RED 2 (Retired, Extremely Dangerous) July 19, 2013

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July 12, 2013
'Red 2' Movie Review: Bruce Willis And Company Offers Plenty Of Action And Humor Which Made The First Film A Hit
Source: The Global Dispatch
DC Comics has a third franchise in Red, which succeeds in the shadows of their Batman and Superman inspired films. The 2010 film was a surprise success and warranted a sequel, which returns the all-star cast.
Based on a Warren Ellis comic book series, the new film, Red 2, has a new director in Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) who succeeded in keeping the key elements of the first film and building a new tale around his great cast.
Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), a former black-ops CIA agent, is retired (Retired and Extremely Dangerous = RED) and now tries to settle down with Mary-Louise Parker’s Sarah, the carryover girlfriend from the first film.
Longtime friend Marvin (John Malkovich) attempts to warns Frank of a new threat, but Marvin, as “some people might say…is a bit paranoid.”
Willis, with the reluctance of a Pacino motivated Godfather, is pulled back into the cat-and-mouse action which takes the trio across the globe, reuniting with Victoria (Helen Mirren) of MI6 and plenty of newcomers: Catherine Zeta-Jones and Byung hun-Lee and Anthony Hopkins.
The synopsis of the film discusses the device and people the players are racing to locate, but these are just macguffins to move the plot along.
Byunghun-Lee shines in action sequences and even pulls off a Jackie Chan inspired fight scene designed to entertain and instigate a chuckle or two. David Thewlis (Lupin from the Harry Potter franchise) is fantastic as an information guru nicknamed The Frog.
Parker’s Sarah is wide-eyed for too long in the film, but grows into the final act where he character final matters. Willis and Malkovich repeat in their perfectly cast roles but sadly Mirren is only on-screen with Brian Cox (as Ivan, the former Russian spy) for fleeting moments.
Fans of the first film should not be disappointed: 4 out of 5 stars.
Fans that prefer The Expendables to the first film will be letdown by the reduced number of explosions: 2 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Even if you haven’t seen the first film, there is plenty to like about the characters, the pace and the humor: overall 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Red 2 officially arrives in theaters July 19.

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July 12, 2013
All star cast eager to take on 'Red 2'
MAXIME DEMERS, QMI AGENCY
NEW YORK -- You're never too old to fire a gun. At least in Hollywood.
Consider "The Expendables", who muscled their way into multiplexes last summer. And now starting Friday, the CIA agents of "Red" are coming out of retirement. Again.
None of the stars of 2010's Red were hesitant to come back for the sequel directed by Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest). Not Bruce Willis, or John Malkovich or even Dame Helen Mirren, who happily reprised her role as the ruthless killer Victoria.
"I love playing the tough guys," Mirren tells reporters in a hotel in New York.
"I thought it was cool to go from playing the Queen of England (in The Queen) to playing a badass retiree. And it's always nice to come back to a role you've already inhabited. In a certain way, these characters become part of us. I feel bound to the character of Victoria. These characters are little miracles that come along only rarely in a career."
From the comic book of the same name, Red -- for "retired extremely dangerous"-- features CIA agents who must come out of retirement to exact some vigilante justice. In "Red 2", Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) teams up with his old accomplices (John Malkovich and Mirren) to track down a nuclear device. This new adventure takes our heroes to Paris, London and Moscow.
Parisot promises he hasn't changed the formula that made the first film a huge success with a worldwide box office haul of $200 million. "It's the same funny mix of comedy and extreme violence," he says. "It's so over the top that it's clearly more comedy than realism. We don't hide that we want to impress. Instead of shooting five bullets, we shoot 30. That's what's so funny and exciting. But even though we went big on the action scenes, we wanted to ensure the story had characters that remained credible."
Having high-calibre actors like Willis, Malkovich, Mirren and Mary-Louise Parker made that all the easier.
"Because they'd spent a lot of time together filming the first movie, they'd already formed a bond," he says. "These are big celebrities, but they're also all very professional. They are generous and they know their craft enough to know that the more they invest in their characters, the more it will bring out the chemistry between them, and the better the film will work. It made my job very easy."
