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RED -- Review #JPMN

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Channel: Movie Night · 2012 · Film & Animation

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RED (2010) -- Wasted potential, just plain boring, 4/10.

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~~ Review Script ~~
An acronym standing for Retired, Extremely Dangerous - RED features an ensemble cast of Hollywood veterans as former CIA operatives who must unravel a conspiracy involving the highest levels of the American government to not only clear their name, but also to survive. The film stars Bruce Willis as Frank Moses - an ex-black-ops CIA agent who is just trying to live his retirement out in peace, as he attempts to court Sarah Ross, played by always adorable Mary-Louise Parker, a customer service agent that handle's Frank's pension fund. When Frank is targeted by a hit-squad in the middle of the night, he is once again pulled into his former life of killing bad-guys. To help him defend himself, he gathers his former CIA friends - played by John Malkovich, Mogran Freeman, Helen Mirren, and Brian Cox - all of whom do very little to bring their respective characters to life, and honestly, feel like they're involved with this film more for the paycheck than anything else. Especially Freeman, who despite receiving top-billing, is on screen for only about 15 minutes. Playing the roles of the bad-guys, Karl Urban and Richard Dreyfuss bring a bit more character to the screen, but are sadly just as forgettable as the uninspired plot they're stuck in. As former operatives, the cast approaches each mundane gun fight and explosion with a disinterested, "been-there, done-that" attitude... and while this bad-ass attitude can certainly be an incredibly effective trait for an action protagonist, it is handled so poorly here, that it is impossible to be excited by anything on-screen. Even Sarah, a women completely out of her element, and being shot at, barely seems phased by the ridiculous events happening around her. "Red" trudges along from scene to scene with not a thought to momentum or pacing, only occasionally providing the viewer with a quick shoot-out, that fails to advance the plot or effect the main characters in anyway. One scene has Helen Mirren opening fire on some bad guys in a hotel's basement kitchen... eventually, she's hit with a stray bullet, and wounded - but it's obvious the injury isn't just insignificant, it also completely inconsequential to the plot. Although feeling a bit awkward at times, Frank and Sarah's relationship is really the only thing in this movie worth rooting for... with some of their early scenes together being the highlight of the film. Sadly, Sarah goes missing for nearly the entire second half of the film, as director Robert Schwentke seems to just forget about her. There are a few moments here that might make you smile, but as an "action-comedy", RED fails to faithfully deliver on either with most of the movie feeling like a chore, rather than an adventure. "Wasted potential, just plain boring." 
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