Review – Red

This plays out like a comic book combination of The A Team and The Bucket List (and if you’re waiting for a link to an 8sails review of The Bucket List, you may be waiting awhile). A superannuated super-operative (Bruce Willis) learns the hard way that he’s on someone’s hit list, so with a woman he’s been pestering in tow he heads out across the country in search of compatriots and answers. Along the way he picks up an old war buddy (Morgan Freeman), a nutcase (John Malkovich) and an assassin (Helen Mirren) who help him set things right. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the action sequences. Mirren was quite good, and everyone else was adequate to the task. Even Willis managed not to offend too badly. Mildly amusing