The Filthy Critic looks at RED

The Filthy Critic looks at RED

"RED is the same story as several other crappy movies from earlier this summer: The Expendables; The Losers; and The A-Team. Whatever software unimaginative screenwriters use to generate plots must have a glitch in it because every hack got the premise of a ragtag band of former military operatives who must rebel against their superiors to save their lives/reputations/friends. This time the premise is no more clever, no less derivative, and every bit as mindlessly violent. The difference is RED has older people in it, and the corny one-liners are about being old instead of being homoerotic."

He's right, by the way. I saw the movie this weekend. The cast is fine, but the script is strictly by-the-numbers, and the film doesn't have a single original moment, or even a surprising one. I have no idea how such a tired movie could have received a 71% positive score at RT and a 7.7 at IMDb. I didn't hate the film and Filthy did (I guess), but of all the reviews I read, Filthy's was the one which came closest to describing how I felt about it.

I did enjoy seeing ancient Ernie Borgnine looking chipper. (He turns 94 in January.)