RED 2
Short description
RED 2 follows Frank Moses, a retired CIA operative who is pulled back into the field when a portable nuclear weapon goes missing. Reuniting his old team of retired agents, Frank sets out to track down the device before it falls into the wrong hands. Their search takes them across several cities, among them London, Paris and Moscow, and pits them against assassins, terrorists and government officials who all want the weapon for themselves. The group has to rely on its old-fashioned methods and its members' experience to stay alive while hunting for the truth.
Dean Parisot directs this 2013 action comedy, the fifth feature in his filmography after Home Fries, Galaxy Quest, ATF and Fun with Dick and Jane, and before Bill & Ted Face the Music. The screenplay is by Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber, and the cast is led by Bruce Willis as Frank, John Malkovich as Marvin Boggs, Mary-Louise Parker as Sarah Ross, Helen Mirren as Victoria and Anthony Hopkins as Bailey. With a budget of 84 million dollars, the film took in 148 million dollars worldwide.
On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.6 from around 188,000 votes, and on TMDB a 6.5 from roughly 4,400 votes. A critics' rating of 5.5 from 154 reviews places it somewhat lower than the audience scores. The film runs 116 minutes and was produced in Canada, the United States and France.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming of the sequel began on September 14, 2012, at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. The building, completed for the 1976 Summer Olympics, like many multi-purpose stadiums built in the seventies, is used relatively rarely. Its concrete vaults resemble a bunker, making it a perfect fit for the role of a secret MI-6 headquarters.
- Filming in Montreal lasted 14 days, and among the locations was a mansion depicting Frogs’ Parisian residence. It was built in 1914 by architect Jean-Omer Marchand on Wood Street, in the fashionable Westmount district.
- Most of the Parisian filming revolved around a car chase. The scene takes place on a bridge east of Notre Dame Cathedral. An old Citroën was specially adapted to drive down the steps directly to the Seine.
- The interiors of the Kremlin were created in one of the docks in East London. The building, constructed in the early eighteenth century as a warehouse for tobacco brought from the New World, served as a shopping center in recent years until it closed several years ago. The basement floor with brick vaults perfectly conveyed the gloomy atmosphere needed for this scene.
- The Kremlin clock shows 12:24 for the first time (1:08:09 in the film), 12:18 the second time (1:08:16 in the film), and 9:38 the third time (1:08:22 in the film).
- Brian Cox (1 film) and Anthony Hopkins (3 films) have played Hannibal Lecter in adaptations of Thomas Harris' novels: "Manhunter" (1986), "The Silence of the Lambs" (1990), "Red Dragon" (2002), and "Hannibal" (2001).
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