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.
Good fun, and though it breathes hard in the second half, the ensemble has charisma to spare.
After a promising start the result veers into B-minus territory.
The grating self-satisfaction of everything!
Ignore the daft plot and enjoy a fun action romp with a first-rate cast.
It's very silly and runs out of steam well before the end, though there are one or two gags.
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.
Fun, though, and memorable for Helen Mirren elegantly firing a belt-fed machine-gun in a long white ballgown.
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.
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.
Retrograde and extremely dull.
The first-rate cast lends this hodgepodge of clichés more class than it deserves.
This is painting by numbers for people who have trouble with mental arithmetic.
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.
Helen Mirren interview
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