{"id":2215,"date":"2013-07-22T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2013-11-12T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:42:05","slug":"red-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/2013\/07\/22\/red-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RED 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RED2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Directed by: Dean Parisot
\nStarring: Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Byung-hun Lee, Catherine Zeta Jones
\nRated: PG-13 for pervasive action and violence including frenetic gunplay, and for some language and drug material<\/p>\n

The gang of agents marked Retired: Extremely Dangerous are back for another adventure in \u201cRED 2,\u201d helmed by director Dean Parisot (\u201cGalaxy Quest\u201d). If you enjoyed the silliness and action of the first film, this one will not disappoint. If you missed the first movie, you\u2019ll need a strong grip on your suspension of disbelief and a willingness to take a lot of things on faith. Those who insist on character development, a lack of plot holes, and seriousness should give this one a pass.<\/p>\n

Ex-CIA agent Frank (Bruce Willis) just wants to settle down with his sweetheart Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), but that wouldn\u2019t make a terribly interesting story, would it? His paranoid and somewhat bizarre friend Marvin (John Malkovich) shows up with information that someone has leaked classified papers claiming they were involved in a dangerous mission they\u2019ve never heard of, and the CIA is likely planning to kill them.<\/p>\n

Marvin\u2019s right, of course, and when their finest fellow doesn\u2019t cut it (Frank has been marked RED for a reason), they send the best contract killer in the world: Han (Byung-hun Lee), a brilliant assassin with a grudge against Frank. Meanwhile, MI-6 is after Frank, Sarah, and Marvin for their own reasons: as part of trying to figure out what\u2019s going on, they\u2019ve broken insane scientist Dr. Bailey (Anthony Hopkins) out of his asylum. MI-6 send their best after them: Victoria (Helen Mirren), an old friend.<\/p>\n

The rest of the plot involves all sorts of silliness, including breaking into the Kremlin via a Papa John\u2019s bathroom, some very impressive stunt driving, and lots and lots of relationship advice from fellow killers to Frank. See, Sarah likes that Frank\u2019s dangerous and does dangerous things, while he wants to protect her and settle down. Not a good mix.<\/p>\n

\u201cRED 2\u201d is a lean, mean, entertainment machine. Anything unnecessary (and, let\u2019s face it, some necessary things) has been stripped from the plot. Many of the plot- and character-related conversations take place during gunfights or covert ops. There are lots of explosions and gunfights, plus some impressive hand-to-hand combat.<\/p>\n

The characters are all painted in very broad strokes, often to the point of ludicrousness \u2013 which is absolutely fine in a film like this, which exists largely as a framework for humor and action scenes. It\u2019s nice to see Frank and Sarah\u2019s improbable relationship go through the same push-pull compromise stuff every relationship does (though presumably most relationships aren\u2019t compromising about whether or not one of the people gets to come along on dangerous covert ops).<\/p>\n

This is not a film that takes itself at all seriously, and all the actors look like they\u2019re having a blast. It\u2019s easy to get swept up in the infectious good humor and excitement and forgive the numerous implausible events, the macguffin the plot winds up revolving around, and the general ridiculousness. If you like the sort of thing this film has to offer, you will almost certainly love it. If not, you will almost certainly hate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Directed by: Dean Parisot
\nStarring: Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Byung-hun Lee, Catherine Zeta Jones
\nRated: PG-13 for pervasive action and violence including frenetic gunplay, and for some language and drug material<\/p>\n

The gang of agents marked Retired: Extremely Dangerous are back for another adventure in \u201cRED 2,\u201d helmed by director Dean Parisot (\u201cGalaxy Quest\u201d). If you enjoyed the silliness and action of the first film, this one will not disappoint. If you missed the first movie, you\u2019ll need a strong grip on your suspension of disbelief and a willingness to take a lot of things on faith. Those who insist on character development, a lack of plot holes, and seriousness should give this one a pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[41,57],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-actionfestorama-2","tag-rated-pg-13"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/RED2-e1374540961449.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oSX4-zJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}