PG-13, 116 min.
Director: Dean Parisot
Writers: Jon Hoeber, Erich
Hoeber, Warren Ellis (characters), Cully Hamner (characters)
Starring: Bruce Willis, John
Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Byung-hun Lee,
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Neal McDonough, David Thewlis, Garrick Hagon, Tim
Piggot-Smith, Brian Cox
“Red 2” isn’t really a good
movie. It isn’t trying to be. Now, that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t try to be a
good movie; but at this point, for these filmmakers, do they really even need
to care? Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Malkovich doing his best John
Malkovich impersonation. I mean really… they don’t care. They’re still better
than many. So you have to decide, am I going to hate this, or am I at least
going to try and enjoy it.
I chose to try to enjoy it,
and I did. The movie is absurd and it’s at it’s best when it is acknowledging
that it is absurd. Of course, it’s an espionage plot, so it has to take much of
its happenings seriously, but the plot isn’t the reason you bother with this
film. You need to watch for Willis to be Willis, Parker to be Parker, Malkovich
to be whatever it is that he is. And they do that. You can enjoy that. Don’t
expect too much else here. Oh, Anthony Hopkins is pretty Hopkins too.
I give it two and a half
stars. I can’t say it’s good, but it is what it is. If you want to watch it,
then you might as well enjoy it.
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