Red 2: older and wiser

This is weird, the day before I caught the opening of Red 2, I was watching GI Joe Retaliation, with both Bruce Willis and Lee Byung Hun. However, Joe was a total letdown. Tonight, I saw both of them sharing the same screen again. But the movie was way way way better.



For those who are still not familiar with the franchise, Red talks about the adventure of a retired spy, Frank Moses and his gang of spy friends from all over the intelligent network over the world. Red 2 basically share the same premise. The story is rather expected, and filled with holes that may even defy logic. However, we are here not to watch the story but to have fun. Frank again was force to run when his name and Marvin (John Malkovich) was implicated in a disclosure of a classified document in the net, similar to wikileak. Thus, they ran to London, Moscow and back to London for more adventure to discover who is the one who frame them and what is behind the whole supposedly weapon of mass destruction. To complicated matters, US government hired the assasin Byung Hun while London hired Mirren to take Willis down. However, no surprise there, they all became allies against a common enemy. Did I mention the whole story got so much hole that the numbers of hole beat the number of bulletholes in the whole movie? Yeah, probably I did.



Minus the fact the story is rather stale and predictable, on the other hand, it is really fun to watch all the veteran actors and actress sharing the same screen, and the chemistry is awesome. Forget about character development, we are here to watch all these retirees shoot bullets. And do bodies drop down like flies. The script is really funny while in the same time, do not sound stupid. For those who crave action, the shooting, the fights and the car chase is adequate though not the best. It does have its moment, totally love the slo-mo scene involving Mirren and Byung Hun shooting in a car chase, although it is a direct rip-off scene from the first movie. Despite the age, all of them actually look stylish in their own ways.



Finally, embracing my age do make my appreciate this movie more. Overall, it is a really fun movie, and sometimes, that is the reason why we watch movies: to have fun.

ratings: 3 half poink!
comments: irony, the staff behind the counter actually ask for my IC before selling me my movie ticket. Uh?!!