Review: Red

[seriousfic]

Trailers - Drive Angry looks like it could be fun, but mostly because Agent Mahone plays Death or something. It looks like he goes around snarking and killing people. Relevant to my interests. Fair Game looks like it might be slightly less realistic than the part of Black Dynamite where the hero fights Richard Nixon with nunchucks.

So, good movie. I actually thought it improved on the source material, which was just typical Warren Ellis spy stuff wanking. It kinda begs the question of why they bothered to adapt this from that... this has about as much to do with Ellis' writing as it does Two And A Half Men, so you'd think they could save some money and just think up their own title. But anyway, as a premise, it's a good excuse to have fun old character actors crowding the screen instead of, say, Paul Walker (although Karl Urban as the requisite young whippersnapper antagonist makes good). And Mary-Louise Parker makes a surprisingly good love interest, smart, resourceful, and quickly coming to enjoy all the wild shenanigans she's being dragged through. If Doctor Who needs a MILF companion, she has my vote.

If you liked The A-Team and/or The Losers, this'll probably be up your alley. If you don't know who Brian Cox is, you may want to sit this one out.

Comments

[geonncannon.livejournal.com]

I think the movie was a lot like The A-Team meets what the Expendables was supposed to be. If it had been Arnold in Morgan Freeman's role, and Jason Statham in Malkovich's, and Jet Li instead of Karl Urban... you see what I mean. :) But it was a great movie. Really enjoyable, if a touch long. :)

[colonel-green.livejournal.com]

My favourite parts were the interactions between Bruce Willis and Mary-Louise Parker - they were a fun, interesting pairing.