Red Notice - Safe, Disposable, Forgettable Entertainment

Red Notice, starring The Rock, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, offers a breezy comedy adventure with a cast of likeable actors doing what they do best. But it all feels a bit safe, lazy and predictable, like there's something missing. Join me as I take a closer look.

[@TheCriticalDrinker]

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[@soyuzdavillan721]

Love getting notifications for your videos Drinker!!

[@kevins4213]

Took you long enough. This movie didn't know what it was, an action adventure bromance Indiana Jones wanna be. It was funny, but in an "oh that was a chucke" while looking up from the game I was playing. Ideal piece of disposable adventure is exactly right. What Netflix is known for.

[@geraintthatcher3076]

Nothing to do with this review but any plans to review the remastered version of the game Life is Strange that's just come out now ?

[@cbicommentbureauofinternet5290]

They made these types of film Otherwise critics like you will call them woke or other types of critics will call them racist

[@101mazz]

You shouldn't have lied and used the word "Entertainment" when talking about this movie.

[@ShortHax]

I'm not convinced this movie wasn't just an algorithm implanted in my brain.

[@Joe-xq3zu]

seems plausible

[@ainzooalgown6450]

Its a movie of proportions.

[@therealnotanerd_account2]

It was not, but it was written based in Netflix algorithms. That is why it has elements of several movies. The data in Netflix says people like "this, this and that". They probably wrote the screenplay based on these data.

[@su0tin731]

I had the same feeling that this movie was engineered by an AI. "mix-match thes actors, this director, these locations, this plot, these stupid plot twists -> boom, a movie"

[@llamabot9889]

That's how conditioning works

[@AscendantStoic]

I can already imagine the studio meeting of this movie Pitch Meeting style, it probably went something like "Get me two of the most likable male actors, a beautiful female actress, the most generic plot possible with lots of generic action and an unnecessarily high dose of contrived double-crossings, put them all in a big mixer, hold it down until it's all a colorless, odorless, insipid sludge ... DONE, now send it out"

[@TheRivieraKid]

Producer "it must have been difficult to write such a bland, generic, by the numbers movie" Screenwriter "actually it was super easy, barley an inconvenience"

[@1down4upworkshop61]

@@TheRivieraKid beat me to it :)

[@RanockIronfist]

Well then the casting directors can't follow orders. The director wanted an actress, not Gal Gadot. I swear there has to be some inoffensive beautiful female actress that can actually act.

[@muznick]

"Yeah, yeah, yeah!"

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

"B-but if it doesn't work?" "Just stir the sludge, Christ! Do I have to do your job!?"

[@C1ockwork]

Definitely one of the movies ever.

[@Sixstringman]

Its being hailed as existing.

[@dontshootmex5588]

Easily the most movie I've seen this year

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

You can watch it.

[@alexflynn4195]

It's going to go down in history as one of the many films that released that year

[@KingShark47]

Truly a movie

[@alonzo4811]

I love it that Ryan Reynolds hair is still gelled up and neatly in place while in a Siberian prison. LEGEND!

[@happykthecat7655]

I love it that the rocks hair is still non existent while in a Siberian prison.

[@slchance8839]

i love how they can climb a wall made of rock peppered in snow while their fingers arent frozen and shaking from the Siberian cold

[@joedavis6524]

The Rock manages to maintain his hairstyle as well!

[@dontcare7086]

@@happykthecat7655 why is this a comment? You are literally given razors in prison. Depending on the prison you return it immediately and a guard checks it for the blades. I used to binge watch lockup and even the highest level prisons let inmates shave but the razor blade security differs. The main way to make a shank in peison is to melt your bic razor blade into a toothbrush. And if you watch the channels of guys who just got out of prison they show you how they used bic razors to cook prison meals.

[@lucastrask2838]

Watched it with my wife. She has a soft spot for mindless drivel. We watched. She said it was OK. About a week later she saw it on offer. "Um is that any good?" I reiterated the movie to her. "No, I don't remember that."

[@NinjaRunningWild]

Wife huh?

