Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Fantastic!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Action scenes and combat were good enough for me. Marvin Bogs (actor: John Malkovich) was nicely characterized and it was delightful to watch him. But even his characterization had its own flaws.The first bad thing that caught my eye was Frank's calmness and exorbitant "coolness". He was being assaulted by 2 SWAT squads, however, it felt like he didn't even worry, as if he was invaded a 100 times in the past and it is casual for him. Not only that assault should've been alerting, there were multiple situations, where anyone would get sweaty hands. His past was told very briefly. It wasn't enough to convince me, that he can act cool in those situations.Directing had many flaws. The very first minutes of the movie felt really weird. Frank woke up at exactly 6:00 without any alarm, if that is not unrealistic enough, he woke up like "a robot", that was unnatural. Also when Sarah had tape on her mouth in the car, she could've easily removed it, as her hands were tied in front of her. That is minor, but still caught my eye. The way Frank exited the car was really weird and unrealistic.Characterization lacked reason and was inadequate. Not only franks boldness was exaggerated, but while he appeared to be "professional", he fell in love with Sarah, a woman he has never seen in real life. Is he a teen? Sarah itself had little characterization, which had no reason. She was in shock, which should've rankled her. However, she later joins Frank's company with alacrity. Also, their love was "technical". No emotions, no romance.Marvin was a funny and interesting personality and he was characterized as very aware. The characterization on him was done well, however it had no influence to the main story. His abilities to detect threat didn't appear to have any effect in the end. Good, but useless characterization.It was hard to understand the story itself, due to lack of origins for the events and actions. A lot of things lacked reason.I lacked subtle, but influential details, which always buys my attention.At least is wasn't a torment to watch the movie, but it had too many flaws.

The film shows Bruce waking up and opening mail, the film also shows him talking to a woman on the phone who is talking about the CIA. The bed stand has a couple of novels next to it.Is the movie actually real or is it an actual dream/fantasy dreamt up by Bruce's character? In reality he is a boring mild manner bloke, who phones a phone chat line, becomes involved and caught up with this women's novels and the story tells his dream sequence where he actually thinks that he is ex CIA.I think it would be an interesting concept for Red 3 where in the end he wakes up, to realise that he has only been dreaming these events.

Red (2010): Dir: Robert Schwentke / Cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker: While The Expendables summoned popular action celebrities, Red seems to joke about the idea of bringing together the elderly. It regards survival not just in the plot, but in age itself. Bruce Willis plays a retired C.I.A. Whose house is shredded with bullets. He seeks out his old team in hopes to solve a case regarding a murdered journalist connected with a story that occurred nearly thirty years earlier that connects them all. Robert Schwentke previously made Flightplan, which had Jodie Foster and a decent budget to keep it in the air. Here humour and action take centre stage as our retired heroes embark upon one near death situation after another. Willis has sly comic disposition as his bored retired life leads to phone conversations with a consumer service agent whom he ends up kidnapping during his initial escape because his phone conversations are tapped. These moments are amusing but eventually he will jump into much physical violence including killing someone with a blow to the throat. Morgan Freeman plays a retired agent in a retirement home dying of cancer who makes it his last task to assist his friend. John Malkovich is very funny as a conspiracy theorist with information to aid the mission. Helen Mirren steals scenes as a retiree yearning to return to action and finding romance in the process. Mary-Louise Parker plays a kidnap victim who provides greater comic relief. Pointless amusing entertainment that isn't expendable like that other film. Score: 8 / 10

It's a one-joke movie, and the joke is ancient - pun intended - "Old people are good at stuff; hur hur!" ...Even the positive reviews I've seen of this only mention the great cast (which is true, even though they're all FAR too good for this kind of thing) and "Helen Mirren with a machine gun" ... I mean, the latter is NOVEL, sure... but, really?! That's all you guys want from a movie? You don't want, like, interesting characters, or a decent script that's more than tired one-liners and a jumble-sale of clichés?Knock yourself out, I guess... It's 'Cocoon with guns'. I want to see more distinguished people in movies, but not when all they're there for is to prove that they can plod through exactly the same moronic drivel as the younger crowd... They really should be old enough to know better!