Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast: Dwayne Johnson , Ryan Reynolds , Gal Gadot , Chris Diamantopoulos , Rafael Petardi , Ritu Arya , Ivan Mbakop , Vincenzo Amato , Daniel Bernhardt , Andrew Hunter , Yosef Podolski
Plot: In the world of international crime, an Interpol agent attempts to hunt down the world's most wanted art thief with help from rival thief to capture but nothing as it seems as a series of double-crosses ensues.
My Movie Review: The movie is over the top actioner with three star power actors the escape from the prison in winter backdrop is my favorite scene the shooting action packed memorable! Red Notice is one of the biggest film offering Netflix that time it premiered and had such a huge $200 million budget to back it all up a grand action comedy that meets the goal of entertaining and amusing but don't expect some big meaningful movie, its a comedy it's just fun to watch! As far as celebrity appeal goes, Red Notice checks a lot of boxes it stars Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), and The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), all of whom more or less play themselves in a silly fancy kind of way that caught in heist and chase of a thief faster!! Why do critics hate Red Notice? shallow and in your face as is a mindless entertainment built on silly jokes, a thin plot, visual effects, window dressing, Red Notice is 117-minute distraction, easily forgotten in half that time as content collapsed when I watched this action-minute movie on a rainy afternoon and was just about perfect for the time and place with no other distraction! Featuring a frantic museum foot-chase, a prison break from a mountain-top fortress, and a hi-tech heist at an überswanky villains' masked ball makes this bigger on spectacle of visual treat! Red Notice is content to merely mimic the rhythms and pacing of a fun movie the same way Ryan Reynolds has become adept at delivering lines that humour makes' him popular relevant!
Critics Consensus: Red Notice's big budget and A-list cast add up to a slickly competent action comedy whose gaudy ingredients only make middling results more disappointing. The biggest surprise of 2021 for me none of the trailers really grabbed my attention but damn does the movie work. With its charm, great humor, & excellent chase sequences that add some amazing adrenaline! Give me more of The Rock, Gal, & Ryan!! If you want some substance to your fun that calls to memory Spielberg’s Indiana Jones films or even the weaker, but still engaging, National Treasure movies, then this isn’t your movie. Red Notice is an enjoyable action diversion. The most expensive and successful Netflix original film yet, watching Red Notice is like watching the feature-length version of a fake movie inside another movie; its cliched, over-the-top, and plays out like a parody of itself. Red Notice is one of those absurd Abbas-Mustan-style campfests with so many random twists and double-crosses that only great actors or terrible actors can pull them off. Efficiently kills a couple of hours without stealing our hearts. Red Notice is vastly less than the sum of its parts, with the central trio saving it from mediocrity. It's a perfectly acceptable and decently entertaining 200 million action epic, but nothing more. This blatantly silly movie is the absolute best possible version of itself it's funny, has some exciting chase scenes, and is altogether the Platonic ideal of a 7/10 movie honestly:)