[@drivingintothedesertuntilt3202]

@@NinjaRunningWild fleshlight

[@DeadPixel1105]

Can't tell if the comment is an insult against the film or an insult against your wife. Or both. Hilarious in any case.

[@Bonenut-1]

Mandela Effect maybe?

[@johnpaullu4844]

Wife is operating normally, this is standard for this type of movie, purge the memory and move on 👌

[@Wayner71]

"Entertainment by Committee" is the name of the game today. Whether its film, TV or music its all written by a team of passionless gits.

[@markparkinson6947]

Depends on what you watch, of course. There are all kinds of movies that exist from other countries that are completely different to another. Not to mention the various kinds of movies that exist in one particular country like the United States, or India as examples.

[@Rafa-Silva-Alt]

Another meaning is that most of this trash pieces are mostly written by the same people over and over, it's almost a cabal, pretty much like music industry. There's no experimentation, only safe bets and all the extra money goes to the one who ticks most boxes of "The Message".

[@SerMattzio]

Don't forget videogames, one of the biggest industries that has also been sucked dry by creatively bankrupt, money hungry corporate vampires.

[@tavirosu25]

And yet korean tv shows, even the ones picked on Netflix, do not care about it. As western media get's "sanatized" and made by committee, eastern media brings the new ideas!

[@TheSuperappelflap]

You forgot to mention comic books and video games

[@phoenixdzk]

It felt like it was designed by an AI that tried to stick a bunch of movies in a blender

[@oz7586]

It was like a thinktank with no passion. I can't even hate on the stars getting their bag 💰

[@Sixstringman]

Or a hivemind of far left wackos all walking on eggshells in fear of offending eachother.

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

There actually is a program to write them, so I would not be surprised if people are using it for the first draft then spending ten seconds to re-write the obvious errors, and passing it off as their work. Netflix still Greenlights just about anything scribbled on a napkin. Or at least they did before the stock price crashed.

[@pilouuuu]

Aren't most Netflix movies?

[@phoenixdzk]

@@pilouuuu most of them, sure, but this time it felt like they just took Ryan, Rock & Gal's resumes and hit frappé! It felt so low effort

[@geraq0]

"in an era in which unapologetic shittiness is now the accepted norm I guess bland mediocrity is now considered a high aspiration" that's a perfect way to sum it up. I guess that's what happens when something like the Marvel movies are considered the pinnacle of modern entertainment.

[@cantonold7014]

Hire bad writers; get bad writing. The only good thing about it being that they aren't pretentious enough to try to be anything other than bad.

[@victorcates9330]

A little variety would be nice. I used to watch a lot of independent, foreign and art films. After a while, I'd find myself craving a Van Damme or Arnie film. If marvel films are big, dumb and du jour, then bland mediocrity loses a bit of its joy. If your diet is monotonous, something that would otherwise have a lot of appeal, becomes samey because it hits most of the same notes. It speaks to the fatigue when you're forced to praise a film just for not clubbing the audience protractedly with 'the message'.

[@Markunator]

How are they considered the pinnacle? They’re just the most lucrative.

[@BakaryD]

Come on... Why do everyone always point out Marvel like it's the definition of bad movies

[@MrDalesen]

@@BakaryD Because they are hugely overrated and massively popular. Using an example nobody has heard of would be pointless

[@casketbase7750]

A “prison break / heist” plot sounds like it could actually be a lot of fun if it was done concurrently. One group trying to break out of a place, the other trying to break in. Each of them complicating the other’s plans.

[@Daniel-sy2rh]

The first die hard movie kinda fits in this

[@RanockIronfist]

That sounds like a lot of episodes from the old TV show "Leverage".

[@mrm2542]

I might steal this

[@wakerobin9215]

@@mrm2542 dew it

[@SpecialEDy]

Tenet was kind of like this.

