Commentary – Red

…once again the love affair between a graphic novel and Hollywood has been consummated to satisfaction.

Bruce Willis plays Paul Moses who is a retired CIA agent. Although the back story for his early retirement is rather mundane and never becomes a plot point, the opening montage does a good job of showing us that although he’s living among average suburbanites, he’s not feeling content. The highlight of his month is pretending his pension check has not arrived, giving him an excuse to call Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker), a customer service, paper pusher who has no idea she even inadvertently works for the CIA. Their understated, flirtatious phone romance, picks up speed after assassins come to kill Moses in the middle of the night. In shadows of darkness… Full Post on PFS site