Movie Review: RED

How many star stunned movies where there this year? There was Grown Ups, which had a legendary comedy cast, but not legendary comedy quality, there was also The Expendables, which was a strong action movie that had a cast to match the quality of the movie, there was Due Date, which was the best comedy of the year, and now there is a new member of this group called RED, which brings together a legendary action cast starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malcovich, and Helen Merrin, but is RED as good as the other star stunned movies this year?

RED is about a retired CIA agent named Frank Moses, who is filed for assassination due to knowing valuable secrets about the CIA, so he brings back his old team in order to survive, and to stop the CIAs plans to assassinate Moses and his team, but in order to do that, they need break into the CIA's top secret headquarters and try to uncover one of the biggest cover-ups in CIA and US government history.

First of all, RED had a story that gave it allot of potential to be a great action movie, but what would potential be if the movie didn't live up to it? The answer is simple, the movie would be in many factors weak if it did not live up to it's potential, and that problem went with RED, it had allot of potential to be a great movie, but it unfortionetly wasn't.

RED is mainly divided to two halfs, the first half, which goes through the first hour of the movie, was very weak, the action was really nothing special, they only scored two or three jokes out of twenty or twenty five jokes, and the story felt like it was going nowhere, but the second half of the movie, which goes through the second hour of the movie, was very entertaining, the action was huge, most of the jokes where pulled off strongly, and the story actually felt like it was building up, therefore making the action seem more reasonable, making the characters develop in a stronger pattern, and it generally lifted the movie into going into a more positive direction.

RED was one of those movies that are commented on doing "too little too late" because the second half of the movie actually felt like it was going somewhere, unlike the first half of the movie which tried too hard to entertain by putting in allot of action that was familiar in allot of movies, and a handful of unfunny jokes, so overall I think the movie would be considered as a passable movie compared to all the movies out there, but compared to the talent that is has on set, it should have done allot better than what it did.

*Movie Rating:-

-Acting(out of 6)= 5

-Story(out of 8)= 4

-Plot(out of 8)= 4

-Actions(out of 6)= 4

-Effects(out of 4)=  4

-Character Developement(out of 8)=  4

*Overall Rating(out of 40)=  25

3 Stars

*Rating System:

0-7= 0 Stars

8-14= 1 Star

15-21= 2 Stars

22-30= 3 Stars

30-35= 4 Stars
36-40= 5 Stars