Red 2 (Dean Parisot, 2013)

The sexagenarian black ops crew are being hunted again, having been framed as terrorists for knowing too much, though clearly this doesn't extend to knowing when to call it a day. Morgan Freeman has now dropped out, presumably on account of explosion overload, so it's up to Bruce Willis and John Malkovich as his Mad Murdock-alike sidekick to jet around various touristically signposted world locales trying to evade a chasing pack of assassins and corrupt CIA while also seeking to prevent World War III, rather too many years since that was a credible proposition. But then the credibility gap is so gaping in every department that the anachronism of the scenario is really a side issue, with countless elisions in the plot for the sake of convenience, not least of which is believing poor old Bruce can hold his own against the world's most dangerous martial artist. Some jolly quips between the doddering duo, and Willis's feisty wife who is in tow, do keep things light and breezy in the brief intervals between the shoot-outs and chases, but it really is very thin stuff indeed.

4/10