Amidst all of the movies I was looking forward to seeing this year (Man of Steel, G.I. Joe 2, Thor 2, etc.), there’s one that fell off my radar: Red 2.
I’m not sure why I forgot all about this one, but I did. I enjoyed the first one.
Red was about a group of retired special agents who were trying to be taken out of action permanently.
Red 2 is every bit as hilarious as the first one.
Within the first 10 minutes of the movie, I was laughing out loud. So was the rest of the theatre.
It’d been a while since I’d seen Red, so I’d forgotten a good deal of the specifics of that movie. Thankfully, you don’t need to know much about Red in order to enjoy Red 2.
There’s some typical action movie scenes, including car chases, sneaking into a high-security government facility, and explosions. Somehow it didn’t feel like it was ‘been there, done that’ though.Just like in Red, this time around the characters find themselves dodging bullets (literally) and trying to avoid several enemies.
They’re also trying to clear their names after a WikiLeaks type of situation occurs. A document is published online, people start shooting at Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and Marvin Boggs (John Maklovich).