
Director: Robert Schwentke
Screenplay: John Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Production Co.: Summit Entertainment/DC Entertainment/Di Bonadventura Pictures
Year of Release: 2010
The word of the day is: Honesty. So I'm going to be honest, this was a pretty ambitious flick for me to review, simply because; what is there to say? It's a movie about a bunch of retired CIA agents kicking ass. What's there to critique? Well, I honestly don't know but I'll give it a go anyway.
First thing's first - this flick is goofy. It knows exactly what it is and it has a hell of a time messing around with it. It's big, it's loud, it's fast, and it's... A bunch of old people...? It's based on the graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, which I, admittedly, have not read. However I would imagine that the films overtly comical style derives from that source.
It's not a movie to take seriously, it's got fun characters, and the script, directing, cinematography - everything, really just works to reflect that. There isn't a whole lot I can say about this film except for the fact that it's greatest strength, also happens to be it's greatest flaw: You really do have to leave your brain at the door for this one, which I'm sure anyone could expect from a film which title is an abbreviation of "Retired, Extremely Dangerous". There's a lot to love with this flick, but also a lot to simply, get bored with...
So if you want to go out and have a fun, simple easy going night with your friends, check it out. It also wouldn't be a bad flick for a first date. So go see it, enjoy it, have fun watching John Malkovich acting like a 10 year old paranoid schizophrenic, and the (always) delightful Mary-Louise Parker playing the every(wo)man, fitfully screaming at the expected absurdity. And just enjoy the hell out of old people kicking ass.
Overall rating: 6.0
The Comic is actually kind of serious, and is only about the Bruce Willis character. In fact the entire story is changed because the reason he is targeted for assasination is because there is a new beaurucratic director of the CIA and he is scared that people will find out RED exists.
ReplyDeleteI kind of preferred the movie, but you summed it up pretty well in your review
Ah fair enough. Yeah like I say I enjoyed the hell out of it, just not sure how much re-watchability it has...
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