The Past never really escapes you

Rating: 7/10 (31 October 2013)

I actually wonder whether there is actually anything really deep and meaningful in this movie, but even though there may not be, this was still an enjoyable action movie with a number of stars which could be considered to be coming to the end of their acting careers. I have noticed that there are a few of these movies coming out, the other one that came to mind was The Expendibles, but whereas the later reminded me a lot of the A-Team this movie seems to stand out on its own.
RED, an acronym for Retired, Extremely Dangerous, is about a group of ex-CIA agents who have retired and are now living on government pensions. However, their past has never quite got away from them as it has come to light that one of their missions has become an embarrassment to one of the US officials, and he has decided that he wants to erase all memory of this event, so he has ordered a hit on everybody that was involved.
The problem is that it is not all that easy to get rid of a bunch of ex-CIA killers, and the more one tries the more it comes back to bite them. Therefore if there is one thing that does come out of this movie it is about how our past never always stays in the past, and in many cases it will always be there to haunt us. This is something that is true with myself because I know that in the past I was a real wild child, yet for some reason, while I got myself into trouble, it was not necessarily trouble that will haunt me, and though I know people that still remember that past, many of them have long gone.
This is where God comes into it. If there is one thing that I desire about my past, and this is to have forgiveness for what I have done. I know that there is no way to erase it, and like the events in RED, if we do attempt to go out and erase it, then it is only going to create more problems for us. Indeed it is when we try to deal with the past ourselves that past really begins to invade the present, however with God, while the past is still there, and while it will still haunt you, it is comforting to know that the forgiveness that God offers you enables you to continue to go forward knowing that in God's eyes, the past has been cleaned and we know the comfort that forgiveness brings.