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Alynda Wheat, People: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...watchable.... isn't nearly spoofy enough, turning into a wan, predictable caper half an hour before the final credits. By the end we're ready for 'Red' to fade to black." (Read the full review...) 137 words, 10/14/10 Richard Corliss, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...the subgenre has been given a name: the geriaction picture. These films aren't sequels; they're creakquels. Not the 'A-Team' but the Gray Team.... enjoyable if low-aiming... modest enjoyment..." (Read the full review...) 771 words, 10/15/10 David Germain, Associated Press: MODERATE (cg) "...latest adaptation of a hip graphic novel fails to fill in the spaces between the action with anything terribly interesting.... aims for a mix of action and comedy but never quite delivers on either. The action is OK..." (Read the full review...) 650 words, 10/14/10 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "The plot is hopelessly nonsensical, but the brisk pace and sly jokes make it an overachiever. Of course, a wily and highly skilled cast help too." (Read the full review...) 63 words, 10/14/10 Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...essentially a 111-minute excuse to give Helen Mirren a machine gun. In that, it succeeds, but any other success comes purely from the game cast of veterans..." (Read the full review...) 264 words, 10/15/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "...uneven humor, half-baked plot and generic action scenes keep 'RED' from being much fun. If the story made more sense and the humor were more abundant, this could have been a bona-fide winner.... forgettably mediocre." (Read the full review...) 531 words, 10/15/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: MODERATE (cg) "...neither a good movie nor a bad one. It features actors we like doing things we wish were more interesting." (Read the full review...) 601 words, 10/14/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an enjoyable-but-forgettable late year action/comedy - the kind of thing one might bypass in the theater, recognizing that the multiplex is just a brief stop on the movie's road to DVD." (Read the full review...) 1,008 words, 10/12/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "The story is not much, and the action sequences are the usual thudding, scrambling displays of heavy weaponry and physically improbable derring-do.... It is possible to have a good time at 'RED,' but it is not a very good movie." (Read the full review...) 894 words, 10/15/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: VERY GOOD (cg) "Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman age like fine wine as retired spies." (Read the full review...) 289 words, 10/15/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...a film that's too pleased with itself for too little reason.... the problem is not that it lacks puckish charm, it's that there is too little of it to go around." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 10/15/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...much of it is smart... as zippy on its feet as a third-grader." (Read the full review...) 631 words, 10/15/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) " 'RED' stands for 'Retired, Extremely Dangerous,' though 'Reasonably Entertaining Diversion' works too. For an hour or so, this PG-13 adaptation of a far grislier graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner strikes an engagingly sadistic tone." (Read the full review...) 606 words, 10/15/10 John Anderson, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an all-star game of espionage, sardonic humor and large-bore destruction." (Read the full review...) 582 words, 10/15/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE (cg) "...neither a good movie nor a bad one. It features actors we like doing things we wish were more interesting." (Read the full review...) 601 words, 10/14/10 Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Not the best. Not the worst. Just the classiest -- Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich and Brian Cox and Richard Dreyfuss) can spruce up any pulp.... absolutely, thoroughly enjoyable." (Read the full review...) 827 words, 10/13/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It's a hoot to watch the elegant Mirren shift from high heels to combat boots, as she gamely goes from arranging flowers to being locked and loaded." (Read the full review...) 546 words, 10/16/10 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "Clever casting, but this spy spoof gets old." (Read the full review...) 580 words, 10/15/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "As all-star action romps go, 'Red' doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything, but it's a lot more fun than 'The Expendables.' " (Read the full review...) 124 words, 10/14/10
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...joins a long and mostly undistinguished line of recent movies whose upper-middle-aged stars play AARP members who refuse to go gently into genteel cinematic dotage.... gets into a cool, sophisticated swing." (Read the full review...) 440 words, 10/15/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...has the cool, swaggering vibe of an action movie where the actors and the audience know that nothing is really on the line. And at a certain point... the whole movie runs out of gas." (Read the full review...) 419 words, 10/15/10 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Old people who kill people are so much cuter than young people who kill people, right?" (Read the full review...) 567 words, 10/15/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...four-Oscar-winners plus Bruce Willis. But despite that and a winning concept -- that somebody, maybe in government, is trying to kill off aged, retired CIA assassins -- director Robert 'Flightplan' Schwentke never lets this one achieve takeoff." (Read the full review...) 420 words, 10/15/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "...a spoofy comment on aging-boomer films... halfway between comedy and action, and it doesn't quite work as either." (Read the full review...) 377 words, 10/15/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "...isn't a great movie, but it's great fun, and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, you take things too seriously." (Read the full review...) 501 words, 10/15/10 Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...the latest in the recent string of movies that make a strong argument that old action heroes can kick just as much butt as the up-and-comers." (Read the full review...) 439 words, 10/15/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "Imagine! Retirees killing people instead of sitting on park benches and hanging out at the library!... What might have been a guilty-pleasure romp is hobbled by poor direction, sloppy pacing, and a story line that can't decide whether it's farce or a retread." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 10/15/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: EXCELLENT (cg) "We're smiling from the get-go because we're in the capable company of pros like Malkovich, Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren." (Read the full review...) 