Synopsis
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.
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Cast
- Bruce WillisFrank Moses
- John MalkovichMarvin Boggs
- Mary-Louise ParkerSarah Ross
- Anthony HopkinsBailey
- Helen MirrenVictoria
- Catherine Zeta-JonesKatja
- Lee Byung-hunHan Cho Bai
- David ThewlisThe Frog
- Brian CoxIvan
- Neal McDonoughJack Horton
Recommendations
- 67
The A.V. Club
Like its predecessor, it’s a one-joke movie; the difference is that this time around, the joke is better. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Red 2 goes down easily, from Marvin’s demented moments of relationship advice to Dame Helen’s tender and amusing “Hitchcock” reunion with Sir Anthony. There’s a knowing twinkle in their eyes, and in everybody else’s. “Yeah, we could’ve done a Bond film,” they seem to wink. “And it would’ve been a bloody fun one, at that.” - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Not that it isn’t entertaining, but the film's premise is certainly well past its “use by” date, resulting in another passably palatable sequel distinguished by a lack of narrative and stylistic coherence that could potentially underpin a really viable franchise. - 60
Variety
While Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, et al. are still good for a few chuckles as a gang of superannuated government assassins, this globe-trotting action-comedy diversion applies a bigger-is-better philosophy across the board, upping the stakes, the firepower and the travel budget, but keeping real thrills and laughs at a modest trickle. - 50
Village Voice
Red 2, disappointing in so many ways, isn't torture to watch, in part because Mirren has even more to do than she did in the first installment. - 50
Boston Globe
A sequel that has some snappy interplay, typically courtesy of Malkovich, but mostly feels like a cast working to manufacture what came naturally the first time. - 50
Austin Chronicle
It’s all supremely silly stuff, and amusingly so, as long as you don’t stop to think about all those blameless officers and agents cut down in the line of mindless entertainment. - 50
Chicago Tribune
My favorite thing in the movie is the way co-star and Korean action icon Byung Hun Lee uses his feet of fury to hoist a paint can and send it flying.