[@ja17979]

The moment when "the best thief" Ryan Renolds was caught drinking Aviation Gin (Company Owned by Ryan Renolds) on his private island, explains exactly what kind of movie you are about to watch. The stormtrooper aim combined with 0 chance of anyone ever getting hurt makes it actually boring to watch. You know that even if Ryan Renolds were to fall into a volcano they would just make a cut to him on a beach commenting something about being smoking hot while drinking his own branded gin. Heist flick with double crosses, sexy cast and sexy locations has no right to be this boring and forgettable.

[@mikespectre4153]

Don't forget, they also featured the Rock's brand of tequila. I wish I could tell you what its called but I don't give enough of a damn to remember or look it up

[@shaneomacd7564]

@@mikespectre4153 how cringe of both of them- more salesmen than actors

[@rawheadrex1972]

Booty sweat and bust-a-nut.

[@sup9542]

This is what I hate the most about Reynolds, The Rock, Kevin Hart, all of these guys who are more marketers than actors. They are constantly selling. Reynolds even owns a marketing company. Anytime he goes viral with some bullshit, it's always a sale. And now you've got asshole celebrities like Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather hawking cryptocurrency and then pulling the rug, basically a bunch of Bernie Madoff's getting away with it.

[@Redneck_Hero]

@@sup9542 Are you saying you wouldn't hustle given the opportunity?

[@howler9171]

You know what's really funny? I watched this movie on Christmas with my family because we couldn't think of anything better to watch, and I completely forgot it existed until this thumbnail popped up. That's really the only purpose that these kind of disposable movies serve: they're not unwatchable, but not good enough to make any money in theaters, so they're thrown out onto streaming services to keep people mildly entertained for 2 hours and then forget about it a month later

[@rubix4195]

It's in the same category of the Scott Adkins films that are on Netflix: entertaining, watchable but not memorable. This one had a few more stars though and a bigger budget but, bottom line, the Debt Collector's premise was better and more memorable.

[@Czeron01]

Exact same as me, watched it with fami over Christmas just because it was there. So forgettable.

[@DarkScreamGames]

"Chrismas with my Family" sums it up really - Striking that nice middle line that parents, kids, progressive cousins and racist grandpas can all enjoy together

[@PlatinumHustle]

I had this playing in the background while boinkin a chick 🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾‍♂️

[@PlatinumHustle]

Half of my unfinished movies on Netflix, are all from smashin a chick lmfao

[@Sephaizen]

That fact that it's not loaded with modern "current year" propaganda is shocking honestly. I guess things have gotten so bad that as long as a movie doesn't do that people think its great.

[@franohmsford7548]

That's because it may be idiotically stupid but at least it's not politically baiting half the population into loathing it. It's just a harmless popcorn movie that will be forgotten about in a year.

[@demonblackfire1210]

I didn't think it was great, it was just fun. Like many peopel say, it's forgettable, but that's still better way than having bad memories of a movie that insults white men at every opportunity it gets, or some other woke propaganda

[@mintoxace5571]

Come on, Gal Gadot beating up the Rock in a dress and high heels isn’t pushing the “women can totally do anything better then men and in high heels” message?

[@franohmsford7548]

@@mintoxace5571 You didn't watch the entire film then did you! She and The Rock are PARTNERS! His character is ACTING in that scene just as he does in real life when he gets in the wrestling ring!

[@mintoxace5571]

@@franohmsford7548 unfortunately I did watch the whole thing, and her being partners with the Rock doesn’t excuse the fact that she was beating him and Ryan Reynolds up at the same time when she has the muscle definition of a movie critic.

[@JOSHONYX]

I genuinely enjoyed not having "the message" crammed down my eyeballs. Was an entertaining movie.

[@Photon_Shadow]

Women still don't get punched in the face enough while doing criminal acts. How many times have you seen the female criminal get her brains blown out? They show terrorist getting their balls shocked, but no one ever brutalizes a women going around robbing and shooting. BS

[@Tetrathegod]

But this movie is also sjw ?? Wdym

[@mengoinggodsway9024]

I found the gay references and the femdom scenes a bit much.

