by Miguel Concepcion, October 16, 2010
Films such as Taken and The Expendables have proven there’s a market for action films of a geriatric persuasion. It would seem inevitable for a studio to try and up the ante with considerable Academy and Emmy award nominated muscle. With Red, you’ve got Helen Mirren, Ernest Borgnine, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Dryfuss (that’s three Academy Award winners by the way). Even the Bourne trilogy’s Brian Cox and Karl Urban are in this, and of course there is Bruce Willis to help fill the multiplexes.
The film starts in endearing fashion as Willis’ character, Frank Moses, spends his dull suburban retirement lifestyle nursing his crush on Sarah, a pension services rep who is equally bored in a cubicle where the wallpaper is made up postcards from places she would love to travel to. Of course Sarah does get what she wishes for, although it does come with some unexpected bondage. That is because Frank’s CIA past has come to haunt him in the form of a bullet-riddled shower on his house. Specialist that he is, he knows that whoever is after him knows about Sarah, so naturally he kidnaps her. In trying to figure out his assailants’ motivations, he meets up with his former covert ops colleagues, all played convincingly by Freeman, Malkovich and Mirren.
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