Cast is Red.

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2015)

Red (2010): Dir: Robert Schwentke / Cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker: While The Expendables summoned popular action celebrities, Red seems to joke about the idea of bringing together the elderly. It regards survival not just in the plot, but in age itself. Bruce Willis plays a retired C.I.A. Whose house is shredded with bullets. He seeks out his old team in hopes to solve a case regarding a murdered journalist connected with a story that occurred nearly thirty years earlier that connects them all. Robert Schwentke previously made Flightplan, which had Jodie Foster and a decent budget to keep it in the air. Here humour and action take centre stage as our retired heroes embark upon one near death situation after another. Willis has sly comic disposition as his bored retired life leads to phone conversations with a consumer service agent whom he ends up kidnapping during his initial escape because his phone conversations are tapped. These moments are amusing but eventually he will jump into much physical violence including killing someone with a blow to the throat. Morgan Freeman plays a retired agent in a retirement home dying of cancer who makes it his last task to assist his friend. John Malkovich is very funny as a conspiracy theorist with information to aid the mission. Helen Mirren steals scenes as a retiree yearning to return to action and finding romance in the process. Mary-Louise Parker plays a kidnap victim who provides greater comic relief. Pointless amusing entertainment that isn't expendable like that other film. Score: 8 / 10