Review of Red (2014) by Sam P — 11 Apr 2012

I saw this on Sunday, and went in with the expectations of a good fun action movie, akin to the Expendables. And I admit, there was a few bits I enjoyed, Helen Mirren was awesome, John Malkovich was very funny in several scenes, Brian Cox made a good cameo, and Morgan Freeman was his usual solid self, but in actuality, I felt that the film was stolen by Karl Urban.

He was cool, sophisticated, intelligent, funny, and had some good action scenes, he basically ran away with the film, which was quite impressive in the cast, but unfortunately, several comedic lines came off a bit flat, too much of the supposed humour wasnâ(TM)t that great, however, the comaderie between the REDâ(TM)s was very good, very believable.

Good fun, worth a watch :).