Red (2010)

Former CIA agent, Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), lives a quiet life. He spends an excessive amount of time on the phone, talking to Sarah (Mary Louise Parker), a customer service rep, who works in his pension office. When a group of CIA assassins try to kill him in the middle of the night, he travels to Kansas City, to find Sarah. He fears the CIA tapped his phone, and will be going after her. 

Frank tracks down his former black ops partners, including Joe (Morgan Freeman) , Marvin (John Malkovich) , Victoria (Helen Mirren) , and Ivan (Brian Cox) , when he discovers the attempted hit on his life was related to a mission years ago in Guatemala. The CIA has meanwhile assigned Agent Cooper (Karl Urban) to track down and kill Moses.

They are referred to as RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous).

The plot is thin, and occasionally silly. While there are plenty of comic moments, and plenty of action scenes, I didn't feel like it succeeded in either genre. With such a great cast, that also included Richard Dreyfuss, Julian McMahon, James Remar, and Ernest Borgnine, Red rivals The Expendables for having a great ensemble cast. Unfortunately, it was nowhere near as entertaining.

Note: Red is very loosely based on a DC Comics series that only had 3 issues. Most of the characters in the movie do not appear in the comics, and the term RED referred to Moses coming out of retirement, and changing his status from Green (retired) to Red (active).

Rated PG13, Runtime 111mns