Red (2008) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 4 Critic ReviewsHighest Rated
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Red's dialogue is a bit blunt, its characters are too broadly outlined, and the situation verges on the ludicrous at times, especially in the way these dumb kids keep committing terrible crimes without leaving any evidence. But the movie isn't meant to be an exercise in realism.Read the full review
Touchy subject matter aside, Red demonstrates real elegance in its commitment to a relatively straightforward story, allowing the characters' emotions to come to a slow boil.Read the full review
Its earnest, always incomplete quest haunts us in ways stock imagery cannot.Read the full review
Once Avery's mission assumes a Freudian dimension, the allegory loses its moral force and changes from a meditation on justice, power and inequality into a gory melodrama.Read the full review