"Red 2" also marks the arrival of a few new faces. Catherine Zeta-Jones slips into the skin of a Russian spy reminiscent of a James Bond villain, and Anthony Hopkins plays an eccentric scientist.
Although Red 2 hasn't yet hit screens, a third movie is already in the works. When asked about it, the stars didn't hesitate to say they were on board.
And where will the third movie be filmed? "Why not the Caribbean?" suggests Bruce Willis, smiling. "Palm trees, tropical heat. That'd be nice, right?"

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It’s been a long time since he’s used a gun. That’s about to change.

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5 days until RED 2 explodes into theaters... are you ready?

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July 14, 2013
Helen Mirren back in action in ‘Red 2’Shooting from the hip
By:Stephen Schaefer Boston Herald
NEW YORK — This year, Helen Mirren is having a grand time reprising two iconic roles.
On Friday, she’s back as Victoria, her glam spy-assassin in “Red 2,” the sequel to the 2010 Bruce Willis spy thriller “Red.”
Just last month, she finished a 17-week reign on the London stage in “The Audience” as Queen Elizabeth II, a character that won her an Oscar in the 2006 drama “The Queen.”


“To lurch from being a queen to a (butt-kicker) is really cool,” Mirren, 67, told the Herald.
“The wonderful thing about Victoria is that she’s so ladylike. In reality, that’s what these people are like. They don’t walk around looking like a spy. They walk around looking like ordinary people. That’s the whole point!”
The “Red 2” mix of comic absurdity and murderous mayhem requires a special sort of skill, Mirren discovered.
“Every role brings different challenges really. I’d never handled guns, so I had to learn that.”
But the real challenge, she said, “is there’s self-discipline, but at the same time, there has to be an ease, an ability to improvise.
“That’s where the real work is in a movie like this: Prepping yourself to realize that you’ve got to be free.
“It’s very difficult to be free on a film set,” she added. “The whole setup is not free. It’s so technical and controlled. To be free requires a great skill. Bruce (Willis) has it to the max. I would always take my lead from him.”
Mirren is that rarity, a star with the happiest of home lives, married 15 years to director Taylor Hackford.
“It works because we had the advantage of coming onto each other quite late in life. I’d say, ‘I can’t believe we didn’t get together when we were in our 20s,’ and he’d say, ‘If we got together then, we wouldn’t be together now.’ And he was absolutely right.
“We’d learned what both of us needed in a relationship was the ability to continue working. We always give each other complete support and freedom. That’s incredibly important. Also unconditional praise. No criticism! We get enough of that, professionally speaking, in the world. We get brickbats thrown at us all the time.
“So to each other we are both fantastic. In terms of work, we say, ‘Brilliant!’ That’s all I want to hear from Taylor and vice versa.”

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July 15, 2013
Red 2: Film Review
by Justin Lowe THR
The Bottom LineResemblances to a slew of similarly conceived titles and potential sequel-fatigue pose challenges for this second installment.
Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Mary-Louise Parker reprise their roles from the 2010 action comedy.
With the concept of retired secret agents pressed back into service by imminent threats to their lives, 2010’s Red benefited from a wave of enthusiasm for high-octane baby boomer action comedies, now mostly either forgotten or entering their second or third iterations. By now the interest factor in a Red sequel is more in the execution than almost anything else, particularly since Red 2 doesn’t have a whole lot new to offer.
Not that it isn’t entertaining, but the film's premise is certainly well past its “use by” date, resulting in another passably palatable sequel distinguished by a lack of narrative and stylistic coherence that could potentially underpin a really viable franchise. While Red 2 could benefit from the shift to a mid-summer release, the field of openers and holdovers is also well-crowded with comedy and action options, which may serve to divert attention at the box office. Now a happily contented man indulging his domestic instincts, retired CIA field agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) has settled down with Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker), the much younger woman who fell in love with him after he repeatedly saved her from various attempts on her life by the CIA, FBI and various law enforcement agencies in Red.