[@chance2413]

@@mengoinggodsway9024 the small hats put that shit in every movie. It's to slowly destroy our culture, and more importantly, make the "others" in society more powerful. You know, since that benefits the small hats. They even just got Whoopi Goldberg for questioning small hat supremacy

[@ioniordache8372]

@@chance2413 small hats 🤣

[@125kmph]

"It's a movie." is undoubtedly the best description for this movie.

[@srikanth007spl]

Is it though ? 😂

[@aaronbullock5785]

The Rock vs the Rock scene made me laugh more than the entire Red Notice movie. Thank you for the giggle

[@chriswilkinson7636]

😂😂😂😂

[@lovelessissimo]

When I watched this, I found that rather than being entertained I was relieved that no agenda was being pushed. This is what modern movies has done to me.

[@RegisTraiter]

I have a theory: Red Notice was actually written by an AI and was the initial test run for future AI-written movies. There's literally a front end accessible through an internal URL that gives you a page with checkboxes, radio buttons, drop-downs and sliders, connected to an AWS-based database and machine learning setup. An exec sits down in front of it, selects things like Genre: Action Movie, Subgenre: Heist, Number of Characters: 3, amount of THE MESSAGE: 10% and other parameters, hits the Submit button, and minutes later this tripe is spat out complete with minute scene details and suggested actors for each role. It gets emailed to all the parties involved, and we're off to make a movie. The feedback is then gathered and fed back to the AI to improve the next script that it will spit out. You don't need much more to get consoomers to consoom. All that said, while Red Notice was a paper-thin forgettable BS, it was a perfect Friday takeout movie. Put it on, pour a beer, bite into a piece of pizza, shut off your brain for a bit and it works. At least it was better than the Army of the Dead.

[@mikehunt69981]

Army of the Dead wasn't great by any means but at least it tried. Zack Snyder, if nothing else, at least has a unique feel to his movies. This movie had nothing unique. I whole heartedly believe the script was written by a bot

[@scudrat2553]

I think someone used that URL and wanted "something like Taken". Now we have Blacklight! XD

[@36424567254]

I have long been convinced that _this_ is how producers assemble summer hits each year. Ingredients: 1) some Baciata overtone probably copy-pasted from the previous year, with possible minor tempo changes 2) complete word salad of sun/beach/love/sex tropes randomly composed according to a machine learned pattern, as lyrics, 3) pick some young and good looking named artist from a scored database to "sing" the song (voice is super auto-tuned so it doesn't even matter whether he/she can actually sing it anyway) 4) add in a a video featuring said artist not dressed very much (don't forget to add multiple semi-naked dancers, if the named artist is male and thus cannot take that role himself) - and there you have it. Instant smash hit.

[@carljohan9265]

It's far more likely a symptom of having practiced hiering based on box ticking rather than talent. When people who can't write get told to make something new, they take things that are popular and mash them together without understanding why said things became popular in the first place.

[@jdsartre9520]

You might be right. How do we know it wasn't all cgi? Once it gets that good, actors will get paid for their likeness and not lift a finger.

[@SewerTapes]

"In an era where unapologetic sh!ttiness is now the accepted norm, I guess bland mediocrity is now considered a high aspiration." This is why I hate modern "cinema", with very few exceptions.

[@TheDreamfinder99]

Amen. Check out The Empty Man! Thank me later x

[@Lonovavir]

In a nutshell this is my problem with modern "entertainment". The standards are set so low that even mediocre stories get praised. Watching older shows is paradoxically awesome and depressing because I realize we could have good stories now and are intentionally denied them.

[@way-out]

The fact i couldnt even get through this brief review probably speaks for the movie itself. Kudos to you, sir.

[@Sixstringman]

The Rock is contractually obligated to appear in at least 15 movies a year.

[@fwef7445]

Rock strikes me as the type who'd just sign up to any film offered to him without even reading the script

[@SinCity2100]

Wait, I thought that was Bruce Willis's Job!!

[@ThatGuy-cb3yv]

3 have to be with Kevin hart.

[@kirra7406]

I thought he bought his own production company to keep him self employed?

