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- Former CIA-Agent, Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), adjusts himself to retirement and even decorates his house for Christmas. He keeps on tearing up his checks as an excuse to keep on conversing with Sarah Ross, (Mary-Louise Parker) a Pension Department employee. Then one day, his residence is attacked by heavily-armed, masked assailants; he escapes but his house is destroyed. He meets with Sarah, abducts her, and convinces her that she in danger. He seeks the assistance of the Russians, and breaks-in the CIA HQ and finds his file is tagged as 'R.E.D'. (Retired Extremely Dangerous). He contacts his former associates: Joe, Marvin and Victoria, who join him with a plan that will pit them against security forces - especially when he announces their agenda is to kill VP Stanton (Julian McMahon). But then things get complicated after Sarah is apprehended and held for interrogation.
- Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored, and lonely living off his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life is his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker, Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sarah is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces Frank back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into Frank's past and the people he used to work with. Like Frank they are all RED ... Retired Extremely Dangerous.
- Red is based on a graphic novel by the great comic book author Warren Ellis. To say that his first adaptation to screen isn't like the book very much might be an understatement (I've yet to read it, but it's missing things like, say, the ensemble, and much of the humor). But this isn't always a terrible thing, if the director's intentions are in the right place. For the movie of Red (or RED, with each letter coming out to be some kind of CIA thing), it's meant to be a romp with aging action stars and the gifted actors who are above 50. It says a lot of the faith in a project- and the durability of its players- when the youngin' in the group is Bruce Willis (not counting Mary Louise Parker, who is really just along for the ride). And all of the actors, almost despite the silly nature of the script at times, are game for what's doing in a story of CIA operatives brought back into the game of things.<br/><br/>Frank Moses is living low in a setting not unlike the one Willis was in in the Whole Nine Yard movies. He finds one night, however, that a small militia is at his house at night and opens fire. Why is he targeted? What about other operatives like the in-old-age-home Joe (Morgan Freeman), or the stay-at-home lovely old lady with a big f***ing gun Victoria (Helen Mirren), or the (putting it lightly) paranoid and (putting it exactly) maniac Marvin (Malkovich). And what about this 'average Joe-ette' in Sarah, who is really along for the ride as she's been having innocent conversations as Frank's pension planner? And why is she sticking with him for so long and getting into it as much as she does?<br/><br/>This last question is the only one that really stuck in my craw. Like another spy-on-the-lam-on-the-lover movie this year, Knight and Day with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, it is questionable to a fault, even with the suspend-disbelief nature of the material, that a woman who doesn't really want much to do with this guy ends up not only getting into the swing of the killing-things but also falling for Frank. This is the weak link in a story that should have a believable relationship at its center, and it doesn't really. I didn't buy the two of them together, even as Willis and Parker weren't giving bad performances... not very good either, but acceptable.<br/><br/>So what else is there? The other actors, for one. Malkovich plays this ex-CIA guy, living in a bunker and still reeling from the every-day-for- 11-years acid trip he took and thinking anyone following him is out to kill him (and helicopters man!), with total dedication and raucous insanity. It's a pleasure to see him at work, and it's one of his most sheerly enjoyable performances, one where he isn't quite coasting but is knowing what has to be done to take the p**s out of the material. Mirren brings some class to the material too and is fine to watch, though she comes in just a wee too late to really make an impact like Malkovich - her firing lots and lots of guns does make for entertaining viewing. And Freeman, also not quite substantial a role, albeit his final scene in the movie is as good as anything he's ever done (by that I mean his best work, a mixture of hilarity and serious pathos).<br/><br/>The action goes at a brisk and cool pace, and there's a bad-ass stand- off between Malkovich and a bunch of thugs in a docking station (sure, not believable, but it's funny, that's what counts here). The director Schwentke does go overboard with the music- it's goofy, TV style- and, again, the main romance doesn't quite click. Everything else is good, solid escapism, with well-choreographed fights such as one between Willis and Karl Urban that has a bit of adrenaline to go a long way, and likable 'serious' actors getting to have some fun.
- I like it when an entertaining movie also manages to kick up a little controversy. I'm speaking here of the whole business about Joe (Morgan Freeman) giving it up for the team so Frank (Bruce Willis) and Marvin (John Malkovich) can make their escape. I too have watched that scene a number of times and there's enough ambiguity in it to come up with any number of conclusions. Because Joe and Frank said their good-byes to each other, I'm inclined to believe that Joe is dead, but remember, this is a comic book story. Heck, even Superman died and came back. I think Joe could too with the right kind of writing, I can probably come up with a scenario myself. We'll just have to wait and see.<br/><br/>Anyway, as many times as Bruce Willis does Bruce Willis, he's still cool to watch. I enjoy deadpan humor sprinkled with sarcasm and occasional insight into the human condition. Teaming him up with Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren was something like, well if not genius, at least semi-smart. They all worked well and played off each other like only competent assassins could. The part of Sarah could probably have been done by any versatile actress, but Parker really did get into the groove once the picture got going.<br/><br/>The Ernie Borgnine double cameo was a bonus too. Going strong at ninety five as I write this makes me want to see him hit the century mark in some film. Has that ever been done before? Maybe if 'Red 2' makes it, he can follow it up in 'Red 3'. No one could ever accuse him of being Retired: Extremely Dangerous.
