Red

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Red or Retired: Extremely Dangerous. Referring in this case to former CIA operative Frank Moses (Bruce Willis). The high point of Frank's retirement is when he gets his pension check. Because then he can rip it up and claim it never arrived so that he has another opportunity to talk on the phone with his case worker, Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker). Of course when a wetwork team arrives at his house in the middle of the night that all ends. Now he's on the run with Sarah, marked for death and hunted by the CIA's new best agent William Cooper (Karl Urban). Luckily Frank still has a few friends from back in the day who are also "retired"...

A very fun action/dark comedy. Helen Mirren as an elite former MI-6 sniper, John Malkovitch's super-paranoid Marvin and Brian Cox's agent turned diplomat Ivan are especially high points. Plus there is just a great fight between Willis and Urban, a high point in a movie full of excellent action scenes...