Listonixio
Fresh and Exciting
Intcatinfo
A Masterpiece!
Salubfoto
It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Aridas Brikas (Abricos)
Action scenes and combat were good enough for me. Marvin Bogs (actor: John Malkovich) was nicely characterized and it was delightful to watch him. But even his characterization had its own flaws.The first bad thing that caught my eye was Frank's calmness and exorbitant "coolness". He was being assaulted by 2 SWAT squads, however, it felt like he didn't even worry, as if he was invaded a 100 times in the past and it is casual for him. Not only that assault should've been alerting, there were multiple situations, where anyone would get sweaty hands. His past was told very briefly. It wasn't enough to convince me, that he can act cool in those situations.Directing had many flaws. The very first minutes of the movie felt really weird. Frank woke up at exactly 6:00 without any alarm, if that is not unrealistic enough, he woke up like "a robot", that was unnatural. Also when Sarah had tape on her mouth in the car, she could've easily removed it, as her hands were tied in front of her. That is minor, but still caught my eye. The way Frank exited the car was really weird and unrealistic.Characterization lacked reason and was inadequate. Not only franks boldness was exaggerated, but while he appeared to be "professional", he fell in love with Sarah, a woman he has never seen in real life. Is he a teen? Sarah itself had little characterization, which had no reason. She was in shock, which should've rankled her. However, she later joins Frank's company with alacrity. Also, their love was "technical". No emotions, no romance.Marvin was a funny and interesting personality and he was characterized as very aware. The characterization on him was done well, however it had no influence to the main story. His abilities to detect threat didn't appear to have any effect in the end. Good, but useless characterization.It was hard to understand the story itself, due to lack of origins for the events and actions. A lot of things lacked reason.I lacked subtle, but influential details, which always buys my attention.At least is wasn't a torment to watch the movie, but it had too many flaws.
RoboRabbit89
RED is an awesome action-comedy. Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and the rest of the cast were great.This review may contain spoilers.We meet Frank (Willis) at home and we see he's living a lone. But soon masked armed men brake in, and shoot up the place, but the cunning Frank is no fool or an ordinary guy. He fights back, the intruders with deadly force, and we come to relies Frank is a retired CIA agent, with his cover blown he must reassemble his old team. Marvin, Joe, Victoria and a life insurance assistant named Sarah help Frank on his quest to find out why they've been tagged RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous).Overall, a cool action-comedy I really enjoyed. Great cast, funny and a well written story.I give it a 7/10. Highly recommended.
writers_reign
I stumbled across this whilst surfing the channels, finding the first reel a mixture of blah and ho hum but after Willis took out a highly organised and heavily armed SWAT team with nothing but a pea shooter I kept watching just to see how much more improbable it would get. I didn't have long to wait as it became more unrealistic by the minute. It also had a nice line in bringing in Headliner supporting players as needed rather than wheeling them out all at once so that Morgan Freeman appears in about the fourth or fifth reel, John Malkovich a couple of reels later and Helen Mirren around the hour mark. It moves at a fair clip and should please its target audience, the fifteen-to-twenty-three set.
Python Hyena
Red (2010): Dir: Robert Schwentke / Cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker: While The Expendables summoned popular action celebrities, Red seems to joke about the idea of bringing together the elderly. It regards survival not just in the plot, but in age itself. Bruce Willis plays a retired C.I.A. Whose house is shredded with bullets. He seeks out his old team in hopes to solve a case regarding a murdered journalist connected with a story that occurred nearly thirty years earlier that connects them all. Robert Schwentke previously made Flightplan, which had Jodie Foster and a decent budget to keep it in the air. Here humour and action take centre stage as our retired heroes embark upon one near death situation after another. Willis has sly comic disposition as his bored retired life leads to phone conversations with a consumer service agent whom he ends up kidnapping during his initial escape because his phone conversations are tapped. These moments are amusing but eventually he will jump into much physical violence including killing someone with a blow to the throat. Morgan Freeman plays a retired agent in a retirement home dying of cancer who makes it his last task to assist his friend. John Malkovich is very funny as a conspiracy theorist with information to aid the mission. Helen Mirren steals scenes as a retiree yearning to return to action and finding romance in the process. Mary-Louise Parker plays a kidnap victim who provides greater comic relief. Pointless amusing entertainment that isn't expendable like that other film. Score: 8 / 10