But coupled life has gotten rather routine for Sarah, so when Frank’s perennially paranoid former partner Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) unexpectedly turns up spouting warnings about a plot to take them out, Sarah’s more than ready to listen, despite Frank’s resistance. He’s quickly persuaded, however, when a car bomb kills Marvin, and he’s dragged in for questioning about a clandestine Cold War era mission called “Nightshade” that he’s suspected of having coordinated. Denying any knowledge, Frank quickly becomes a liability to Pentagon special agent Jack Horton (Neal McDonough), who’s about to finish him off when Marvin turns up very much alive and well-armed, rescuing Frank as they go on the run, with Sarah once again in tow.
Nightshade, it turns out, was a briefcase nuke that Frank and Marvin unwittingly helped smuggle into the Soviet Union in the 70s. Its whereabouts are currently unknown – even to them -- regardless of the opinion of a rouge group within the Pentagon, which is determined to retrieve it. Unable to bring in the former CIA spooks, however, the DOD recruits a couple of expert assassins: Frank’s former MI6 British counterpart Victoria (Helen Mirren) and ruthless South Korean contract killer Han (Byung Hun Lee), setting off a chase across Europe to determine the location of the Nightshade device.
In Paris, the Americans meet up with Katja (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a Russian agent and Frank’s former flame, who’s assigned to locate Nightshade for the Kremlin. Her amorous reunion with Frank traps him between Sarah’s ire and the mission exigencies, but when Han arrives heavily armed and primed to eliminate Frank and Marvin, a fortuitous discovery sends them back to London to retrieve elderly scientist Edward Bailey (Anthony Hopkins), a weapons expert whom Frank believes died during the Nightshade operation.
By now Victoria has rejoined her old comrades, leading Frank deep within a British psych prison to extract Bailey, an addled genius with apparent memory loss and no clear idea of what might have transpired four decades previous in Moscow -- which is exactly where they’ll have to go to seek out the weapon, if they can manage to counter Han’s repeated ambushes, Horton and the federal agents on their tail and an installation full of Russian military experts.
Dipping back into the source material created for DC Comics by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, returning screenwriters Jon and Erich Hoeber effectively revive their team of “retired, extremely dangerous” characters, but then subject them to an uninspired, generic narrative that rarely rises above the strictly routine.
Fortunately, these characters still have some life left in them, even if the spark has diminished somewhat. Action-comedy has long been Willis’ strong suit, which he reprises here with aplomb, although rarely appearing to completely revel in the role of Frank Moses, as he did in the original film. An ongoing gag about his domestic tendencies plays well against type, but when the action thickens he relies more on ironic facial expressions and all-out physicality, rather than a more refined comedic performance. Nobody does nutty quite like Malkovich and if anything he’s in even finer form throughout the sequel, amping up the paranoia and angst to an almost contagious level.
Once again providing the catalyst that makes the Frank-Marvin deadly-kooky double threat work so well, Parker may be the best of the three. Sarah’s character and screentime have been noticeably improved upon -- her gently humorous line readings and expertly timed physical comedy end up stealing more than a few scenes. With a supporting cast that includes Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Catherine Zeta-Jones, a director could hardly go astray. Mirren adds that touch of class that’s delightfully upended by Victoria’s deadly serious determination and skillful weapons handling. Zeta-Jones nicely pulls off Russian spy Katja’s mix of allure and menace, along with Brian Cox returning as Ivan, her romantic Russian counterpart with a Victoria fixation.
Hopkins proves almost too much of a good thing, calibrating his prodigious talent to impressively shift Bailey’s character from gently droll to threateningly unhinged in the narrative’s major plot twist. Byung and David Thewlis as an unpredictable wild-card character are both effective, if rather underused.
Dean Parisot – taking the directorial reigns from Robert Schwentke – dials the film’s overall tone and action down a notch or two from the original. With such an accomplished cast, globetrotting locations, and alternating shootouts and chase scenes of prodigious proportions, a degree of directorial elan may seem superfluous, but downplaying a distinctive visual style ends up holding the entire proceedings back a bit.
Whether there’s enough gas left in the tank for another sequel may depend as much on the age and enthusiasm of the actors as it does on the movie’s performance. But when it comes to this crew of aging action heroes, it’s best to never say “retired.”

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July 15, 2013
Film Review: 'Red 2'Despite a bigger-is-better philosophy, this globe-trotting action-comedy keeps real thrills and laughs at a modest trickle.
