In 1962, Producer Darryl F. Zanuck gathered 42 of the most international action stars to create the movie hit "The Longest Day". The movie's acclaim came mostly from it's all star cast of John Wayne, Henry Fonda, and Robert Micthum who lead the rest of the actors in the long, War time epic. However, it has been known as one of the first few stunts Hollywood has tried to do for people to actually watch their bad movies (ahem "The Expendables"...) . RED is without a doubt not an exception.
RED (if you didn't figure out already) stands for Retired, Extremely Dangerous. By the Retired they mean Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Morgan Freeman. By the Extremely Dangerous, they mean mostly Bruce Willis. These great veteran actors play ex CIA agents who retired because apparently, as shown in an extremely tedious 10 minute montage featuring Willis, they apparently are not as fit as they were in their "Die Hard" days. They are brought together after the CIA is targeting them to hide a huge government conspiracy that they might know about.
The movie is poorly directed by Robert Schwentke because it doesn't show any of these fine actors greatest traits; they all actually seem very weak or tired. I have heard this was a movie no one in production wanted to do, but when you're talking about a full force cast and a tons of money, you really can't say no. Unfortunately RED is more like BLUE.
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