RED revew

[spartan1077]

So I think I'm getting a jump on the competition by reviewing this before I have seen anyone else do it. So let's hope it goes good. Onto the review!

Basically, RED is an action movie. There is no other way to put it. But it has a lot of moments where you kind've look to the person you're watching it with(or yourself) and laugh. It isn't a HAHAHAHA that's the funniest thing ever laugh, but it's nice. The closest movie I can compare this to, would be Burn After Reading. RED is longer, and has more action but basically they have the same principles. So for the plot of RED;

RED(Retired Extremely Dangerous) is a movie about agents in Special Operations that have retired, but have been put on a hit list. Essentially, that means they have to find who wants to kill them and exact sweet revenge on them. Frank Moses(Bruce Willis) is the "main" character but others come in later of course. He is your average person really, until you see he has no family, no Christmas decorations, and is in a "long-distance relationship". Poor Frank. At first it seems like this movie is going to turn into a romantic action(which we obviously need more of) but soon the action starts. And wow, it hits you hard. The weapons are modern(corner shot anyone?) and I think the bad guys need a honorable mention in this review. They are some of the most lovable characters. Sure, they don't talk but at least they arn't deranged old people.

Anyways, Frank Moses has to meet up with his old gang and solve the problem before they all die. Sounds generic but actually makes for a great movie. Joe Matheson(Morgan Freeman) is the first to be seen, and doesn't seem to move away from the Morgan Freeman style. Yes, Morgan Freeman is amazing, but I don't see why he should've been cast in this. He still plays the crazy High-school principal and God, even though he is supposed to be a retired CIA member. It takes you out of the movie but soon you get back into it with more actors you just have to love. Sarah Ross(Mary-Louise Parker) is the girl Frank just loves to a fault. He soons ties her into all of this craziness and she gets to watch people get killed.

She seems to have a fault to her character though. How I saw her character was as a lonely girl who is going on blind dates, and reads romance novels about adventure, but at the end of the day feeds her cat, Snugglepuss, and goes to bed. But soon she doesn't even care that people are literally being blown up beside her! Or that she has been drugged and in car wrecks. The characters don't evolve at all. What you see in the begining is the same as what you will see in the end. Well in the end they may be crazier, but they are characters and not living beings.

On the mention of car wrecks, the greatest moment of the movie was put into the commercial. Why do movies do this. When you see it, you're like, " Wow that was so amazing!" but it's in the commercial! Yes, it made me watch the movie, but it was the greatest moment and I would've rather had it as a surprise.

Spoiler: The police car scene is in the preview

Actually, now that I watched the preview again, all the good parts were in it. It seems to be lacking after you watch the movie to only see one or two parts that you can remember forever. But it still has it's good parts. The acting was amazing and it was nice to see some old faces. A cast to rival the expendables but doesn't beat it in my books. The movie moved smoothly and had some strange transitions to moving from one place to another. Once again I have to bring up burn after reading, because it has that ADHD kind of feel to it that keeps me watching.

But like any action movie, it has it's "one liners" that you will be saying to your friends(or yourself) for some time. Mostly seeing John Malkovich walk around with a pig, while he pets it and seems to be purring.


The background for most of the scenes is amazing! Just seeing the great places that they filmed is enough to see this movie. From tropical islands, to great cities to the inside of the CIA. Whoever had worked on the setting of this movie deserves to be applauded.

Yes, that is a crossbow. But didn't you look behind him?​

Special effects are exactly what you would think they are. Amazing. Even for a modern film they deserve praise. The explosions are numerous and beautiful! Just seeing people blow up brings a tear to my eye.

It has it's action, it's actors, and it's memorable moments, and it's special effects. Sadly it lacks in evolving the characters and more non-memorable moments than memorable ones.

Spoiler: I give it a...

Essentially that means, "All in all I would say it is a must see movie if you are into action. If not, well why are you reading this?".

Spoiler: I also reviewd Dead Rising 2

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.238601-Dead-Rising-2-Review-First-review but that's not even worth mentioning

[sub][sub][sub]sorry for the lack of pictures, such as the pig but it is impossible to find them right now.[/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Get a word or open office document. Your thread can wait, don't post up a title until you wrote everything already

 

[Marter]

Uh...

Let's see...how should I go about this?

Um...

I'm not quite sure how to go about critiquing this. I don't really want to come off as a real dick, but the review needs a lot of work. It read way, way too much like you were just kind of describing the film, instead of critiquing it. An example of this is the way commas are used. They aren't really, even when they should be, because there wouldn't really be pauses when you speak. However, when you read it as text, it looks wrong without them.

The grammar is also fairly poor. The main example of this is the word "it's". No apostrophe is required, and it actually makes it incorrect.

I'm also not quite sure what the middle picture is there for. Maybe add a caption to that, and maybe shrink both of the pictures so that they are less distracting.

Basically, you really need to work on your grammar, and make more actual critiques of the film, instead of just describing it. There is a difference.

Sorry if I came off as mean, but I feel like people won't improve without criticism.

If you want any other things answered, let me know.

Also, I'm going to go watch this. You'll be having competition after I get home tomorrow.

 

[zombiesinc]

Marter summarized everything up nicely, but I would also like to add that it's not quite... necessary to state that you're putting a review up to beat other people to it. Although there may be some competition, you shouldn't compromise the level of quality in an attempt to be the first person to post a review. If reviewing is something you're considering to pursue as a career, this looks quite unprofessional.