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Red


The critical consensus

More playful than The Expendables, more charming than The Losers, Willis and co deliver a warm – and fun – actioner that benefits greatly from its seasoned cast.

***(*)(*)Aubrey Day, 01/10/2010

Good fun, and though it breathes hard in the second half, the ensemble has charisma to spare.

***(*)(*)Angie Errigo, Empire Online, 18/10/2010

After a promising start the result veers into B-minus territory.

**(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 21/10/2010

The grating self-satisfaction of everything!

**(*)(*)(*)Antonia Quirke, Financial Times, 20/10/2010

Ignore the daft plot and enjoy a fun action romp with a first-rate cast.

Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 21/10/2010

It's very silly and runs out of steam well before the end, though there are one or two gags.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 21/10/2010

The movie doesn’t have a funny bone in its body, clomping from one unoriginal set piece to the next with a head-scratching lack of urgency.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 21/10/2010

Fun, though, and memorable for Helen Mirren elegantly firing a belt-fed machine-gun in a long white ballgown.

***(*)(*)John Walsh, The Independent, 22/10/2010

Its silliness becomes wearisome the longer it continues, but I found it as entertaining as, say, Clint Eastwood’s Space Cowboys, and could happily sit through it again.

***(*)(*)Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 21/10/2010

Even the senior citizen angle could have been fun had the film-makers done something with it instead of assuming that the concept and the cast alone were enough to see the film through.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 23/10/2010

Retrograde and extremely dull.

**(*)(*)(*)David Edwards, Daily Record, 22/10/2010

The first-rate cast lends this hodgepodge of clichés more class than it deserves.

***(*)(*)Paul Dale, The List, 22/10/2010

This is painting by numbers for people who have trouble with mental arithmetic.

Philip French, The Observer, 24/10/2010

It feels as if RED has been made five or six times already this year – and it's taken this long to get it right.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 24/10/2010


Features about Red

Action heroes: Retirement is for wimps

Warren Ellis, The Guardian, 21/10/2010

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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