Friday, September 13, 2013

Red 2 (2013)

Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

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Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber 

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Story:

A second helping of the retirees' action thriller – the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel of shoot-em-ups, if you will. Bruce Willis once again leads the line, surrounded by a game, if not always entirely convincing, crew of (mostly) major-league thespians: John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox. Willis is Frank Moses, jerked all-too-willingly out of domestic bliss with his former CIA phone contact (Mary Louise Parker); soon he finds himself on the trail of a nuclear weapon hidden somewhere in Moscow. Like the first one, it's played for laughs in-between bouts of mayhem; most of the gags are off-target, though Mirren's Nancy Mitfordesque assassin gets a pretty good kill ratio.


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Summary:


Malkovitch and Willis a new comedy action team as good as Gibson and Glover in Lethal Weapon, but more action, more co-stars, more stunts and more fun. I loved this movie, as good as the first part. Not enough for 5 stars, but almost a ....






Box Office:


Domestic Total as of Sep. 11, 2013: $52,483,860
Distributor: Lionsgate/SummitRelease Date: July 19, 2013
Genre: Action ComedyRuntime: 1 hrs. 56 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13Production Budget: $84 million


Reverences:

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www.theguardian.com
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