Review: RED

With a movie like RED, there’s really only one question: was it as fun as the ads made it look?

The answer is yes. The movie is highly entertaining. It’s like Oceans 11, except waaaay less complicated and with a lot more shooting. (Fine with me, I don’t like movies that make me think.)

The lady loves Bruce Willis. She's okay and all, but no competition for Helen Mirren.

A friend, who’s read the comic, worries this movie doesn’t look ‘broody’ enough. I can’t speak to that, but I can say that Bruce Willis always brings a certain amount of laconic, if not brooding, charm. I’m in agreement with another friend who noted that this movie had ‘a little romance, but not too much’, ditto the violence, ditto the intrigue. It is, in short, just right.

And I admit that I went mostly to see Helen Mirren but it speaks to the movie’s quality when I say that, even though it took her about halfway through the movie to appear, I was digging the old dude action — and I am someone who refused to see Wall Street II, the trimphant Boomer announcement of”we’re still here.”

But when she does appear, Helen Mirren with a gun is simply the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

And this doesn't even do her justice...

And the rest of the cast is very good. And so is the writing. Seriously, just go see it.