Justin Chang Senior Film Critic Variety.com@JustinCChang
More turns out to be less in “Red 2,” an obligatory sequel that can’t quite recapture the sly, laid-back pleasures of its cheerfully ridiculous predecessor. While Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, et al. are still good for a few chuckles as a gang of superannuated government assassins, this globe-trotting action-comedy diversion applies a bigger-is-better philosophy across the board, upping the stakes, the firepower and the travel budget, but keeping real thrills and laughs at a modest trickle. “Red” became a surprise hit in 2010 with nearly $200 million worldwide, a feat that this Summit release will be hard-pressed to match even with solid opening numbers.
Domestic bliss doesn’t last long for “retired and extremely dangerous” black-ops CIA operative Frank Moses (Willis) and his loopy civilian g.f., Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker). Shortly after his old partner Marvin Boggs (Malkovich) dies in an explosion — it’s no spoiler to report that he doesn’t stay dead for long — Frank finds himself being threatened and interrogated by a U.S. official (a reliably nasty Neal McDonough) about his possible ties to a bona fide weapon of mass destruction that went missing during the Cold War.
Not long after Frank breaks free, dodging and unleashing a spray of bullets in one of many heavy-artillery action scenes, he discovers he’s being targeted by not one but two assassins: regal sharpshooter Victoria (Mirren), who’s enough of a pal to give him fair warning and a head start, and the much more dangerous Han (Korean star Byung-hun Lee). Frank, Sarah and Marvin (see?) head to Europe in search of answers, with Frank trying to keep Sarah out of harm’s way, even though she’s all too ready for some transatlantic danger.
Zipping from London to Paris to Moscow, the script loses no time in piling on the new characters, many of whom are introduced with the sort of handy single-phrase sound bites that anticipate greater investment in the story than most viewers will care to muster. Apparently we are meant to be impressed by the fact that Han is “the best contract killer in the world,” while sexy Russian spy Katja (Catherine Zeta-Jones) isn’t just our hero’s old flame, she’s “Frank’s kryptonite.” No such descriptions are offered in the case of British scientist Edward Bailey, who’s been locked up for decades and may know the missing weapon’s whereabouts, but given that he’s played by Anthony Hopkins and likes to scribble equations on walls, one almost expects to hear him announced as “Hannibal Lecter meets John Nash.”
At times director Dean Parisot (taking over for Robert Schwentke) and scribes Jon and Erich Hoeber (who adapted the first pic from Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s graphic novel) seem to be aiming for the winking insouciance of an “Ocean’s” movie, the sort of loosey-goosey, all-hands-on-deck caper that knows better than to take anything — especially murder — too seriously. An amusing scene in which Mirren’s Victoria gabs away on the telephone while absent-mindedly dissolving a corpse in acid is typical of the breezily offhand approach here, and the use of stylized graphic-novel illustrations as scene transitions further serves to keep the proceedings at a cartoonish distance.
But while it’s never less than watchable, this sort of droll, dark comedy is harder to pull off than it looks, and the lightness that “Red 2″ seems to be aiming for ultimately feels more like laziness, from the cut-rate quality of the banter to the busy, cluttered nature of the storytelling. Boilerplate twists and indifferent plotting were no hindrance to enjoying “Red,” which got by on its marvelous actors and the wry, even poignant conceit of professional killers being continually made aware of their own mortality. But that irony had more or less exhausted its potential by film’s end, and the actors returning for duty, though still marvelous, have little to do but recycle their character quirks, invariably to lesser effect.
Parker, who provided an audience entry point the first time around, is less winsome here as someone whose default personality setting seems to be stubborn indignation, and whose thirst for adventure is matched only by her exasperating incompetence in the field. The script falls flat in its attempts to turn her Sarah and Zeta-Jones’ Katja into heated rivals for Frank’s affections; it doesn’t help that Willis has scarcely enough chemistry with either actress to light a match. Malkovich’s crusty paranoiac routine and Brian Cox’s boozy Russian romantic, comic highlights in the earlier film, are given short shrift here, and while Mirren once again does everything in her estimable power to lend the picture a pulse and a personality, the near-climactic image of her pulling out the big guns feels like a tired rehash.
