My cousin Christy, she of The Experiment, is visiting me this week. Hence the delayed posting. We went to see RED on Saturday, then drove to Annapolis that night, and yesterday we went to a Renaissance Faire up in Maryland before going to a drag show in Crystal City.
Whew.
So, the movie. In a word, it rocks. Bruce Willis is a CIA agent finding retirement to be a drag. The one bright spot of his life is the burgeoning romance he has with the phone operator at the pension office who, against all probability, looks like Mary Louise Parker. Then it all goes wrong when some people try and kill him for a mission he did back in the day. So he kidnaps Sarah the pension worker (for her safety) and drags her around the country to meet his crazy old CIA friends who are Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren.
They run around killing people and complaining about how things were better back in the old days and young whippersnappers not showing proper respect. Karl Urban is one of those whippersnappers, a blindly ambitious CIA operative on Bruce Willis' trail.
We laughed almost the entire way through this movie. Both of us decided about thirty minutes in that this definitely qualified as a Must Buy. Christy said that she would possibly even rank it a higher priority than Twilight: Eclipse which is kind of a duh for me. I would rank unnecessary dental surgery higher than any of those sparkly bastards. But it goes toward how awesome RED was for her to say that.
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