367 words, 10/15/10 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Casting of spry former spies is on target, even if the movie isn't. The film is based on a graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner. It's pretty silly, like a game of Chutes and Ladders with bullets flying everywhere, but everyone in it is terrific." (Read the full review...) 451 words, 10/15/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an expert blend of action and laughs." (Read the full review...) 255 words, 10/15/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...except for Malkovich, who shines as a lunatic acid casualty, the comedy consists of toothless bickering instead of sharp observations about age or espionage." (Read the full review...) 370 words, 10/15/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (cg) "...an average shoot-'em-up except for the wrinkled fingers pulling triggers.... wears its shawl proudly, with even Ernest Borgnine and Richard Dreyfuss popping in for career therapy. It's an amusing geriatric uprising..." (Read the full review...) 519 words, 10/14/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "You're never too old for mayhem." (Read the full review...) 524 words, 10/15/10 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...compared to such generic, flashy duds as 'Knight and Day' or 'The Expendables,' 'Red' goes down like a flute of fine champagne. Here's how it's done, youngsters." (Read the full review...) 583 words, 10/15/10
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Not the best. Not the worst. Just the classiest -- Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich and Brian Cox and Richard Dreyfuss) can spruce up any pulp.... absolutely, thoroughly enjoyable." (Read the full review...) 827 words, 10/13/10 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: MODERATE (cg) "...a disappointing amount of 'Red' limps along, failing to grapple with its own shifts in tone or to structure the action in a way that builds in any satisfying way.... doesn't quite have the juice, the skill or maybe even the nerve to make it sing." (Read the full review...) 581 words, 10/14/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "[A] good-natured, occasionally macabre, occasionally subversive entertainment.... It could all be one big cliché if not for the Oscar-rich cast." (Read the full review...) 465 words, 10/14/10 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...veers between high energy and low. There's a restrained cool in pretending that these characters are so capable that they never feel pressure or break a sweat, but if they aren't challenged, what's the point?" (Read the full review...) 379 words, 10/14/10 Nick Schager, Slant: POOR (cg) "...exhibits all the get-up-and-go of a grandpa on the verge of an afternoon nap.... this tepid tagline of a movie gets absolutely nothing right about its own premise." (Read the full review...) 703 words, 10/13/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "As all-star action romps go, 'Red' doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything, but it's a lot more fun than 'The Expendables.' " (Read the full review...) 124 words, 10/14/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "...the film doesn't build to anything surprising or interesting and the energy dissipates drastically. The pleasures of Mirren and massive weapons only take you so far." (Read the full review...) 565 words, 10/15/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) " 'Bite me, children, and go back to kindergarten,' Red sneers out gleefully. Hoorah!" (Read the full review...) 869 words, 10/14/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "The best part of 'Red' is the spectacle of terrific actors being terrific in novel ways." (Read the full review...) 743 words, 10/15/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "The story is not much, and the action sequences are the usual thudding, scrambling displays of heavy weaponry and physically improbable derring-do.... It is possible to have a good time at 'RED,' but it is not a very good movie." (Read the full review...) 894 words, 10/15/10 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...jovial and rejuvenating... The actors are seasoned enough to trample on the nonsense of the narrative and click into a busy comic rhythm." (Read the full review...) 447 words, 10/25/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...a film that's too pleased with itself for too little reason.... the problem is not that it lacks puckish charm, it's that there is too little of it to go around." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 10/15/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: WEAK "...simultaneously tries too hard and not hard enough: It keeps up a steady, frantic barrage of bullets, blood, and wisecracks, but never manages to convince us that anyone involved -- characters, actors, filmmakers or audience -- is having any fun." (Read the full review...) 586 words, 10/14/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Cynical, idiotic -- and a total blast." (Read the full review...) 528 words, 10/15/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: MODERATE "The jokes occasionally fall flat and the action scenes rarely sizzle, but only a curmudgeon could entirely resist the laid-back charms... goofy diversion gets by with a cast of pros who can steal a scene and wield semiautomatic weapons with seasoned aplomb." (Read the full review...) 980 words, 09/29/10 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...what keeps the movie going is the gameness of the cast, some of whom strike a perfect balance between self-consciousness and credulity.... The actual mechanics of the plot might eventually get so convoluted they have to be accepted on faith, but the spirit of 'Red' rarely falters." (Read the full review...) 439 words, 09/29/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: WEAK "...a film that's too pleased with itself for too little reason.... the problem is not that it lacks puckish charm, it's that there is too little of it to go around." (Read the full review...) 683 words, 10/15/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "Can a movie be enjoyable and entertaining without being really good?... Despite flaws in the storytelling and the rough transitions in the shifting of tone, benefits immensely from its highly accomplished all-star cast... The comedic elements are far more significant than the plot per se in naking 'Red' fun to watch." (Read the full review...) 985 words, 10/03/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: WEAK "The story is not much, and the action sequences are the usual thudding, scrambling displays of heavy weaponry and physically improbable derring-do.... It is possible to have a good time at 'RED,' but it is not a very good movie." (Read the full review...) 894 words, 10/15/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "The best part of 'Red' is the spectacle of terrific actors being terrific in novel ways." (Read the full review...) 743 words, 10/15/10
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