Red 2 - 2013

The first one was fun, but this is.. this sucks. There are a couple of cool car-chasing scenes, and lots of nice actors, but they are not enough to save this film. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) now goes around not only with Marvin (John Malkovich) but also with his inseparable girlfriend Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker). Sarah is now a crazy thing excited by what he does, she wants to be armed and to have an active role: she has it her own way and of course at the end she's safe and sound, despite the fact that her whole training in life had been talking on the phone.
To save the world, or at least a good part of it, they track down a bomb made by Bailey (Anthony Hopkins) who succeeds in selling it to Iran before activating it. They want to stop him and disarm the bomb, and they're helped by Victoria (Helen Mirren), Katja (Cataherine Zeta-Jones) and Han (Byung-hun Lee). Han was a heartless killer but a few words from Frank and he's ready to help him *sigh*
They go around making a mess wherever they go, killing people without problems, as if for fun, even when not really necessary. They don't kill only the bad guys, but everyone that gets in their way, even if they have all the right to be there. I mean, they break into the Kremlin, they even enter the Iranian embassy shooting around killing every poor Iranian guard who is simply doing his job. At first it seemed Marvin was the crazy one, in the other movie, but here they are all crazy, and he's right in saying that they like killing.
Even Sarah starts doing it, and enjoying her part. Not a second wasted thinking about the fact that she just killed a man, no, she's totally addicted, wasted.
Of course when Bailey reveals his betrayal he kills only Katja, leaving the others alive, because she's not needed anymore and they are the protagonists, so they must win against all reason. At the end Bailey takes Sarah prisoner and tries to run away. They follow him. Of course they run out of the Iranian embassy and had no problem in finding both a fast car and an helicopter to use, and the helicopter crashed badly without hurting either them or the bomb. Frank boards Bailey's plane and somehow manages to hide in it the bomb despite the fact that he's never alone there, and Bailey keeps him and Sarah at gunpoint the whole time, and never takes his eyes off of him.
Happy ending: Bailey will be the only one to die when the bomb with red mercury will explode in the air. How preposterous. Couldn't they invent something good, here? The car-chasing scenes were absurd but funny, enjoyable, meant to be that way, to look cool, but the rest is stupid and exaggerated. It's a pity, I liked the first film, it was fun, it was nice; yes, it had scenes of shooting-frenzy, but still it had many good scenes, but this movie here is just a loud mess with no sense or dignity.