RED

A friend of my wife that this was a " great " movie so she got it from Netflix and we watched it last night. The movie was not a keeper. It was very close to being a movie that I stopped about 20 minutes in. As we had my wife's sister here and she and her son were watching the movie as well we did not.

The premise is that Bruce Willis a retired CIA agent who has been labeled RED or Retired, Extremely Dangerous. Assassins in great number come after Willis who of course escapes. Earlier in the movie we see that Willis has gained an attraction to a Customer Service Rep at his pension office, we see him ripping the checks up as he states his has not arrived.

Eventually his CSR friend, played by Mary Louise Parker becomes his unwilling accomplice, and later love interest. Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich play parts in Willis'a adventure. Freeman played his universal character these days it seems, patriarchal, aging, dying friend to all.

Malkovich however is in his element here. Playing a crazy conspiracy theorist he explodes in his role and if there were an award for over the top but right on performances in bad movies he would win.

He alone is worth sitting through much of the silliness of this movie.