“What
happens in the Kremlin stays in the Kremlin!”
Not
very often do movie sequels work out. It is very rare that they are good let
alone better than the first one. Red 2
is one of those rare movies that is even better than the first. It takes all
the fun exciting elements of the first Red
and turns them up ten notches.
Frank
Moses (Bruce Willis) is enjoying his nice quiet retired life with his
girlfriend Sarah (Mary- Louise Parker) strolling through Costco when his old
friend Marvin (John Malkovich) finds him. Marvin brings up the fact that Frank
has not killed anyone in months. Frank likes that fact though, he is not
looking for a fight or to kill anyone. Meanwhile, Sarah seems to be the one who
wants all the excitement back in her life she seems to be bored in the quiet
life. Marvin tells Frank that information leaked about an old Cold War weapon
called Nightshade and their names are mentioned in the information.
Their
lives soon get turned upside down when Marvin “dies”. As Frank and Sarah leave
the church Frank is taken in by federal agents. He is taken to a facility where
he is being interrogated. While Frank is being interrogated a man named Jack
Horton (Neal McDonough) comes storming through the building with a group of
operatives who are looking to take Frank out. Of course Frank manages to escape
and gets to Marvin (who is not dead he just faked his own death) and Sarah.
As
this is happening a hit is put on Frank’s life and the person sent to kill him
is a Korean assassin named Han Cho Bai who has a big time grudge against Frank.
In
London, people are also after Victoria (Helen Mirren). MI6 rings her and tells
her she has been assigned to kill Frank. She in turns rings up Frank and tells
him about the hit.
Frank,
Marvin and Sarah travel to Paris to question a weapons dealer nicknamed The
Frog. In Paris Frank comes across an old flame named Katja (Catherine
Zeta-Jones). Katja is a Russian and she and Frank have a romantic as well as enemy
relationship. Sarah is not thrilled when she sees how hypnotized Frank is by
Katja and is constantly asking if they can kill Katja.
The
team eventually finds out that the Nightshade weapon was developed by a man
named Dr. Edward Bailey (Anthony Hopkins). He has been in an asylum for
thirty-two years by MI6. Frank, Sarah, and Victoria bust him out. Bailey tells
them his weapon that had been lost in Russia is hidden beneath the Kremlin.
When they get the weapon they find out that Bailey was locked away because he
wanted to activate the weapon not, as they had been told, because he was crazy.
The
cast is once again brilliant. And once again Mary-Louise Parker and John
Malkovich steal the entire movie. Parker I was dying laughing with, again,
because of her facial expressions they were so hilarious. I loved how jealous
Sarah was with Katja and Parker just knocked those scenes out. Her funniest
scene was at the end… and that is all I will say because it is too funny to
give away. Helen Mirren I enjoyed more here than in the first one because she
was just completely bad ass. She shot off more guns and killed more people than
the first time. One of her first scenes was her cleaning up two dead bodies she
had made and then destroying them in her hotel bathroom in the bathtub by
dowsing them with chemicals and all without batting an eye. That is an awesome
bitch in my eyes. Catherine Zeta- Jones is not in the movie for very long which
is a shame because she and Bruce Willis worked very well together in their
scenes. I hate seeing Neal McDonough as a bad guy but he was very good. I always
enjoy seeing him in things. Anthony Hopkins was alright he did not make too
much of an impression on me.
From
beginning to the end of Red 2 I was
laughing and immensely entertained. Red 2
had a perfect balance of action, comedy, and drama. It is just all around a
very well made movie from the acting, writing, direction, action to just
everything. I highly suggest seeing this movie especially if you need to let go
and have a good laugh.
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