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Thursday, April 7, 2011

RED (2010)

Directed by Robert Schwentke
Starring Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Brian Cox, Karl Urban, Richard Dreyfuss, Rebecca Pidgeon, Julian McMahon, Ernest Borgnine, James Remar

RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) is an action comedy that could've easily turned to shit in lesser hands. Luckily director Schwentke (Flightplan) gets the quirky material and the result is a funny action comedy powered by legendary character actors just having fun and blowing shit up. The plot is whatever it is, it's not important, we're here to see Malkovich act crazy and paranoid. We're here to see Freeman dress as an over the top African ambassador for a job and most of all we (or at least I sure am!) are here to see Mirren grab various automatic weapons and laying waste to endless droves of bad guys. It's a shame Malkovich already started to cash in on these action capers years ago with horrible pieces of shit such as Eragon and Mutant Chronicles because now it doesn't feel so special anymore to see him relax in an action role unlike Mirren who has never done a balls to the wall action movie before, but rather these so called art house dramas. Willis plays his standard grinning action guy and is almost a minus among the fun. A very entertaining flick and a deserved pad on the back for the superb supporting cast since Cox, Borgnine and Dreyfuss also have fun on the side lines.

RED on loistava toimintakomedia, jota on ennen kaikkea ilo katsoa loistavien ja arvostetuiden veteraaninäyttelijöiden pitäessä hauskaa kerrankin vieraassa genressä. Malkovich toki on aloittanut toimintaleffoilla rahastamisen De Niron tapaan jo jokunen vuosi sitten ja valitettavasti hirveillä kuratekeleillä kuten Eragon ja Mutant Chronicles, mutta esim. klassisesti koulutettu brittidaami Mirren (The Queen) on aidosti hilpeä nähdä massiivisen rynkyn takana suolaamassa pahiksia täyteen reikiä. Willis esittää jälleen sitä samaa pilke silmäkulmassa virnuilevaa toimintajehua ja on omana kliseenään melkein miinus, mutta onneksi ohjaaja Schwentke (Flightplan) pitää Willisin ja leffan toiminta/komedia-balanssin hienosti hanskassa. Kaikin puolin viihdyttävää rytinää josta etenkin keskeisten näyttelijöiden mukana olosta kicksit saavat lämpenevät suurella varmuudella.

RED at IMDb

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