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.

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.

Despite being somewhat neutered by the ever present annoyance of the PG-13 rating, Red is some of the most fun you can have with in the glib assassin subgenre of action comedy. Bold, hilarious and just a little bit demented, it jumps right off the pages of the graphic novel it was based on for just under two hours of wiseass popcorn movie nirvana, hosted by a cast that's almost too good to be true. 'RED' stands for 'Retired Extremely Dangerous', a moniker given to aging ex contract killers who have laid down the guns, but are still closely watched by the CIA. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is one such person, languishing in the doldrums of forced retirement, bored out of his mind and chatting endlessly with a cutey call center girl (Mary Louise Parker). Things get freaky when deranged former associate Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) pays him a visit, belting out wild theories about the CIA sending operatives to terminate him. Before he knows it, Frank is swept up in espionage and intrigue once again, pursued by a slick, ruthless agency man (a deadly Karl Urban doing the anti-007 shtick nicely), with Parker in tow, whose terrified reactions to the escalating violence and deadpan sociopaths around her get funnier and funnier as the film progresses. Helen Mirren is regal gold as a well spoken ex MI6 spook who dissolves corpses in bathtubs full of acid, right before afternoon tea, I presume. Watching this dainty waif rock a Barrett 50 caliber and make red mist out of her enemies is one of the many mental pleasures one can get from this flick. Morgan Freeman takes it easy as another former buddy of theirs from the older, and I imagine, more agile days. As for the supporting cast, hell, take your pick. Richard Dreyfuss is a slimy Trump-esque politician lowlife, an underused James Remar shows up for a very brief cameo, as does that old toad Ernest Borgnine, Julian McMahon once again shows that no one wears a suit like Julian McMahan, and that lovable imp Brian Cox almost walks away with the film as a sly devil of a Russian agent who woos Mirren with the silver tongued virility of a fox. What works so well the dynamic between the three leads; Malkovich is mad as as hatter, Willis plays exasperated babysitter and Parker looks on in horror that starts to turn into amusement with every outlandish scenario. Action comedies are tricky recipes, and it's easy to let too much of one ingredient slip into the pot. This one keeps a steady trigger finger that's locked onto the funny bone and positively sails.

I was shown Red back in 2010. I had no interest in watching it, but when I finally did, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this movie is filled with hilarious and action packed moments. The casting was well done. Having Bruce Willis cast as Frank Moses was a great move and having other well known names such as Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich was a nice touch. Mary Louise-Parker was great in the character of Sarah, but my favorite character of them all was by far Marvin. He said most of the jokes and I found that him being a crazy, aging man was the perfect role for John Malkovivh. Red was one of the few action/comedy movies that kept true to it's title. Never once during the entire movie did I find that the movie had changed directions and abandoned what it promised to be. The final few scenes were shot near perfectly, with such a well thought-out finale to this movie being the best part. If you have enjoyed other Bruce Willis films or want to have a few good laughs in an action movie, I cannot recommend this film more.