- It's a lot of fun and, because of the high quality of the cast, there's no need to feel guilty about praising such an inherently silly motion picture.
- Two aging black ops CIA agents Frank Moses (<a href="/name/nm0000246/">Bruce Willis</a>) and Marvin Boggs (<a href="/name/nm0000518/">John Malkovich</a>) discover that their names are on a RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous) hit list because of a secret operation pulled years ago in the Central American country of Guatemala. Enlisting the help of former CIA operative Joe Matheson (<a href="/name/nm0000151/">Morgan Freeman</a>), ex-KGB agent Ivan Simonov (<a href="/name/nm0004051/">Brian Cox</a>), and retired MI6 sharpshooter Victoria (<a href="/name/nm0000545/">Helen Mirren</a>), they try to uncover their assailants and their reason for wanting to kill them with federal pension worker Sarah Ross (<a href="/name/nm0000571/">Mary-Louise Parker</a>) reluctantly tagging along. RED is based on a comic book written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner. It was originally published by Homage Comics (an imprint of DC Comics) as a three-issues series from 2003 to '04. It was later collected into a single trade paperback that includes both "RED" and "Tokyo Storm Warning", another comic penned by Ellis. The comic was adapted for the movie by screenwriting brothe1rs Jon and Erich Hoeber. It was followed by a sequel, <a href="/title/tt1821694/">RED 2 (2013)</a> (2013). He knew that Library of Congress numbers start with letters, whereas many municipal libraries use the Dewey system, which is generally a decimal number followed by the Cutter number, which generally starts with the first letter of the author's name. Frank recognizes the number on the postcard as being in the Harvard-Yenching cataloging system used for cataloging Asian books. Stuck in the book with that call number is the list of people who were on the Guatemala mission, most of whom are now dead. The term "wet" comes from the Russian expression mokroye delo, meaning "wet job". It is a spy slang euphemism for murder or assassination and refers to the spilling of blood. KGB and CIA agents who function as assassins may be referred to as "wet boys" performing "wet work" as opposed to "dry work" like intelligence gathering. Why Marvin added "like peaches" to the term is most likely an allusion to the fact that it is difficult to eat a ripe peach without getting yourself all wet. What he was definitely alluding to is his contention that the helicopter circling over his house held assassins who were looking to kill him. Their own ex-employers, the CIA. From agent Gabriel Singer (<a href="/name/nm0001664/">James Remar</a>), they learn that the Guatemalan mission involved extracting a person from a village and that everybody on the hit list has been killed to silence them. From shady arms merchandizer Alexander Dunning (<a href="/name/nm0000377/">Richard Dreyfuss</a>), they further learn that the mission was to extract the now-Vice President Robert Stanton (<a href="/name/nm0573037/">Julian McMahon</a>) who, at the time, was a young lieutenant who wigged out and massacred the villagers. Dunning also attests that Stanton is the one trying to erase all the loose ends. Frank calls CIA agent William Cooper (<a href="/name/nm0881631/">Karl Urban</a>) and tells him to bring Sarah to him at the Evanston Power Plant in 15 minutes or will kill the Vice President. Cooper arrives alone, but a limo drives up a few minutes later carrying Sarah, Cooper's superior Cynthia Wilkes (<a href="/name/nm0682071/">Rebecca Pidgeon</a>), Alexander Dunning (<a href="/name/nm0000377/">Richard Dreyfuss</a>), and several thugs. While Cynthia holds Sarah at gunpoint, Dunning shoots the Vice President, then orders Cooper to cuff Frank and kill both him and Sarah. The plan is to say that Frank shot Stanton, then Cooper shot Frank and Sarah. In return, Cooper will be made head of the CIA. Dunning explains that he is really the mastermind of the assassinations and that he's just using the CIA to carry out the work. Cooper cuffs Frank as ordered but stuffs the key in his hand. When Frank starts walking toward Sarah, Cynthia points her gun at him, but Cooper shoots Cynthia. Frank applies a crushing blow to Dunning's larynx, after which he hugs Sarah as Victoria, Marvin, and Ivan arrive, taking out Dunning's thugs. The five of them depart together, leaving Cooper to handle the Vice President (who is still alive). Later, in the car, Marvin says he has a feeling that something terrible is going to happen, but Frank says that it can't be that bad because, for the first time, no one is following and trying to kill them. Ivan then reminds Frank of a favor he is owed and asks for his help with "a small nuclear problem" in Moldova. In the final scene, Marvin and Frank are racing through a Moldovan field, Frank pushing a wheelbarrow containing a nuclear warhead and Marvin wearing a dress, both being shot at by the Moldovan army. "Next time," Marvin yells, "your girlfriend can wear the dress!" a5c7b9f00b
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