Red Alert Fun

Rating: Null/10 (26 January 2011)

After a long time there's finally a cool fun action movie. Silly may be one of the adjectives used to describe 'Red' but that doesn't prevent it from being entertaining nonetheless. While there's plenty of action sequences that involve fights, gunshots and explosions, it is the dialogue and chemistry between the actors that made this movie. The impressive ensemble too is quite unique. Who would have expected to see Bruce Willis, Mary Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss and Morgan Freeman in the same film? All the actors do a great job even though I felt that Freeman's character was more of the token black guy. It's fun to see Mirren play a hot dame with a machine gun and Parker do more comedy. Malkovich too is hilarious as the slightly paranoid one who thinks everyone's out to kill him. 'Red' has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments to brighten one's mood. It's certainly not a bad choice to watch with friends or family.