Film Review – RED 2

2010’s “RED” was a disappointment. Gifted a premise with serious
action-comedy potential while surfing along an irresistible marketing
hook, the picture didn’t live up to expectations, losing its focus as
murky intrigue and overplotting gradually scooped the fun factor out of
the geriatric mayhem, rendering it strangely inert. “RED 2” is more of
the same mediocrity, though the antics are now emboldened by the
original’s promising box office performance. Out to dish up the same
watery stew of bullets and slapstick, the follow-up doesn’t achieve a
personality of its own as it madly dashes to cover the same terrain as
the earlier effort, only here the noise has been dialed up and co-star
John Malkovich has been instructed to go full ham. This is not progress.
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