Critics often gripe about the blink-and-you have missed it frenzy of action sequences in today's Hollywood thriller.
The spy caper "Red" admirable rejects the trend slowing things down to a digestible pace for vintage at the border to geriatric hero of Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren suitable.
Despite the impressive cast that includes Mary-Louise Parker, Richard Dreyfuss and Ernest Borgnine, this latest adaptation of the hip graphic novel fails yet terribly interesting to fill in the spaces between the action with nothing.
Director Robert Schwentke ("Flightplan," "the time traveler's wife") is a mix of action and comedy but never quite on either delivers.
The action is OK, but nothing done better a hundred times before you haben.Einige which is the action experience seen endless Swiss cheese to turn into the filmmakers, buildings and vehicles, such as signs, fire the endless rounds of ammunition.
The laughs light and sporadic, sibling writers are Jon and Erich Michael not in a position to enough clever interaction between the history of the band of ex-CIA activists targeted for removal to generieren.Es a huge opportunity missed, certain Willis' cool under fire comic charm and the brilliant co-stars from which he was bouncing better jokes might have.
Willis' Frank is a former Black Ops Maestro deleted is on the pasture, life quietly retired, when a hit squad shows his townhouse in snuff out to him.
Escape his attackers, Frank reasons who go behind the plot's for the people he cares about is that he from rushes Sarah (Parker), a federal it will already clumsy pension benefits to protect workers, promotes by phone.
With her gift for playback of wily and ditzy at the same time, the best thing about "Red" as her wide-eyed, innocent Sarah - is longing to escape your office cubicle and have some adventures - hiking around the country will Confederate on a tacking Frank's gung-ho.
Frank gradually his old team including ironic nursing home denizen Joe is back together (Freeman), trigger happy conspiracy theorists Marvin (Malkovich) and noble but deadly Victoria (Mirren).
Together; his callous agency handler to go up against an ACE CIA Hitman (Karl urban, surprisingly brings heat an acquired role) (a poorly fehlbesetzt Rebecca Pidgeon who about as threatening as good is a dove); and a ruthless corporate profiteer (Dreyfuss and who knows what he thought when he signed this snarling uncomfortable, thoroughly uninteresting crawl to play).
The 93-year-old Borgnine has some pleasant moments as a CIA Archivist as Brian Cox as an old rival McMahon is according to the cold war of frank and his Team.Julian sniveling opportunist Vice President.
Willis does a decent variation on its "Hard" Act, play a highly capable hand in shootings or car but a gawky schoolboy hunts, when it comes to romantic relationships.
Still, there just isn't enough "Yippee ki yay" to "Red."The heroes may be retired, but that does not spy game with a little more youthful abandon go on.
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