[@stimpy_thecat]

You left out the zero

[@seasnek7024]

I was constantly shouting "no" and "as if" whilst laughing my ass off at each new plot point in this film. My god was it long and forgettable

[@growlith6969]

Queuing up the Beastie Boys just to have the Rock immediately wrecked the **** out was awesome. Also love the name of the little boat that Reynolds ran up on the beach.

[@sh1rty]

dammit you had me at "The Rock vs The Rock" good stuff Drinker :)

[@marshalseedov4248]

I think you’re being way too harsh it’s not a bad movie it’s easy to enjoy it’s just really safe

[@rodycaz8984]

You shout at movies? Cringe.

[@jwade4684]

Completely agree. I didn't realize that I had seen this until 3/4 way through the video. Very forgettable indeed!

[@vncube1]

I remember when Red Notice became the most popular movie on Netflix of all time. I autommatically responded "So?".

[@cobba42]

I started watching this review expecting to find out whether or not this movie could be worth my time. I soon realized that I already had seen it and forgot all about it. Ahh well, no loss there.

[@sethottoman2588]

Disposable entertainment is a better call. The movie consists of typical action sequences and flawed plot twists but it provides plenty of entertainment yet it somewhat manages to be a disposable movie that you'll have trouble remembering exists weeks later. And yeah Ryan's aptitude to deliver lines with a joking intonation without it being comedic is kinda ridiculous, Wonder Woman and the Rock were just being themselves in the movie. Even with these A list figures the movie still feels lousy to sit through, which makes for a bad writing. They could've worked a little more on screenwriting and have lesser known faces within this screenplay and it might've been something 'new'.

[@johnstrawb3521]

'Remembering weeks later'? I watched 20 minutes, dozed off, and completely forgot I had watched it until this turned up in my feed.

[@theotherdave514]

@@johnstrawb3521 yes! Made remember being alone at Thanksgiving 😭😆

[@osmanyousif7849]

The movie feels like it wants to be whatever Michael Bay makes, from where it's only meant to be CONSUMED, not WATCHED.

[@lastsinnersa8002]

When The Rock has reached John Cena levels of safe & disposable entertainment, you know things are bad.

[@Sixstringman]

Can you say that in Chinese so John Cena can read it?

[@erichurd7605]

Waiting for them to do a buddy cop film together...

[@milosilic23]

I mean... He always did the "safe and disposable".

[@mongooseunleashed]

Except now John Cena did Peace Maker.

[@halowerder3356]

@@Sixstringman Zhong Xina?

[@thedarknessmagician5234]

In all honesty, the fact that I can watch this movie and not immediately hate someone somewhere for some reason is a huge improvement over most of the movies coming out nowadays. It’s not a good film, but it at the very least isn’t a train wreck, and sometimes that’s good enough.

[@icupnibba3533]

That’s still not exactly glowing praise for people who went to film school and dedicate their whole lives to making a film. Only for it to be forgotten literally an hour after you watch it

[@theblackflame4002]

we're truly living with low bars these days. I realized that when I found myself thinking Hawkeye was the best Disney series because at the end of episode one, Clint saves Kate...a male hero saving a woman. What a refreshing bit of nostalgia.

[@noobmasterruben5167]

yeah, its fun to watch a disposable action film sometimes to forget about movies that got ruined by studios like New Mutants, TASM 2 or Fant4stic

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@noobmasterruben5167 Yeah but I can't help but think of something like the rundown when I watch this. An infinitely better movie from The Rock way earlier in his "acting" career. And just a better movie all around. I can't believe I'm looking back at like 2004 with such teary eyed nostalgia.

[@g.w.7893]

Is it though? I think you've become numb to garbage films via over-exposure.

[@andrzejkopalnia]

The general Netflix consumer was probably stunned and amazed by the reveal of Gadots role of as a agent switching the eggs!

[@petejohnson7965]

Honestly I didn't mind Red Notice. It was pretty much what I expected it to be, a silly over the top action heist movie with each actor basically playing a caricature of themselves. It kept me entertained for the runtime and didn't really leave much of an impression afterwards. At least it didn't completely kill my enthusiasm for a previously beloved franchise like a certain movie by a certain director of Breaking Bad's "Fly" fame did.

