RED Retired and Extremely Dangerous

I went to see this movie not knowing what RED stood for. I caught the movie during a matinee. There were a lot of old people in the audience. When I realized that RED stood for Retired and Extremely Dangerous, it made sense as to why there were so many elderly viewers there. When I saw the A Team, there were a lot of teenage boys, and when I saw Takers, which had a lot of black main characters, there were a lot of black people in the audience.

It seems people like to go see movies about themselves. I heard that Buffy the Vampire Slayer didn't get as many male viewers as female, and that the spin off from the show, Angel, whose main character was male, had a lot of male viewers.

If I made movies, to reach the widest audience, I would have characters that were young and old. I would have white, Latino, black, and Asian, male and female characters, etc. I would just try to attract the widest audience possible. But, come to think of it, Angel was a character in Buffy, but that didn't seem to help bolster male viewership. Maybe it matters most who the main character is. In that case I would make my main character be whoever could attract the widest demographic. How boring and strategic though. Losing art for business.

This movie is about a retired CIA agent, played by Bruce Willis, who leads a calm relaxing life, talking on the phone to a girl he has a crush on in a call center. Puttering around the house, having calm relaxing mornings eating breakfast. That all changes for him fast, when he is faced with people trying to kill him. He also finds a list of names through a clue left by a dead reporter. His name is on this list. Most everyone on this list has been murdered recently. In this movie, he has to figure out why they are trying to kill him, and how all the people on the list are connected.

It's an action packed movie, with a lot of investigation work on top of shooting and fight scenes. I kind of liked the movie alright, but, it didn't leave much of an impression and it wasn't too memorable. I also thought a lot of the side characters that hung out with Bruce Willis seemed weird and unbelievable as real people. They were comical though, but It would have been better if they were somehow more normal, rather than strange side kicks. It made the movie more of a joke. The main characters didn't have the fear of someone trying to kill them either. It seemed like they had fun with the circumstances and enjoyed it.

In reality, this movie was a serious matter, they were trying to kill him. "They" being the CIA he used to work for. The CIA can just go around killing people, and on whose orders? This movie showed that the CIA received their orders to kill all the people on the list from almost the top of the government. The reason to have them killed was unethical. The CIA couldn't question it though, they had their orders. Could the government be corrupt like this?