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RED: Where Legends Go To Die (Review)

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HOT Hollywood Birthdays December 9, 2010

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"Red": Slack Ops, by Kurt Loder

The new movie Red is based on a comic-book series by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner. The comics are hard-boiled and bloody. The movie is…well, it’s a Bruce Willis movie. Which can often be a great thing, but not this time. The story in the comics, which was tight and clear, has been and stretched and spun like pizza dough in order to confect a movie that wobbles in tone from whimsy to action to half-hearted romance, the whole of it heavily seasoned with implausibility. Even Willis, as fine an actor as he is, can’t pull the picture together, so he falls back into default mode, letting his trademark smirk do most of the work. (If you saw him in the equally piffling Cop Out earlier this year, you’ll know what to expect.)
Willis plays Frank Moses, a top CIA assassin now retired and living in Cleveland. One night a new generation of assassins busts into his house and tries to take him out, in the terminal sense. Clearly these goons didn’t read Frank’s CIA file before embarking on their mission -- it lists him as RED: “Retired, Extremely Dangerous.” After retiring his attackers, he realizes he’ll have to find out who wants him dead, and why. So what does he do? Well, Frank’s only contact with the outside world is a woman named Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker), who works in the CIA’s pension department and handles Frank’s retirement checks. They’ve chatted on the phone quite a bit, and Frank likes her voice. So with his house a smoking ruin and who knows what sort of malign conspiracy bearing down on him, Frank decides to drive to Sarah’s home (in Kansas City, go figure), because he figures she’s in danger, too, and needs his protection. Sarah thinks he’s nuts, but Frank overcomes her objections by tape-gagging her and tossing her into his car.

Then it’s off to round up Frank’s old black-ops team, each of them also living in retirement. First stop is New Orleans to pick up Joe Matheson (Morgan Freeman). Joe’s in a nursing home dying of cancer, but slowly enough to still be of service. Next destination is the Florida Everglades, where dwells Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich), a trigger-happy loon so paranoid that the entrance to his house is hidden in the trunk of a car. (Don’t ask.) With Boggs now in tow (along with a big stuffed pig he carries around with him), the crew makes its way to Maryland to pay a visit to a sleek lady named Victoria (Helen Mirren) – “the best wet-work artist in the business,” as Matheson explains.
Now what? Frank knows he’s being tracked by an FBI hardass named Cooper (Karl Urban), but he’s beginning to suspect that the forces arrayed against him are really being directed by someone high up in the government. The next move then: break into CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
And so on. Given the ages of the veteran cast -- which also includes Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Dreyfus as an evil arms dealer (a part for which he’s really not evil enough) -- the movie plays out rather like The Expendables, but minus the excitement. Any suspense intended to be generated by the conspiracy plot is continually diluted by the movie’s jokey tone, and by the unlikely romance between Willis and Parker, which keeps blossoming improbably and would have made a better picture on its own. The actors are stranded by the filmmakers’ general ineptitude. Malkovich’s performance is over-the-top even for him, and Freeman seems to be waiting for a call from his agent. Only Parker, as the lonely suburbanite suddenly embarked on the coolest adventure of her life, shines through – she has spunk and energy, and we wish she were in a better film than this one. We wish we were, too.The new movie Red is based on a comic-book series by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner.... more

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Trailer for Red

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Bruce Willis in the First Official Trailer for 'Red'

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Jonah Hex (2010) Review

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Jonah Hex Review

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Iron Man 2, Mother And Child, & Harry Brown - The Rotten Tomatoes Show

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The Anticipatron: Secretariat, Jonah Hex & Piranha 3-D

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Monday's Important News: Blue Cat People Win Again, Stuart Townsend cast from Asgard & TREKKIES GET A SECOND DATE FOR FIRST TIME

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John Malkovich: fashion designer?

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Spider-Man 4 No More?

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Buck Smithee: Accent Coach

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Jonah Hex Movie

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Jonah Hex Movie Poster

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John Malkovich brings serial killer Jack Unterweger back to life

"The very first time John Malkovich set eyes on Jack Unterweger, it was in the early 1990s and the celebrity model of rehabilitation was being interviewed on a television chat show.

"I have a memory of his creamy-ish white suit, a black and white polka-dot polyester stretch shirt, loafers and gold chains – convict paraphernalia," the actor recalled.

Unterweger was talking about his prison past – he had been convicted of murdering a woman in 1976 – and his subsequent rehabilitation into Austrian society by the Viennese cafe intellectuals who campaigned for his early release, leading to a pardon from the president at the time, Kurt Waldheim.

"At the time I didn't get it, I wondered why people believed in someone who was so obviously fake, so obviously lying," said Malkovich in an exclusive interview with the Guardian. "Only years later did the real story come out."

The real story, which Malkovich will bring to a Vienna stage in an opera-chamber theatre production which premieres tonight, was that Unterweger, the reformed prisoner turned celebrated poet and journalist, had begun a brutal killing spree within six months of his release.

"When I saw him he was well into the planning stages. He committed three murders in the first year he was out," said Malkovich.

Between 1990 and 1993 Unterweger murdered 11 prostitutes in Vienna, Prague and Los Angeles, strangling them with a self-styled ligature constructed from his victims' bra straps.

At the same time his books – including his celebrated autobiography Purgatory – were being taught in schools, his children's stories were performed on the radio and as a journalist for the state broadcaster, he was reporting on the very crime wave for which he was responsible. He was even sent by an Austrian magazine to Los Angeles to write a comparable reportage piece on the situation there.

"He came to write about the terrible conditions American prostitutes have because they don't have a union at all," said Malkovich, who plays Unterweger in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer. "But of course, he didn't necessarily improve their conditions because, you know, he killed them all after he'd interviewed them.

"But he got what he wanted – a free trip to California to kill some hookers and make himself a little more famous and known and thoughtful."

[Unterweger] took his life the night after he was convicted of nine murders by a Graz court.

Malkovich, who is used to playing film characters that are menacing and alluring, said he found Unterweger "haunting and tragic. I can find him so touching that I can't even talk when I get on stage," he said.

Describing The Infernal Comedy as a "lesson in being careful about what you wish for", Malkovich added: "It is a cautionary tale about where our projected fantasies of redemption hurl themselves, out into the night, not knowing if the ground is 10 inches below or 200 storeys. I'd be shocked if those who supported him haven't shown some remorse."""The very first time John Malkovich set eyes on Jack Unterweger, it was in the... more

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