Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), the “Retired, Extremely Dangerous” former CIA agent, is living a normal life with girlfriend Sarah (Mary Louise-Parker). One day, he finds himself hunted down by all sorts of people. It seems that he and his CIA-buddy Marvin (John Malkovich) were linked to a Cold War project called Nightshade. Since it involved nuking the Soviet Union with a super bomb, the bad guys want to know what they know.
To get to the bottom of this, the heroes spring out the project's maker, Edward Bailey (Anthony Hopkins). To succeed, they have to beat contract killer Han (Lee Byung-hun) and keep the bomb from agent Jack Horton (Neal McDonough). They're also joined by Russian agent Katya (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and their old CIA-partner, Victoria (Helen Mirren).
In this sequel, director Dean Parisot takes over for Robert Schwentke. As with the first film, it gives plenty of fun things for its acclaimed cast to do. In particular, Mirren has plenty of good deadpan moments while Parker is perfectly the opposite. Its action scenes were plenty of fun, especially when they're mixed with comedy.
RED 2 is suitably entertaining enough to make that slow afternoon worthwhile. Those who want to see a great cast in amazing stunts won't be disappointed. I sure wasn't.
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