People have lamented the growing sensation that Netflix increasingly makes product that’s designed to be watched with a phone in your hand, and I’m not sure I’ve ever felt this more strongly than while watching “Red Notice.” Made for $200 million, none of that fortune was spent on anything that retains a human touch-it’s the iPhone app of action movies. Oh, there’s a lot of running and a lot of banter, but it starts to blend into cinematic paste. It feels like everyone thought casting would be all it took to make “Red Notice” charming and then forgot to give their actors charming things to actually do. He needs to figure out what's next because he seems to be tired of parts like this one and he's too charismatic to convey tired for the next chapter of his career. Reynolds makes out a little better, but you can almost see him growing weary of his attempts at witty schtick as more of his attempts at humor thud than usual.
Johnson has never been this wooden, unable to find the hero or everyman in a non-character. Thurber’s direction seems to have been simply to put Reynolds, Johnson, and Gadot on camera and allow their screen presence and familiar techniques to carry the story, and one can literally see the weight of that on their shoulders. They battle the authorities, a few bad guys, and another criminal mastermind nicknamed The Bishop ( Gal Gadot) as they bounce around the world, trying to obtain all three eggs and sell them to the highest bidder.įilms like “ Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “ National Treasure” were clear inspirations on “Red Notice” but to say this movies lacks the identity of great action/adventure movies would be an understatement. In the film’s relatively effective opening sequence, Hartley catches Booth trying to steal one of the eggs, inadvertently tying the two for the rest of the film into a classic buddy comedy dynamic-the muscle guy and the fast talker. Only two have been discovered, making the missing golden egg into a Holy Grail for treasure hunters, including one of the world’s most notorious criminals Nolan Booth ( Ryan Reynolds).
The film opens with an awkwardly inserted info dump about three coveted eggs that were once the property of Cleopatra. Thurber, the director of “ Central Intelligence” and “ Skyscraper” (two movies I enjoyed enough on their own terms, for the record), reunites with his muse, Dwayne Johnson, who plays the FBI’s top profiler John Hartley.
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