Rating of
3/4
Red (2010)
MovieAddict - wrote on 01/28/12
The former John McClane plays Frank Moses, a former CIA operative, who is so bored in retirement that he spends his days sitting around the house, reading trashy romance novels and intentionally rips up his checks just so he can have a reason to telephone pension clerk Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker).
After a rather intense invasion of his home by mysterious gunmen, he travels to Kansas City, and kidnaps Sarah, fearing that the people, who want him dead, may also want to kill her. He is therefore a little put out when Sarah reacts to his unheralded arrival in her apartment by screaming and objecting to being kidnapped and his lack of hair.
Frank discovers he's been labeled RED (an acronym, in CIA terminology for Retired and Extremely Dangerous) and decides to get to the bottom of the story by seeking help from old, and equally dangerous friends such as cancer-stricken, but intelligent Joe Matheson (played by the legendary Morgan Freeman), excessively paranoid stealth-man Marvin Boggs (played by John Malkovich), and caring, but fiery assassin Victoria (Played by Helen Mirren). An over the top enjoyable romp that tries not to take itself too seriously and worth a watch even just to see Helen Mirren in cocktail wear and army boots managing to look sophisticated manning a heave duty machine gun.
Karl Urban is the young ambitious secret service guy William Cooper charged with tracking down these elderly loose cannons and a heart-warming cameo from the legendary Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Dreyfuss as the man with all the answers
