Review 1AA – Red 2

The Wife and I saw "Red 2" a coupla weeks or three ago, and she said I should tell y'all what I thought.

I liked "Red" the first better. Both movies were sorta in the "Expendables" vein – you know, that Sylvester Stallone pair of flicks about old mercenaries also released for summer '13?

In this one, the CIA (or somebody) needs ex-black ops superagent Bruce Willis, again retired, extremely dangerous (RED. Get it?) and his team to retrieve a portable WMA. Willis does a fair job, with just the right amount of smirk and wise-assedness.

And John "Nutcase" Malkovich (my nickname, not his) again almost steals the show as Willis's PARANOID (as opposed to calmly paranoid) buddy. But I really like Helen Mirren as a retired-but-still-keeping-her-trigger-finger-in-it assassin. She's so elegant-looking, and that plays wonderfully into her role.

For our ticket price, us guys get lotsa BOOMs, BANGs, KEE-RASHs and KAPOWs. Also, RATATATATATs and tires SQUEEEEALing. But the movie lacks something. I guess we've pretty much seen it already. The Wife liked it. I didn't think it was really needed....

I can't recall any language that leaped out at me, Moms. The violence, I don't know. I suppose it's not any worse than most video games. But there're probably other guys' movies out now with more kid appeal. "Pacific Rim," for example.

All in all, an adequate guys' movie. It gets 3 knuckle sandwiches, with just a dab of mustard.