red (2010)

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Retired and extremely dangerous (RED). That's what CIA retirees are termed by the CIA when they have been involved in highly sensitive missions and operations that when leaked to the public, will create national disaster. Bruce Willis played as Frank, a CIA retiree who was enjoying life by talking to a pension agent Sarah when he was suddenly attacked in his home by armed troops. He kidnapped Sarah thinking that she will also be a target (although he tried to explain the situation to her but it all seemed surreal to her ). Frank enlisted the help of his former CIA friends which are also now retirees Joe (Morgan Freeman), Marvin (John Malkovich), and Victoria (Helen Mirren). Together they uncovered the reason why they suddenly became targets of CIA itself and they did this while fighting off the attacks led by ambitious CIA Agent Cooper (Karl Urban). Although Bruce Willis' acting here was not very much worth-praising, I still enjoyed this movie a lot. First and last, because of John Malkovich's and Hellen Mirren's characters which were really amusing and funny! The plot was common and ordinary but Malkovich as always-over-the-edge and suspicious Marvin (to the point of being psychotically paranoid) and Mirren as top shooter and killer assassin-who-likes-flowers-and-baking, made this movie worth watching for me. I personally loved Malkovich here, he's really a great actor.