Of the cast newcomers, David Thewlis at least makes a brief, fierce impression as a tweedy assassin with expensive taste in wine, while the ever-compelling Lee (“G.I. Joe: Retaliation”) gets to show off his martial-arts prowess in the film’s best pure fight scene, impressively staged inside a convenience store. Tech credits are sturdy but unremarkable; location lensing in France and the U.K. offers strong atmosphere, though sequences set but not shot in Russia suffer by comparison.

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July 17, 2013
Bruce Willis 'makes' Red 2
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Red 2 director Dean Parisot says Bruce Willis' "adept" talent sets the whole tone for his newest movie.
Bruce Willis sets the tone for Red 2, says the film's director.
The action star reprises his role as retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses in the action comedy, which is directed by Dean Parisot.
The filmmaker says working alongside Bruce on the sequel to the 2010 film was a joy.
"He's an amazing actor. The tone of Red comes from Bruce basically. He's very adept at playing both sides at the same time," he explained in an interview with iamrougue.com.
"Being both a comic wiseass in some ways, although in this movie he's a little more comically befuddled by romance, but also being a tough guy at the same time. He's also a brilliant actor and if you saw Moonrise Kingdom, I mean he's playing the complete opposite, this sort of befuddled sweet character. I was telling someone the other day that the first time I saw Bruce was on stage before he was Bruce Willis. I remember marking my program because I used to underline the actors I liked when I saw a play. I underlined Bruce's name before he was Bruce. He's first and foremost a great actor, so he absolutely gets this tone."
Red 2 also stars Dame Helen Mirren, Mary-Louise Parker, John Malkovich, Brian Cox, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Anthony Hopkins.
Dean loved the connection between on-screen couple Bruce and Mary-Louise, and their "marriage counsellor" John.
"The three of them together are like the couple that aren't getting along and the best friend who is now a marriage counsellor even though they're shooting and killing everybody," he laughed.
Anthony and Brian - who both played Hannibal Lecter - share a scene in the movie. Dean says the meeting was unintentional, but he found himself holding back on creating a "historic cinematic moment".
"It was scripted that way, but we didn't realise it or think about it until a couple of days beforehand. We all of a sudden went, 'Wait a second, they both played Hannibal Lecter and they're both meeting, should we do something?' But we didn't. We held back. We restrained ourselves," he said.
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July 16, 2013
Helen Mirren On 'RED 2,' Her Surprising Love For 'Iron Man,' And Looking Back At 'The Mosquito Coast'
Mike Ryan Huffington Post
Helen Mirren is even more delightful in person than my imagination had led me to believe. (Yes, I realize that past sentence is benign and the opposite of sensational, but would you be happy to learn that Helen Mirren is "mean"?) Though, I certainly wasn't expecting the conversation to drift toward "Iron Man," a movie Mirren apparently likes. "Apparently" only because it's hard to imagine Mirren sitting in a movie theater watching "Iron Man." A Merchant Ivory film or a Fellini classic? Sure. But "Iron Man"?
So, yes, Helen Mirren likes a good action movie. (And she will emphasize the word "good.") Speaking of action movies, Mirren reprises her role as Victoria in this weekend's new release, "RED 2." Basically, the gang is back together from the first film as Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and his pack of retired CIA agent pals try to stop a Cold War-era nuclear bomb from exploding in Russia.
Mirren has had a fascinating career, one that saw her fame increase exponentially after she turned 60. Ahead, Mirren talks about that phenomena and also looks back on one of her most famous roles of the '80s, co-starring with Harrison Ford in "The Mosquito Coast."
As part of a mission, you get to briefly play the queen again in 'RED 2.'I do! You can't keep me away from that role, yeah [laughs].
Though, this queen is crazy.Yes, a very, very naughty queen. I can't remember whose idea it was.
I was wondering if that was your idea. I think it was my idea to do Elizabeth I. I think they said, "It would be funny if you thought you were the queen." I said, "Well, I don't want to do that with the present queen." So, I did do Elizabeth I. I did say, "Why don't we do Elizabeth I? It will be more fun." The red wig and, you know, the mad outfit and everything.
