Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
24(63%)
mixed
13(34%)
negative
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80
Even the more cartoonish performances, like John Malkovich's acid-damaged paranoiac, fit the movie's vision of the vanished, wild-and-woolly heyday of spycraft.
80
Red isn't a great movie, but it's great fun, and if that sounds like damning with faint praise, you take things too seriously.
75
It's a lot of fun and, because of the high quality of the cast, there's no need to feel guilty about praising such an inherently silly motion picture.
75
The result is like a sugar rush after a visit to the vintage candy store.
75
One of those rare action comedies that actually delivers action and comedy.
75
Red isn't edifying, ennobling, or artful. It's just an utterly satisfying combination of big kicks, cheap thrills and real laughs.
75
This breezy action comedy is a noisy affirmation that life goes on after 50, that retirement doesn't mean redundancy, and that nobody - young or old - can wear a long cream evening gown like Mirren.
75
Red has more snappy joy in store than practically all of last summer's busted blockbusters.
75
RED is so much fun -- and its Over the Hill Gang so likeable -- that this is one of those rare cases where I wouldn't mind seeing them come out of retirement again for another romp.
70
Only a curmudgeon could entirely resist the laid-back charms of Red, an amusing, light-footed caper about a team of aging CIA veterans rudely forced out of retirement.
