Storyline
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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Cast
John Malkovich, Neal McDonough, Bruce Willis, Adam Shaw, Brian Cox, Georg Nikoloff, David Thewlis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lee Byung-hun, Helen Mirren, Andrew Byron, Tim Pigott-Smith, Anthony Hopkins, Bentley Kalu, Lee Asquith-Coe, Tom Wu, Robert Davide, Mary-Louise Parker, Vlasta Vrána, Steven Berkoff, Mitchell Mullen, Garrick Hagon, Tristan D. Lalla, Emilio Doorgasingh, Wahab Sheikh, Neve Gachev, George Georgiou, Paul Hopkins, Michael Vardian, Jong Kun Lee, Martin Sims, Khalid Laith, David Papava, Dan Jeannotte, Aleksandar Mikić, Vincent Hoss-Desmarais, Nathalie Buscombe, Tony Pritchard, Kirris Riviere, Tom Hodgkins, Emma Heming, Moe Jeudy-Lamour, Penny Bunton, Nathan Wiley, Eric Davis, Alexandre Gorchkov, Michael Hearn, Sandra Lavoie, Rebecca Croll, Bianca Bellange, Kevin Woodhouse, Terry Maguire, Xavier Laurent, Sherif Eltayeb, Alan Grice, Thomas Thoroe, Yo Santhaveesuk, Waj Ali, Tony Smith, James Jaysen Bryhan, Philip Arditti
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Reviews
67
Like its predecessor, it’s a one-joke movie; the difference is that this time around, the joke is better.
63
Red 2 goes down easily, from Marvin’s demented moments of relationship advice to Dame Helen’s tender and amusing “Hitchcock” reunion with Sir Anthony. There’s a knowing twinkle in their eyes, and in everybody else’s. “Yeah, we could’ve done a Bond film,” they seem to wink. “And it would’ve been a bloody fun one, at that.”
60
Not that it isn’t entertaining, but the film's premise is certainly well past its “use by” date, resulting in another passably palatable sequel distinguished by a lack of narrative and stylistic coherence that could potentially underpin a really viable franchise.
60
While Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, et al. are still good for a few chuckles as a gang of superannuated government assassins, this globe-trotting action-comedy diversion applies a bigger-is-better philosophy across the board, upping the stakes, the firepower and the travel budget, but keeping real thrills and laughs at a modest trickle.
50
Village Voice
Red 2, disappointing in so many ways, isn't torture to watch, in part because Mirren has even more to do than she did in the first installment.