This is two movies in the last six months that we get to see you and Anthony Hopkins together. How does that work? On "Hitchcock" were you like, "Hey, you should do 'Red 2'"?No, it was coincidental! And I didn't realize that Tony was already signed up for "Red 2" before we did "Hitchcock," because he didn't mention it. But, yes, it was just a wonderful synchronicity.
Do you like action movies? I love watching action movies.
Really?Yeah, I do. I mean good ones.
What do you consider good ones? Will you see something like "World War Z"? I am very curious what movies you see in your free time.Well, the ones that work -- and it's very hard to make an action movie really work and it doesn't matter how much money you throw at it -- when they really work, they really work. And you can't really identify what it is. "Red" is definitely an intelligent script, which is a really useful element in an action movie. I like it when an action movie has some logic. I hate it when it's just "What? Why?" When there's no logic to it, it annoys me. I like a story that has a really good logic and has development of character.
What's an example of your ideal action movie?I guess it's an action movie, "War of the Worlds."
I think that qualifies. And it has deeper undertones. Yeah. That's a great action movie. I thought "Avatar" was in a sense an action movie, wasn't it -- an extraordinary movie. "Iron Man," the first "Iron Man" was really fun. Fantastic. Really great. From the moment it starts to the moment it ends, you're just with it, you're enjoying it, it's fun, it's funny -- that's what an action movie should be.
In my mind you seem too elegant to be watching those movies.[Laughs] I mean, I do love my French intellectual movies, too. I do. I am that person as well. Very much. But, no, a good action movie, there's nothing quite like it. Partly because it does cost so much money. I mean, watching the result of an incredible amount of artists' work on the screen is extraordinary.
Your career is very interesting. I'm not talking about awards or recognition from your peers, but as far as pure fame, I feel things have changed dramatically for you over the last 10 years. People will now say, "I'm going to see the Helen Mirren movie," which I don't think used to something someone would say.No, it wasn't a thing. You are absolutely right. And I'm not too sure it is now [laughs].
I promise I've heard people say that.I think [pauses], I think that if I'm in a movie along with other people -- rather than a "Helen Mirren movie" -- I think that they think, Oh, she's in it. It might be good. I do think that, maybe. Do you know what I mean? That they think that what's around me -- the other actors and everything -- I am a, how can I put this? I am a good ingredient. Like a dish. And, "Oh, it's got that ingredient and I like that ingredient." Maybe it's more that.
When did you first realize that was happening? Not that you didn't always deserve that, but now it's a real thing.No, you're absolutely right. You're totally right. I was in China recently and Chinese people were coming up to me asking for my autograph, which was extraordinary. I'm not sure that they knew exactly who I was. Maybe it was -- no, they did know who I was. Actually they did know who I was. I think it has a lot to do with the movie "The Queen" actually. I think it has a lot to do with that.
Were you surprised by how popular that movie became?Yeah. I was surprised. I was. And I think it's all to do with the character of the Queen, actually. I think, in a way, certainly Britain, but over the planet, there's sort of a worldwide appreciation of what she's done over the last 60 years.
Here's an example. If "2010: The Year We Make Contact" came out today, people would be more likely to see it because you're in it.Yes. Yes, that's true, it would be different. You're absolutely right.
I love "The Mosquito Coast." Was that a hard shoot?Oh, I loved it. No, it was fantastic. Being in the jungle in Belize? I loved it. It was right up my alley. I remember the day I got that, I was just floating on air the day I was asked to be in that movie.
Did you have to audition?Yes. I read with Harrison [Ford]. I was just so-- I've never been quite as happy as that day since -- because it was my first real Hollywood movie. I had done "2010," but I was more of a "visiting actress" at that point. And I guess I had also done "White Nights." But, somehow, with Harrison -- I think it was to do with Harrison, come to think of it.
In what way?Because he was such a movie star in the real Hollywood tradition. And to be in a movie with a movie star was just very exciting to me. And he was trying to do something different.
I feel that movie is better perceived today than it was then. They couldn't accept him. They couldn't handle it. They couldn't see their beloved Harrison Ford being this dark, conflicted, problematic character. They just couldn't stand it. They couldn't handle it. It's interesting.
You mentioned "White Nights." I just heard Lionel Ritchie's "Say You, Say Me" in a grocery store on the way over here.[Laughs] Oh, yeah!
