Old dudes love this film

Rating: 6/10 (29 March 2014)

I watched this movie with my father-in-law. He's in his 60s and I think this movie spoke to his heart. It's based around the usual action movie clichés about some tough guy agent who's forced out of retirement to kick some butt a final time.
The best part of the movie is the casting. Bruce Willis is a bit paint-by-numbers in his usual role, but John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, and Hellen Mirren all play against type and it's fun to see them in a cheesy shoot-em-up movie instead of their usual more "sophisticated" roles. Malkovich steals the show here. He's so good in fact that I almost wish they made a different movie with him as the star. His performance alone is reason enough to watch the movie. The entire film is a bit like Expendables, but I think the RED guys are in on the joke a little more than Stallone and crew, who are still taking themselves too seriously after all these years.