Frank, Joe, Marvin, and Victoria used to be the CIA's top agents -- but the secrets they know just made them the Agency's top targets. Now framed for assassination, they must use all of their collective cunning, experience and teamwork to stay one step ahead of their deadly pursuers and stay alive. To stop the operation, the team embarks on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies and cover-ups in government history.
Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Thriller and Adaptation Running Time: 111 hr. Release Date: October 15th, 2010 (wide) MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action violence and brief strong language. Distributor: aaaa
Cast And Credits
Starring:
Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker
Directed by:
Robert Schwentke
Produced by:
Jake Myers, Gregory Noveck, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
If you are in the mood to revisit some of the bad movies of last summer — there was no shortage — then “RED” may be just the ticket. You might even say that this movie, directed by Robert Schwentke and based on the comic books created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, represents a do-over, a moderately successful attempt to restore the entertainment potential of two much-abused genres.
Now Queen of the Firing Range (October 10, 2010) Part of “RED” is an action-romance-comedy more or less along the lines of “Knight and Day,” the misbegotten Cameron Diaz-Tom Cruise caper from June that a lot of people wished had been better, a few people liked, and the vast majority did not see. Mary-Louise Parker takes the role of the bored singleton whose life is turned upside-down, endangered, saved and finally transformed by her entanglement with a man whose professional existence is full of danger.
In this case Mr. Danger is Bruce Willis, a mellow, weary, retired C.I.A. super-assassin (or something) named Frank Moses, who flirts on the phone with Sarah (Ms. Parker), a customer-service representative at the office that processes his pension checks.
A squad of killers shows up at Frank’s house in Cleveland just as he is about to head to Kansas City to meet Sarah, who now has no choice but to run off with her new beau and protector. Some first date, though she admits she’s had worse. She spends some of it gagged with duct tape and handcuffed to a bed (though not for sexual purposes: this isn’t Showtime, it’s a PG-13 movie).
And then, as a high-level conspiracy to end Frank’s retirement slowly reveals itself, it’s time for genre No. 2. As soon as Morgan Freeman shows up, and before he utters a predictable line about “getting the band back together,” “RED” signals that, in addition to being an action-romance-comedy, it will also be an old-timers-on-the-warpath-looking-for-payback movie. (See “The A Team” and “The Expendables.” By “see,” I mean “note for purposes of comparison,” rather than actually watch on a screen.)
And before you know it, Mr. Willis and Mr. Freeman are joined by John Malkovich, Brian Cox and Helen Mirren. They all go and visit Richard Dreyfuss. Ernest Borgnine makes a few brief appearances.
If you are in the mood to revisit some of the bad movies of last summer — there was no shortage — then “RED” may be just the ticket. You might even say that this movie, directed by Robert Schwentke and based on the comic books created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, represents a do-over, a moderately successful attempt to restore the entertainment potential of two much-abused genres. 
And then, as a high-level conspiracy to end Frank’s retirement slowly reveals itself, it’s time for genre No. 2. As soon as Morgan Freeman shows up, and before he utters a predictable line about “getting the band back together,” “RED” signals that, in addition to being an action-romance-comedy, it will also be an old-timers-on-the-warpath-looking-for-payback movie. (See “The A Team” and “The Expendables.” By “see,” I mean “note for purposes of comparison,” rather than actually watch on a screen.) 