I'm sure you still hear that song a lot.Yes. Absolutely. My husband ["White Nights" director Taylor Hackford] is incredible with music. And in all of his movies, he put amazing songs that became huge classics. The film he did before "White Nights," "Against All Odds" -- he's absolutely brilliant with music. And in the days when you put music in, the songs he put in all became huge number one hits. He was very clever.
I'm out of time.Oh my God, that was quick.
I think they're going to kick me out, but we can keep talking. Yeah, let's keep talking until they come in.
OK. So what else do you have going on? What's coming up?Um ... [laughing] nothing!
OK, see, now they are asking me to leave.We were laughing too much.
Mike Ryan is senior writer for Huffington Post Entertainment. You can contact him directly on Twitter.

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July 12, 2013
The Cast Of Red 2 Talks About Fliming, Behind the Scenes Events and Possible Red 3 -

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With “Red 2″ hitting theaters July 19th, Dos Lives got to view this action packed comedy and got the scoop of how it was like filming.
How were you able to keep this movie jolly go lucky but yet still have mayhem ?
Jon Hoeber- What’s fun is the characters, with putting these characters in these situations in context in there later years and the fun in that, and also to celebrate action movie dramas.
How did you approach the subject of aging?
Erich Hoeber- I think that whatever age we are at we can never believe it, I’m 44 but I feel like a 18 year old, We try to embrace that a little bit, The characters never feel like that, and they are great at what they do, yet better with their experience .
How was it like shooting in Paris?
Dean Parisot- We started out shooting the Paris scenes in Canada, But with the film expanding we decided to go to Paris. When you have a car chase in Paris its really Paris. and you see everything, it has a different color, flavor, and vibe. It effect the way you shoot the scenes.
Can you talk about the way your character changed from the first film being timid and wanting to stay way from all the action to with the second film missing it?
Mary-Louise Parker- I think when you first see her she lives her life as a phone operator, and her outlet is reading these romance novels with adventure and I think that’s what she dreamed of and she was able to get a little taste of it and she just wanted more.
How does one prepare to make out with four or five men in the movie?
Mary-Louise Parker- Did I? Oh that was my idea, I’m not shy about kissing anyone, with various degrees of enjoyment, and kissing Bruce is up there and that was the only weapon she had.
How was it working with Bruce Willis?
Mary-Louise Parker-He's very macho but yet so sweet, You can see that when he talks about his daughters, he really love his kids hes very good with kids, my children just loved him, when my son would see pictures of him he would tell me “mommy look its Bruce Wilson”. Hes the type of guy if someone came into room and was ready to fight all he had to do was look at them and take them out, and that really sexy.
There’s a very intense scene when you keep slapping Bruce, how many times you had to do that?
Mary-Louise Parker- I was shaking him and he was doing this really funny thing moving hes head around, But it hard to fake a slap so there was a few real ones in there.
Your character try’s to be sexy like Catherine Zeta-Jones but she is a bad richard simmons in her own right, when did she realize that?
Mary-Louise Parker-She sees that Frank (Brice Willis) loves her for who she is, he loves the clumsy side of her, but everyonce in awhile she can make the right move.
Is there anything you did to shape your character from the first film to this one?
Bruce Willis- I'll talk about the romance, I got to kiss two women in the film which I don’t get to do in my other films. My character is so befuddled, I love to play characters that are a little behind the information.
Mary Louis Parker felt bad about slapping you so much should she feel bad about it?
Bruce Willis- I was slapped in the film? I didn’t see the final cut. I like that scene, I get to do something that I don’t really get to do in films, getting that daffy look on my face when coming out of unconsciousness. In that scene we winged…Whats the past tense of winged? We wong it? but we did get have some fun on the film ad she was really letting me have it.
Was there any pressure to out do yourself.
Bruce Willis- I was really excited to do this film, I don’t feel like I took it that seriously, We just had a ball.
How was it playing a bad richard simmons in this film?
Helen Mirren- I love being a bad richard simmons, from being a queen to being a bad richard simmons in very cool. I love to reprise a character, they become a part of you personal life, she just a great funny character that one hasn’t seen before on the screen.
Would you consider doing a Superhero movie?
