I'm not really a Bruce Willis fan, but I have to say, this film allows him to play his standard role and it just kind of works. He's playing the same character basically as in Fifth Element, but it doesn't seem repetitive. It seems, on seeing Red 2 just now for the second time, that the actors are truly having a romp here, and - unlike the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith, for example, where it seemed that the film was made simply so Brad and Angelina could have a good time, at our expense - somehow we were in on the romp here. It is a great fun movie to watch. I just don't think it would be possible for a director to have kept the combination of Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Mary-Louise Parker, David Thewliss, Neal McDonough and Catherine Zeta-Jones in a totally wired plot from being entertaining, and I have to hand it to Dean Parisot and the Hoeber brothers for not clamping down on them too hard. I mean, what kind of a cast is that? It's crazy! And it seems apparent that there was room given for a certain amount of improv, such as Anthony Hopkins' little march/dance at a certain point of the film. Just really great stuff that keeps on coming.
