Too much of everything

That was an excellent one.

Simply Perfect

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Let me start by saying that I love this film so much.I was lucky enough to catch this one in theaters with a buddy, unlike the first, which I only got to see on DVD, which I now own both.Frank and his team must stop a shadowy conspiracy from finding and using Night-Shade,with the help of a wacky ex agent,who is the inventor of the mysterious weapon.Overall, a great action-comedy with a good cast and a well written story, and I think a Superior follow up to the original. I give it a 7.4/10. More action, more laughs, more thrills. It's a real good time, I highly recommend it.

Red 2 was not as good as the original.Tone is not quite as playful, and this time around, the score is generic and off, the cinematography is over-stylized for no good reason, and the editing is rushed and inconsistent.The characters are still great, and the performances are solid. Everyone here is doing their best to make it as fun as the first time around, but the style and direction really make it hard to engage with them.This one did have some good fight scenes and a pretty good aerial chase and there is some travel to interesting locations, as well. The first 20 minutes are pretty great in general too, and overall, it's not a bad movie by any stretch. Just not a very good one either, and certainly disappointing considering how refreshing the first RED was.If this movie were under a completely different name, I may have given it a better rating.

Even though Red was an interesting and innovating film, Red 2 fells sort, with chewed up plot and few twists. The main theme, apart from finding the bomb, is the romantic relationship between the main two characters and the emotional problems they are facing. However, I found it hard to believe that there was any chemistry at all between them. The constant changing of the costume grew to become tiring at some point and the show up \ show off of the characters, not to mention the comic book like sequences, were a minus for the film. Some sub plots were silly, like the one with the Korean assassin. I mean, he turned out to be a good guy, but if he was that lethal, then how on earth did Frank managed to fight him off by himself? So, 2 out of 10, because even the performances weren't convincing enough.

Any movie that has to deal with super-spies will show them as being fearless, cracking jokes in the face of danger, unbeatable in hand to hand combat, expert marksmen with weapons of all kinds and brilliant when deducing or cutting apart a plan by the bad guys. When you add a wrinkle to this unrealistic scenario, that is where you can sell movie tickets. Whether it's gender ("Salt," "Tomb Raider," etc.) or race, people will pay attention(as long as they are surrounded by enough white men and a white man is their boss. "Red 2" is about the people who have quit the spy business but who are being hunted because they represent a threat because of their skill set. This bit of realism is then qualified by the fact that they are all elderly – but, as the myth of white supremacy would have it, appear to not have lost a step in their physicality, their virility when it comes to interest in sex, or their mentality when it comes to snappy one-liners and figuring out the method of operation of the bad guys. At the end of the movie, as a sign of a divine example of disrespect, the $4 jet that belonged to the Asian member of the contingent is blown up when Bruce Willis switches a case that had a bomb in it. All the Asian can say is, "You blew up my plane." Willis sarcastically says something like, "I'll pay you back," and just like that, the issue is over and resolved. Such arrogance!