For the first half of RED, I thought it might be a top ten movie of the year. Is it a great film? No, of course not. But it kept along at a nice pace, allowed Mary-Louise Parker show off the comedy chops that Hollywood has wasted over her career, and Bruce Willis and John Malkovich and Brian Cox showed some nice chemistry. Sadly, the film was paper thin and by the end of the movie, it started to drag. The humor of the piece dipped and the action scenes didn't improve any to make up the difference. The beginning had some ridiculously over the top moments and then the end seemed to be playing it straight (relatively).

In the end, RED was simply one of those movies that you unwittingly get from Netflix or sit down and watch on cable and think, "Hey, that movie wasn't that bad." No need to see it in the theater but it's a decent rainy day rental.