Helen Mirren- Oh yes but I would have to play the villain since I’m British, our role in life is to be bad.
How much did you prepare for this film?
Helen Mirren- The prep is learning how to use the gun, you really have to know how to use one. You have to learn to be free, its hard to be free on a film set, it really requires a great skill, I would always watch Bruce and take my lead from him.
Which actor in the golden ages do you think would be good to play Red 2?
Helen Mirren- Cary Grant. He has that wit, I’m a huge fan of his. And Betty Davis would play my character perfectly.
If you wasn’t in the world of fame, what do you think you life would be like?
Helen Mirren-I love Home Depot, they know me by name in home depot. In reality its hard to let go of our business, its hard to let go of the attention and you don’t think your addicted to it but when its gone you really craving it. With people on Facebook putting up what they are doing they feel that they are living in some kind of media telling the world they exists.
Will there be a RED 3?
Dean Parisot-There is a third in the works!
In RED 2, the high-octane action-comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they’ll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills, and each other to rely on as they try to save the world—and stay alive in the process.
Director: Dean Parisot
Cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Byung Hun Lee, Brian Cox, Neal McDonough
Writers: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
Release : July 19th, 2013

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July 17, 2013 
Film Review: Red 2 is for those who wished the first part had larger than life action scenes
Tushar Joshi  DNAThe banter between Willis and Malkovich has some of the most entertaining exchange of verbal volleys. While the former has a zen like appeal, the latter doesn't flinch from adding dollops of colour to his language.
Film: Red 2Cast: Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta Jones, Byung Hun LeeDirector: Dean ParisotRating: ***
What it's about: So what do you do when your film is the sleeper hit of the year? You go ahead and make a sequel! Dean Parisot revisits the 2010’s hit team of undercover hitmen who are now joined by Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta Jones and Korean star Byung Hun Lee in what seems to be a calibrated effort to use the old tricks to market some new material. Retired CIA agent Frank Moses (Willis) is dragged back into the game by his girlfriend (Parker) and old accomplice Marvin (Malkovich). 
This time around he has to prevent a deadly weapon of mass destruction from reaching the hands of a rogue government. The action takes place across Europe as they sprint across London, Moscow and Paris figuring out who’s the fugitive that’s giving them the chase.
What's good: The banter between Willis and Malkovich has some of the most entertaining exchange of verbal volleys. While the former has a zen like appeal, the latter doesn't flinch from adding dollops of colour to his language. Given the fact that it is a throwback to the first, there is a sizeable increase in the ammunition. Most of the stunts are magnified to the scale 10, especially the slow motion car scene with Helen Mirren which takes the cake. Byung Hun Lee brings a nice Oriental twist to the tale. Anthony Hopkins is terrific as the quirky scientist and takes us back to the Hannibal Lecter days for one fleeting second.
What's not: The gags lack the required punch, some of them seem over rehearsed while others seem . Malkovich gets the best lines while Mirren’s screen time is awfully slashed. Willis and Parker’s zany chemistry gets jaded before interval. Catherine Zeta Jones is wasted in an extended cameo sort of roles as Frank’s ex-girlfriend. The ensemble reminds us of the Expendables, only this one is more fashionable and feisty. It isn't that the film isn't funny, some scenes and lines will have you in splits, but the cohesiveness is missing. Also making the older actors do crazy stuff and pull off those mind boggling stunts was a formula milked dry in the prequel. This time around the same exercise seems futile.
What to do: If you enjoyed the first part, and wished it had larger than life action scenes, then Red 2 is your ticket this weekend.   
You will like this movie if: You own the Red DVD.

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July 16, 2013
"Red 2" Screens At MOMA
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Hoping to earn box office success with their action-packed sequel, the cast of "Red 2" attended The Cinema Society and Bally's screening at MOMA in New York City on Tuesday (July 16).
While Bruce Willis went casual in a black sweater and jeans, his lovely costar Mary-Louise Parker sported a short-sleeved little black dress.
The always-classy Helen Mirren donned a cream dress with a white cardigan while the sultry Catherine Zeta Jones opted for a sexy black dress with a thigh-high side slit.
In the follow-up to the 2010 flick, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. "Red 2" hits theaters on July 19th.