The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2011)

RED
If you're superannuated from the CIA, the acronym RED stands for Retired, Extremely Dangerous.
However, if you're a regular pensioner, RED just means Retired, Extreme Dementia.
And while ex-CIA agent Frank (Bruce Willis) is compos mentis in this action/comedy, to him the definition of RED is Retired, Extreme Doting.
Spending the majority of his retirement chatting via phone with pension representative Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), Frank is stunned when his black-ops past comes back to haunt him in the form of a CIA hit squad.
With Sarah's life now in jeopardy and an upstart agent (Keith Urban) on his trail, Frank convenes with his former-hit squad (Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren) and together they wage war on their former agency and a sadistic presidential hopeful.
Based on Warren Ellis' comic book, RED is rich with laughs and bullets, a risqué combination that hasn't worked since that tragic comedy club shooting. (Green Light)