When a retired CIA operative is targeted for elimination, he assembles his old team to find out who wants them all dead.
Many Americans (myself included) have been looking forward to RED since the first trailer came our earlier this year. If you haven't even heard of this yet, prepare for another action movie in a year of action movies--except this one has an all-star cast and is liable to make you laugh the entire time as well. Our hero this time around is Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), who thinks he might have found a girl (Mary-Louise Parker) who will let him put his past behind him and lead a "normal" life. A professional hit squad, that he deals with rather well I might add, lead to a more awkward first meeting than he hoped for. So he rounds up friends from the old days to figure out what is going on (Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren) while they are pursued by young CIA operative William Cooper (Karl Urban).
RED delivers on everthing the trailer promised, from beginning to end. We have more than enough action to classify this as an action movie, and more than enough one-liners and laughter-inducing scenes to call it a comedy as well. In addition to the cast above, you can expect some notable roles from Richard Dreyfus and Brian Cox to give you even more of a reason to get to theaters this weekend and see this film.
Sure, some of the camera-work could have been a little better and the plot itself isn't anything outstanding. Let's face it, we're not exactly looking at anything that is likely to get anybody an Academy Award in a few months. But that also is part of the reason you want to go and see it--because it's a blast to watch and sure to sate your movie appetite for the month. Unless of course you wanted lots of drama and romance, but there are other movies in theaters to provide that.
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