A highly well acted, tight and good paced spy plot.

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2014)

*Spoiler/plot- RED, 2010. An aging CIA operative is lonely and starts to form a phone relationship with his government pension worker troubleshooter. While doing this, his life and home is attacked by agents from another government. He survives. then he contacts some other R.E.D. agents to find out why he is now the subject of several government hit squads. This R.E.D. elderly group goes on the offensive solve the question and to get justice. It leads them to an operation in South American years before and the dealings of the Vice President of the USA.
*Special Stars- Bruce Willis, Karl Urban, Morgan Freedman, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, Richard Dreyfuss, Brian Cox, John Malkovich, Ernest Borgnine.
*Theme- Covert ops are seldom clean and easy functions of government.
*Trivia/location/goofs- Canadian, Tornoto. R.E.D.- Stands for Retired, extremely dangerous. Frank Moses' birth date in the dossier is revealed as 19 March 1955, which is Bruce Willis' real birth date. When Colonel Moses is challenged by armed guards, they give him a hand salute. Armed guards in the performance of their duty would not lower their weapons to hand salute anyone. When Sarah Ross is holding the candle-holder, the last candle itself appears and disappears between shots. Also, its position changes.
*Emotion- A highly well acted, tight and good paced spy plot with a huge all star cast. The action and traveling all over the USA makes this film highly enjoyable. THe plot seems like a cross between a quirky Quentin Tarentino and a Bond film.
*Based on- CIA books of the day.