{"id":28528,"date":"2021-11-17T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28528"},"modified":"2021-11-16T23:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T03:39:06","slug":"red-notice-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=28528","title":{"rendered":"“Red Notice” \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\nRed Notice<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2021)\n\nDirector: Rawson Marshall Thurber<\/strong>\n\nScreenplay: Rawson Marshall Thurber<\/strong>\n

Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot<\/strong> and Ritu Arya<\/strong>.<\/p>\nTagline: Pros and Cons.<\/em>\n\nThe Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026\n

FBI agent, John Hartley (Johnson) is on the trail of Nolan Booth (Reynolds), one of the world’s top art thieves.\u00a0 What looks like a slam dunk arrest of Booth goes sideways and Hartley is left holding the bag.\u00a0 In this case the bag is one of three priceless eggs created for Cleopatra.\u00a0 In order to clear his name, Hartley becomes an reluctant partner to Booth.\u00a0 They will have to steal back the original egg as well as the other two that are in different exotic locations around the world.\u00a0 Complicating matters is The Bishop (Gadot), an art thief, also after the priceless relics.<\/p>\n

Red Notice<\/em> is a fast, fun action\/caper that doesn’t take itself too seriously.\u00a0 It is filled with tons of stunts and funny (well, mostly funny) repartee performed by likeable stars.\u00a0 There are homages to James Bond<\/em>, the Bourne<\/em> films, Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>, True Lies<\/em> and more.\u00a0 Our heroes fight with each other, Russian prisoners, each other, Interpol agents, each other, a crime lord’s guards, each other and a bull.\u00a0 They fall off a building, escape from a Russian gulag, are knocked unconscious, have a bridge blown out from under them, suffer electric shock to the groin, survive multiple car crashes, fall off a gigantic waterfall, are shot at with pistols, machine guns, rocket launchers and are never even winged.\u00a0 In fact thousands of rounds of ammo are spent and NOBODY gets hit.\u00a0 Even our heroes are terrible shots.<\/p>\n

And that is my biggest problem with the film.\u00a0 Our heroes are put in dangerous situations, but very quickly we get the sense that nothing bad is going to happen to them.\u00a0 The stakes don’t seem real.<\/p>\n

\u00a0If that doesn’t bother you, then you’ll probably enjoy Red Notice<\/em> even more than I did and I liked it.\u00a0 There are some scenes\/lines that made me laugh and even more that made me smile (far outnumbering the few that fell flat).\u00a0 I appreciated the fast pace, action and stars.\u00a0 There’s a fun plot twist that I didn’t see coming.\u00a0 \u00a0 Red Notice<\/em> has the potential for a sequel and I’d be up for that.<\/p>\n\n\n