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Rating: 3.6/5

Review: "Red DVD review"

You may think the movie has nothing to do with red but RED actually stands for Retired Extremely Dangerous. Bruce Will is the main character running away from the attack of a mysterious group which is presumely the FBI. He takes a younger woman with him on the journey to stop the FBI and to find the truth why they are targeting on him and his old friends. Sounds like fun. Yep, they get to travel too.

Although the story is not as fast paced as I thought, it is still entertaining. I can't call it good as it is actually a simple-minded story. Well, as it is an action movie, it has to contain action scenes. It has a few. There are gun fights and a brutal fist fight between Bruce and Karl. The action scenes are not very impressive but they are good enough to make this an action movie. The runtime of 1 hour and 47 minutes is enough to entertain me but somehow, it feels it could have been a faster ride. The music is barely in the movie but when it is heard, it makes the movie have a lighter tone.

Overall: It is an action movie featuring old cast like Bruce Wills and Morgan Freeman doing their things. It is worth a watch as it is interesting to see the old cast do the action.

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DVD special features- Rating: 3.3/5

The main meat of the features is 14 short clips of interviews and behind the scenes (28 minutes). Though they are not bad, they can be improved. I felt that there are not many behind the scenes footage. One clip is about 2 minutes long and therefore is brief. There are deleted and extended scenes (8 minutes) which is pretty pointless. Most of them are just extended. Lastly, there are 5 featurettes on CIA exposed ( 5 minutes) which explain some CIA terms. THey could have been interesting but they are too brief to be informative. One featurette runs about 1 minute long and features graphics. Okay features for a single disc edition.

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