When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Even the more cartoonish performances, like John Malkovich's acid-damaged paranoiac, fit the movie's vision of the vanished, wild-and-woolly heyday of spycraft.
80
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
Red isn't a great movie, but it's great fun, and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, you take things too seriously.
It's a lot of fun and, because of the high quality of the cast, there's no need to feel guilty about praising such an inherently silly motion picture.
75
Movieline
Michelle Orange
The result is like a sugar rush after a visit to the vintage candy store.
70
Variety
Justin Chang
Only a curmudgeon could entirely resist the laid-back charms of Red, an amusing, light-footed caper about a team of aging CIA veterans rudely forced out of retirement.