RED Review

      RED is a movie I have been hoping to see for a long time. I finally rented it with the high hopes that I would find a funny and action packed block buster worth quoting and watching a few times over. RED certainly was a good movie, filled with tons of enjoyable scenes. Who wouldn't want to watch Bruce Willis step effortlessly out of a car as it spun donuts around a crowded street and immediately start blasting away at a government assassin? Or see Helen Mirren smirk as she mows down a big black SUV with a humongous .50 caliber machine gun. Though this movie was filled with some fantastic scenes, the story itself was a little flat. Its not that it wasn't a good plot to support tremendous action sequences. It's just the fact that the director tries to make us care to much for the story, but what we really grow to care for is the action. And I think that in this movie, there could have been a little more of it. As said before, the story is substantial enough for an action movie, but it often becomes slow, unimportant, and hard to follow.

   But other than some of the problems with the story and the pacing itself. RED is awesome. And though I was a little disappointed with its overall value. It was an entertaining movie.