Red(Blu-ray) (2010)

"...a noisy affirmation that life goes on after 50...  Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle
"... a lot of fun...  James Berardinelli's ReelViews
"...it's as zippy on its feet as a third-grader...  Kyle Smith, New York Post
"...so much fun...  Mike Scott, New Orleans Times-Picayune

Editor's Note A group of former government assassins fights back against the CIA after they're targeted for knowing too much in this adaptation of Warren Ellis' acclaimed DC Comics graphic novels. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) used to be a hired gun for the CIA. Along with Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich), and Victoria (Helen Mirren), Frank's specialty was carrying out contracts that the government didn't want the public to know about. These days, Frank and his old gang are all retired, but the powers that be are still concerned that they know too much, and dispatch a team of top assassins to ensure their silence. Now, Frank and his former team members realize that their only hope for survival is to break into CIA headquarters and expose the truth. But once they're in, the group uncovers evidence of a massive cover-up that promises to rock the very foundation of our government. Karl Urban, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, and Ernest Borgnine co-star.

	John Malkovich
	Helen Mirren
	Mary-Louise Parker
	Morgan Freeman
	Bruce Willis
	Brian Cox - Co-Star
	Richard Dreyfuss - Co-Star
	Thomas Mitchell - Co-Star
	Joshua Peace - Co-Star
	Karl Urban - Co-Star
	Jacqueline Fleming - Co-Star
	Mathew Olver - Co-Star
	Lawrence Turner - Co-Star
	Jason Weinberg - Co-Star
	Michelle Nolden - Co-Star
	Dmitry Chepovetsky - Co-Star
	Audrey Wasilewski - Co-Star
	Murray McRae - Co-Star
	Justine Wachsberger - Co-Star
	Bernadette Couture - Co-Star
	Laura DeCarteret - Co-Star
	Jefferson Brown - Co-Star
	Neil Whitely - Co-Star
	Randy Wade Kelley - Co-Star
	Jason Guiliano - Co-Star
	Alec Rayme - Co-Star
	Tara Yelland - Co-Star
	Greg Bryk - Co-Star
	Jake Goodman - Co-Star
	Tess Goodman - Co-Star
	Desiree Beausoleil - Co-Star
	Jonathan Lloyd Walker - Co-Star
	Cindy Dukoff - Co-Star
	Chavis Brown - Co-Star
	Aaron Khon - Co-Star
	Rebecca Pidgeon - Co-Star
	James Remar - Co-Star
	Heidi Von Palleske - Co-Star
	Robert Morse - Co-Star
	Chris Owens - Co-Star
	Julian McMahon - Co-Star
	Jamie Jones - Stunt Coordinator
	Myron Hoffert - Assistant Director
	Florian Ballhaus - Director of Photography
	Michael Minkler - Sound Re-Recording
	Erich Hoeber - Screenwriter
	Christophe Beck - Composer
	Jon Hoeber - Screenwriter
	Cal Loucks - Set Decorator
	Tony Lamberti - Sound Re-Recording
	Jon Title - Sound
	Paul Jennings - Stunt Coordinator
	Julianne Jordan - Music Director
	Gerald Quist - Makeup
	Whitney Brown - Production Manager/UPM
	Deena Adair - Hairstylist
	Radium - Visual Effects Designer
	Zoic Studios - Visual Effects Designer
	Millie Tom - Photography
	Patricia Medina - Hairstylist
	Patricia Keighran - Makeup Designer
	Matt Fausak - Music Editor
	Sara Romilly - Post-Production Supervisor
	Jennifer Nash - Music Editor
	Andrew Robinson - Assistant Director
	CIS-Vancouver - Visual Effects Designer
	Mike Hancock - Makeup
	Jakub Pazera - Animation
	Steve Corbett - Animation
	Saints LA - Visual Effects Designer
	Ernest Borgnine - Co-Star
	Tony Desantis - Co-Star
	Emily Kuroda - Co-Star
	Robert Schwentke - Director

Variety
"[A]n amusing, lightfooted caper about a team of aging CIA veterans rudely forced out of retirement." 09/29/2010

Los Angeles Times
"Mirren is most at ease in her role, handling her lines with aplomb and firing automatic weapons like she means it." 10/15/2010

Movieline
"RED mixes high and low with a mad chemist's abandon....RED is given a hyper- and yet imaginatively stylized treatment by director Robert Schwentke..." 10/13/2010

A.V. Club
"[T]his is a capable, experienced cast with extensive acting chops..." -- Grade: B- 10/14/2010

Hollywood Reporter
"[W]hat keeps the movie going is the gameness of the cast, some of whom strike a perfect balance between self-consciousness and credulity." 10/19/2010

Wall Street Journal
"Ms. Parker is a graceful comedienne, and it's no news that Mr. Willis is a past master of delicate -- yes, delicate -- self-irony, so their characters generate welcome fizz in the course of a fraught relationship." 10/15/2010

Empire
3 stars out of 5 -- "Over 20 years since DIE HARD, Bruce Willis is still playing that guy -- sardonic, wisecracking, good at killing -- and it works a treat." 10/22/2010

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "Willis and Parker make an appealing couple, the latter's neurotic energy fueling possibly the best onscreen partnership Willis has had since Moonlighting." 10/01/2010

Sight and Sound
"[I]t is Helen Mirren, as the demure Victoria Winslow, who is the real casting coup." 12/01/2010

Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "THE EXPENDABLES proved it was profitable to assemble veteran stars....RED offers similar fare, though with a distinctly higher acting caliber." 03/01/2011

The Arizona Republic 7 of 10
"Red" isn't a great movie, but it's great fun, and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, you take things too seriously... you won't get far trying to figure it all out - plausibility isn't a prerequisite, given the source material - but you'll have fun watching the characters try to. Willis' career now evidently consists of looking bemused and making occasional wisecracks. He does that well here. Freeman, of course, is stately and solid. Malkovich is even more over-the-top than usual; director Robert Schwentke wouldn't have hurt things by reining him in a bit. Mirren always is a delight. - Bill Goodykoontz

The Charlotte Observer 8 of 10
"Red," is one of those rare action comedies that actually delivers action and comedy, and one where the alleged humor doesn't consist merely of wisecracking heroes blowing away cardboard villains. In fact, it meets the requirements of its genre so beautifully that I kept waiting for it to take a risk and go beyond traditional boundaries, which it never does. I felt like a diner who'd expected a burger, thought he detected the smell of a steak being grilled in the kitchen, then got a burger after all - but a fat, juicy one. - Lawrence Toppman