RED
3 out of 5 stars

umm… had mixed feelings about this one because i thought the premise of old/retired CIA agents taking on their lifelong employer would be fun/comical and would have me rooting for the underdogs. not so much, which was disappointing… was it the lack of good acting? (ahem, a boring bruce willis) or perhaps lack of a really good script? (confusing at times) plus, would this tech. be a romantic action? still sooooo confused to where this was going… :/



there are already two movies sim. to the plot of this one, where a govt agency is trying to eliminate old assets. (e.g. A-TEAM and the losers) well, you’re in luck because this is pretty much the same thing. bruce willis plays frank moses AKA ex-CIA black ops operative who is now retired and living on his pension in a quiet suburb of cleveland, OH. he’s bored, has no family, has no romance, so he chats up an equally lonely soul over the phone, who happens to be his pension benefits rep. (mary louise parker) then, all of a sudden (not really), frank is visited by a special ops execution squad who want him dead. they also want MLP dead too, so frank flies to st. louis to then take her to new orleans, where joe (morgan freeman) can help him figure out who is behind the hit(s). this then leads to crazy marvin (john malkovich), who probably has the craziest living situation on the face of this planet. (you’ll see what i mean...  LOL that pig is so awesome!) throw in, helen mirren’s character victoria (a great sniper and with such class!) and brian cox playing an ex-russian spy, and pretty much you’ve got this movie! :P


oh, and then there’s a conspiracy involving the VPOTUS, but you can figure that out for yourselves… best characters were probably veteran actors helen mirren and john malkovich (he’s always playing some wacked out character), but ACTINGFAIL on bruce willis. (why is he so boring?) then, there’s the whole romantic angle between MLP and bruce willis, which is fine in an action flick, but does it really have to be the center of it? i think i would have felt better if this was more of the old guys taking down the “company” for their own reasons, comical or not. (e.g. not getting their full benefits thus preventing them from having an enjoyable retirement) see… i can see john malkovich going bat-shit crazy over something like that! :P