Take a movie based on the cult DC Comics graphic novels by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, bring in an exceptionally strong ensamble cast, mix in great action and season with some very humorous and snappy dialog and you get: AWESOMENESS!
The theater was filled with laughter and oooohs during the entire film, it was a great experiance. I highly recommend it!
How closely it follows the novels? I don’t know, I have not read them… But I intend to now after having seen the film.
Wait. Seriously? I had no idea.
I was planning on seeing the movie based on the trailer’s merits, but it seems I have to swing by the comic shop first.
This was great fun!
I really enjoyed the movie perhaps because you got the impression Bruce and co had a blast making it. The cast is spectacular and used well but this isn’t a movie to see them pushing their talents to the max.
Some excellent action, not huge laughs but plenty of humour and it’s on my Blu-ray want list:)
Oh, a screener got loose on the net, silly of them.
saw it this afternoon and loved it. my theater was packed for the first show of the day a week later, and everyone got really into it. even my husband thanked me for dragging him out to see it after.
if you liked the expendables but thought it could use less torture and srs bzns plot attempts in the middle bit, and also helen mirren on the team, you’ll probably like this.
I was totally onboard to see it based on this thread until the comparison to The Expendables. That was the most disappointing movie I saw this year and hugely unsatisfying. If Red is similar, then foxtrot that sierra. Absolutely not.
My wife and I watched this tonight and we both really enjoyed it. Very fun and entertaining movie. I think I enjoyed it so much because it was very well done, not too serious, and nicely paced. Definitely worth the $20 to see it in the theater.
I walked out of The Expendables. Didn’t do anything for me, and I spent much of the time marveling at Sly’s face. (I wish celebrities would realize most cosmetic surgery’s just a bad idea.)
RED was a completely different experience. Fun, clever, good acting (by people who are growing old gracefully), cool action. Just a good time at the movies. I’ve seen it twice and would be happy to see it again. RED is the movie The Expendables wishes it could have been.
Go, Thunderscreech! Do eet!
I’ve seen it twice already and might even see it again before its run in the theater is over. I’m not sure of The Expendables comparison. I walked out of that one about 20 minutes into it.
On the plus side for RED, you’ve got a great group of actors that can, in fact, walk, talk and act all at the same time. They all seem to be on the same page as far as what kind of film they’re making here, and I’d call it a comedy-action movie if I had to boil it down. There are a ton of just laugh out loud moments, the kind of quick laugh that escapes your body before you have a chance to register (or limit) it. I heard lots of laughs from all over the theater constantly, and I added to them myself regularly. The action is medium speed, and the violence is total PG or less. No gruesome blood soaked scenes, no sadistic Saw-type crap. Some explosions, a car wreck and a fistfight or two. Karl Urban was awesome, and this movie finally found a way to make me love John Malkovich. A perfect and hilarious role for him imho. Even Richard Dreyfuss showed up, as does Helen Mirren…with a .50 cal tripod mounted machine gun, no less.
In closing: If you’re in the mood for a lot of laughs, some decent action, and some great actors doing their thing, check out RED.
If you’re a plastic surgeon looking for examples of how not to perform plastic surgery, check out The Expendables. 
I should probably amend my Expendables comparison. If you want to see people who are older badasses be lighthearted, awesome, hilarious, over-the-top in a comic book way and less of a “really? whatever” way, and these older people actually look like they’ve aged instead of tried to stave it off–and you want just a fun romp instead of any real attempt at a plot that drags everything down, go for it.
It really was what I wanted Expendables to be, with a girl on the team and some of my favorite actors to boot. And the audience at my viewing made it 10x better, too.
HubAZ and I saw RED this weekend and we both enjoyed it. No complaints on this end at all. Great fun.
One complaint. Helen Mirren chose this movie to not get naked.
Saw this a couple weeks ago. Dare I say, it rather hit the “cute” button for me. Cute… with guns.
John Malcovitch’s character seemed like a comic version of Jerry in Conspiracy Theory. Both paranoid…with cause.
Am I the only one who didn’t find the movie overly awesome? I thought it was ok at best, but the predicable plot and the lack of side splitting humour killed it for me.
It was enjoyable, but not something I’d want to see in theatres again. It’s a “been there done that” movie for me.
Am I alone in that thinking? :S
I really enjoyed it, it was a fun bit of escapism with some good laughs and I thought that the cast worked really well together
Watched it this weekend (with much trepidation in light of the earlier comparison to The Expendables) and was very pleased!
Good recommendation.
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