Film review: RED 2, from Built For Speed

The novelty of Red was that the gun-totin’, fist-fightin’ action stars, Bruce Willis, John Malcovich and Helen Mirren were all well past 50.  This casting lent some senior-citizen empowerment, sophistication and philosophical reflection to the testosterone-fuelled world of the action movie.  Red was still pretty silly and implausible but it was clever enough to stand out from the usual action

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