As mindless entertainment built on silly jokes, a thin plot, visual effects and window dressing, Red Notice is a 117-minute distraction, easily forgotten in half that time.

| Dec 30, 2021

I watched this 117-minute movie on a rainy afternoon and it was just about perfect for the time and place. The final scene suggests a sequel. I hope it happens.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 24, 2021

There's turn off your brain and enjoy movies, and then there's this.

| Nov 15, 2021

If the director and actors don't seem engaged in trying to make a movie that does anything but hit a bunch of buddy comedy marks, there's no reason for an audience to bother.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 14, 2021

Red Notice is limp and dull, and does more to showcase the shortcomings of each of its marquee idols than it does to highlight their bankable charisma.

| Nov 13, 2021

The problem is that this movie is built on nothing but making references to [its influences].

| Nov 13, 2021

Like the plot of the film itself, none of the many bullets that whizz around ever seem to find their targets.

| Nov 12, 2021

Red Notice is not a movie. It is a $200 million existential crisis in light.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 12, 2021

To describe Red Notice as a whole lot of nothing could be understood as praise, up to a point. By design, there are no ideas worth mentioning in Rawson Michael Thurber's strenuously breezy caper.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 11, 2021

There's something incredibly deflating about all of this, from the waste of precious screen-talent resources to the sense that you're watching the last gasp of an age-old formula. It is like staring at a bright, shiny epitaph for two hours.

| Nov 11, 2021

When the story winks at Raiders of the Lost Ark, the effect is to remind you of other, older spectaculars made in better faith.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 11, 2021

Uninterested in world building or creating any sense of stakes, "Red Notice" is merely an expensive brandishing of star power - only the stars haven't got it in them.

| Nov 11, 2021

Johnson is one of the few stars who actually gets expensive, original action films made, but of late he's tended toward disappointingly safe material. Red Notice is his most generic effort yet.

| Nov 10, 2021

I gave Red Notice my full attention, and all it gave me back was a headache. As far as I'm concerned that says it all.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 9, 2021

Reportedly the most expensive Netflix original production to date, Red Notice would have benefited if some of its $200m budget had been spent on untangling the screenplay.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 7, 2021

The three megastars carry the entire film on their shoulders and end up buried alive under the weight of it all.

| Nov 6, 2021

Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds are barely acting in this over-the-top action movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 6, 2021

Red Notice embraces a typical banter-chase-banter-fight-banter-explosion formula, and its script is split evenly between Reynolds smart-assery and functional exposition.

| Nov 6, 2021

It's a series of set pieces flimsily bolted together with Reynolds doing the Reynolds thing, Johnson doing the Johnson thing, and Gadot doing the Gadot thing.

| Nov 5, 2021

The net effect is mildly enjoyable, creating a throwback caper film that showcases its stars doing what they do best, or rather for which they're best known.

| Nov 5, 2021