Good Bruce Willis flick, entertaining.

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 2011)

'R.E.D.' - 'Retired, extremely dangerous.' That is the code word for Bruce Willis as Frank Moses, perhaps the best 'black ops' agent that every worked. Alone in his retirement, he fights boredom by calling the administrative agency, and talks to Mary-Louise Parker as Sarah Ross, he claims the monthly check hasn't arrived so she has to send him a replacement. Then he tears up the check in his hand. He finds her nice to talk to even though they never met.
The action starts one early morning hour when Frank gets up for a drink of water, while a group of armed men are in his house. He first pretends to be half asleep but circles around and gets the best of all of them. Realizing someone wants him dead, he goes on the run.
He ends up first in Kansas City, where Sarah lives, and he is in her home as she returns from work. He basically kidnaps her, but for her own good, those who want him dead also are after Sarah because of their phone conversations, she may know something.
At one point my wife turned to me and said, "This movie is really well made." And it is, very interesting and entertaining. Frank eventually joins up with other former members of his black ops team, Helen Mirren as Victoria Morgan Freeman as Joe Matheson, and the kookie character played by John Malkovich, to figure out what is going on. Sarah, fresh from her boring desk job, finds all this action fascinating and is thoroughly enjoying the situations she finds herself in.
Rebecca Pidgeon, rarely seen outside David Mamet movies, here is Cynthia Wilkes, working for the government, and her agent searching for Frank is Karl Urban as William Cooper.
SPOILERS: In a 'situation' from the 1980s, a man who now is US Vice President, and soon to run for POTUS, had killed a bunch of people, and now he wanted to make sure none of the others there were alive so no one could talk. The list was being killed off, and Frank was one of them. It was up to him and his group to de-fuse that situation and bring out the truth.