While we applaud the minds behind Red 2 for making a film for adults in a sea of movies for kids and teenage boys, they didn't actually make a good film for adults.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 13, 2013

The Expendables meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel isn't an obviously winning formula.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2013

The trick to RED 2's success is its willingness to allow the actors to roar through all their greatest hits at the loudest possible volume.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2013

Like the first one, it's played for laughs in-between bouts of mayhem; most of the gags are off-target, though Mirren's Nancy Mitfordesque assassin gets a pretty good kill ratio.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2013

Retired, extremely dull.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 1, 2013

"Retired & Extremely Dangerous" this lot may well be, but after two films proving they can't get it together, the emphasis really ought to be on retired.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 1, 2013

Ultimately, it's popcorn nihilism without the big laughs that helped distract from the casual approach to life and death in 'Red'.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2013

The details of the mission are a little sloppy, but the appeal of watching Willis, Malkovich, and Mirren rock some serious firepower is still there, making the sequel another satisfying thrill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 26, 2013

This is a likable, almost gentle comedy and also a violent action film about the possibility of a nuclear bomb going off in a major city.

| Jul 22, 2013

Willis is self-evidently capable of kicking the asses of men considerably younger than himself. But at some point shouldn't he consider an alternative pastime?

| Jul 19, 2013

Willis is solid, as usual, but it's Parker (and, later in the proceedings, Hopkins) who seem to actually be having fun, which is mildly contagious.

| Jul 19, 2013

No movie with this much ass-kicking should feel so lifeless.

| Jul 19, 2013

Ridiculously action-packed and just as endearing, Red 2 is why we go to sequels despite our well-earned cynicism about studios churning them out.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2013

It's nice to see oldsters cavorting in kaboom movies, but a little of this stuff goes a long way.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 19, 2013

What was once engagingly silly is now much closer to insultingly dumb.

| Jul 19, 2013

People are pumped with more bullets than those at the beginning of "Saving Private Ryan"; since they don't bleed, the MPAA considers this "family-friendly," hilariously calling it "frenetic gunplay."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 19, 2013

The best thing about RED 2, like its predecessor, is its lightness of tone. Too many movies with comic-book roots come on too seriously, even when the comics themselves have a loose, fast, jocular wit about them.

| Original Score: B | Jul 19, 2013

As in the first film, the seasoned-pro cast provides the few fleeting pleasures to be found.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2013

It's quite possible that Helen Mirren has never had to speak such terrible dialogue in her life.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 19, 2013

Sequels are, for the most part, inherently stale, so it's no shock the luster has faded in "Red 2." The bigger surprise is just how clunky and unsatisfying this follow-up feels.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 18, 2013