Red 2 (4/10)

From Turbo to R.I.P.D. it was Ryan Reynolds back-to-back, and from R.I.P.D. to Red 2, it was with Mary-Louise Parker, back-to-back. But these were two of the lousier movies of the summer for me.

Red 2 was quite boring and I struggled to stay awake. The beginning action sequence with Bruce Willis getting hunted in the file room was terrible and amateurish by director Dean Parisot. There's no sense of space or logic as Willis took down, or how he took down, the guards one by one. That kind of set the tone for the rest of the action sequences as nothing really amounted to much.

Adding Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones also didn't really help much, not to the humour nor the drama. Only Neal McDonough as one of the main antagonist had some juice in his role. And surprisingly, I really liked Byung-Hun Lee's acting here. He's finally got a good performance in a Hollywood role, but too bad this wasn't a good movie. But these two were probably the only high points of the movie.

I remember I really enjoyed the first installment but this second one crashed and burned. Somehow the characters just got old, older than the actors.