Could've been so much better

Rating: 5/10 (11 May 2017)

As Morgan Freeman puts it,
"We're getting the band back together. That's nice"
and it's when the cast is having fun with the material that "RED" is decent. And a solid cast it is, but the lead was entirely miscast. Bruce Willis applies his halfhearted smirk and lets everyone else do the heavy lifting. And so much of this focuses on his character, so he just sucks the energy right out of it.
I didn't like watching this very much because the tone was all over the place. When the (better) costars were on the screen, there was glee, there was energy; and they're doing their best with lackluster characters. If Willis would just get out of the way and let Malkovich, Freeman and Mirren work, this would be great.
5/10
Speaking of Helen Mirren, she's the shining star of this movie. She just lights up the screen like the guns she wields (which are huge). And that is something to see.