Red

Sometimes a movie isn’t what you expect it to be.  I’m sure most of us have seen the trailers (or seen the movie!) for Red by now.  Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich playing retired CIA agents who become the target of assassination attempts, so they all get together to find out what’s going on and fight back.  That plot is pretty generic of course, BUT, with that cast?  I was in favor of checking it out.  It turns out that “the plot is generic” is actually a pretty generous statement.  Red’s plot really only serves to get the razor-sharp cast from one insane situation to the next.  If you can forget logic and just enjoy good actors doing awesome things, Red becomes pretty enjoyable.