Don't pay to see this

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2011)

If you like slapstick explosions in an action thriller with the sound track from a 70s porn flick you will enjoy RED ... but be warned, the story is all over the place and you will be expected to fill the gaps yourself .. not in a solve-the-mystery fashion, but more in an explain-why-they-are-doing-what-they-are-doing fashion. Only die hard fans (see what I was doing there) will be prepared to put the effort needed into enjoying this film. I can understand why attention whores like Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich would appear in a film like this, but I am left flaccid by the fact that Helen Mirren was also in it. :(