They meet Singer, and he explains that his job on the Guatemala mission was to carry a passenger in the middle of the night, for unknown reasons. Marvin then briefly holds a random bystander hostage, and he might be juuuuuuuuust a little unstable. Now, we head to Mobile, Alabama to catch up with Singer ( James Remar), the only living person on the list. Because I know it’s gonna be some crazy weapon. I can’t wait to find out what the pig is. My MK Ultra senses are tingling, and Marvin retrieves a file detailing a case in Guatemala from 1981, in which Frank, Marvin, and everybody else on the hit list was involved. Turns out Marvin was given doses of LSD every day for 11 years while working for the government, which made him understandably paranoid. He lives underground in a bunker whose entrance is a broken-down car, and I love it a lot. An extremely effective black ops agent in his day, the now older Frank’s been marked “RED,” or “retired, extremely dangerous.”įLORIDA! There, we meet the paranoid and flighty Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), who lives in the swamps of Pensacola trying not to get killed. He goes to visit the Record Keeper (Ernest Borgnine), who gives Cooper the mostly redacted case file of Frank Moses. He was already dying of liver cancer, but he sadly was assassinated by a mysterious assailant.Īnyway, back to Cooper. ![]() ![]() However, tempered with that, we get some unfortunate news. They discover that everyone on the list is dead except for a Gabriel Singer. There, they meet the mother of the NYT reporter killed, and discover clues that lead them to the NYU library, and a book with a hitlist hidden within it. Frank sets up Cooper to get arrested by the local police, and escapes with Sarah to New York City. ![]() A fake cop nearly kidnaps her, but Frank saves her. Sarah escapes, and calls 911, a call which was intercepted by Cooper. Using his connections, they discover that the hit quad after Frank also killed a reporter. After Frank drops off Sarah at a motel (still kidnapped, remember), he goes to meet Joe Matheson ( Morgan Freeman), another retired agent living at a retirement home, with his… He’s playing William Cooper, a CIA agent tasked to kill Frank. We now cut to an opulent estate, where The Butcher/Executioner/Judge Dredd Karl Urban is killing a man. Good start, building trust, establishing boundaries, good start. She freaks out (appropriate reaction), as he warns that people are trying to kill her, because they know how he feels about her via their (likely surveilled) phone conversations. Frank takes on the rest, the house collapses, and he makes his way to Kansas City…directly into Sarah’s apartment. Not very subtle, huh? I feel like the neighbors know what’s going on at this point. He handily takes them and turns the tables, then goes into the basement to prepare. But, see, it turns out that Frank’s ex-CIA. The two decide to meet up in Kansas City, where she works.īut no time for that, as a group of masked assailants invade Frank’s house to kill him. Sarah Ross is most likely the Inevitable Love Interest of this film. R.E.D.is definitely an interesting movie as action-comedies go, but let’s get into it, shall we? SPOILERS AHEAD, as a warning heading forward! Recapįrank Moses ( Bruce Willis) is a retiree living in suburbia, reading romance novels, and calling Sarah Ross ( Mary Louise Parker), a girl working in the GSA pension office. None of them particularly well-known for comedy, and that’s handled in a surprising way. ![]() But ere we go, here’s the list of stars:īruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox, Richard Dreyfuss, Ernest Borgnine, James Remar. Rather than purely action or comedy stars, they’re kind of all over the genre map. Nowadays, superhero films tend to be our ensembles, as well as some other action films that I’ll get to later this month.īut in today’s case, the ensemble is different. Don’t know HOW…but I WILL.Īnyway, what do I mean by the ensemble? It’s a cast composed of many big names, especially those famous or popular at the time the film is made. It’s only grown over the years, and I WILL get into this one day. I cannot properly explain how much I love this movie. That would be 1963′s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. I’ll talk about this more during Comedy April, but one of my favorite comedies is an ensemble comedy. Time to continue the action-comedy trend by getting away from the buddy cop trend, and hitting a different style of comedy: the ensemble.
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