and John Malkovich
Budget: $58,000,000
Gross Revenue: $154,670,912 (worldwide), $87,170,912 (US)

Review:

Adapted from Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s Comic Series which published by The DC Comics, RED was nominated in Satellite Award for three categories, Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical (John Malkovich), Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical (Mary-Louise Parker), and Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical.

This one is a movie filled with veterans. Besides Bruce Willis and John Malkovich, there are Morgan Freeman, Hellen Mirren and Brian Cox. Well, you can imagine something similar to The Expendables, only with different kind of actions. Instead of fighting with muscle and blowing up everything (which is, of course, quite impossible for those who above 50′s), the heroes fight cleverly and using all their experiences they’ve got when they were working as an agent.

RED short for Retirement Emergency Dangerous is a twisting of action, humor and a little romance movie. Although nothing is extraordinary from this movie, RED is solid and good written. I don’t categorize it as a full action movie, but it’s still interesting to watch it in the family room when you are at home and relax with the family.

My Rating: B-

IMDb user rating: 7.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 70%

Metacritic:61/100

Yahoo! critics: A-

Yahoo! users: B-

Your Rating: (2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
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