[@JohnSmith-yd5wq]

Yeah it was watchable and you didn't want to turn it off in the 1st 30mins

[@SDesWriter]

All true, but every time I watch oceans 11 or oceans 12 unstruck by how it manages to be entertaining, well-paced, and clever at the same time. The acting is impeccable and other than the two guys who fight all the time, all of the characters act in a way that seems reasonably realistic for their character arcs. I've probably seen each movie 10 or 15 times and it's always enjoyable. Red notices the kind of film that you watch and enjoy, then never think about again.

[@kevinintheusa8984]

Yeah, they let the guy direct a "bottle" episode which kills time and is supposed to develop the characters while saving cast but I didn't find it developed much of anything except it made Walt look like an obsessive moron.

[@lllTonilll]

Actually Episode 9 is even worse of a movie than Episode 8 so you cant only blame it on Rian Johnson

[@nahtesalinas1917]

Gal Gadot reminds me of the hundreds of women who've turned me down for a date. So to hell with her and her garbage movie.

[@jaha9329]

After watching a few movies starring Gal Gadot and seeing her "talent" my favorite joke about her is that she's not an actress, she's a woman working in the profession of actress. Sadly, same thing can be said about many current stars of Hollywood.

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

Yeah but she damn watchable ...

[@JstJaybeingJay]

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle that's so true.

[@riftvallance2087]

I actually feel the same way about the rock . He goes through the motions of being an actor but there is always something missing. Maybe his soul

[@davidhero1000]

At least she aint woke and actually hot unlike brie larson and another activist diversity hires

[@shooterqqqq]

It's why I am starting to see more British actors and actresses. They are schooled in their profession. I'm getting tired of mindless hollywood robots.

[@varunnarain50]

Nowadays I go by one golden rule: If it makes me feel absolutely nothing, its worthless. This movie and movies like it fall into that category, Filmento made a good point about Michael Bay films that at the very least having personality can make the audience overlook a lot of bad writing, I enjoy the first 3 Transformers movies even though part of me knows they're not good movies.

[@jaybling6687]

He didn't really say having a personality makes you overlook bad writing. More like having a personality will keep your attention and stay in your memory regardless if you love it or hate it.

[@paulh4943]

Same goes for 'Armageddon' it's awfully bad but I can enjoy it a lot.

[@varunnarain50]

@@jaybling6687 While true, though, when you are choosing to watch the movie despite the writing you are choosing to overlook it in that instance. I was also specifically talking about the transformers movies which contain a metric f*ck ton of bad writing yet manage to engage audiences enough to clear a billion dollars a piece.

[@mrdelaney4440]

The island was good, bays best I think.

[@paulh4943]

@@mrdelaney4440 bay's best was 'no pain, no gain'

[@ernestyork7328]

I watched this with my wife then literally a week later I was talking to my dad and he was asking me if I have seen it. I said no and asked him who was in it and what it was about. My wife looked at me and said we watched that last week don't you remember? I didn't. It was so bad I blacked it out of my memory.

[@PlatinumHustle]

🤣🤣

[@stevenbartel5008]

You would not have forgotten about it if it was bad. Remember star wars 7-9? Those are bad movies. This one is just so average, so boring, so much of everything

[@PlatinumHustle]

@@stevenbartel5008 I was boinkin my chick while this movie played in the background 🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♂️ still don’t even know what happened after 20 minutes in

[@booshmcfadden7638]

The movie was enjoyable in a turn-off-your-brain kind of way. It was cute, silly, predictable, and safe. I didn't hate it, this entertained me for [insert run time]. I wouldn't call it "acting," but rather characters we've seen before in several films thrown into a formulaic romp filled with tropes that piss off scrutinizing viewers such as The Drinker.

[@jerinjoseph596]

I have the same view as it was watch and forget and Netflix just requires that

[@uncaboat2399]

I wouldn't say the Drinker was _pissed off_ ... he sounded more to me as ... _disappointed_

[@DP12321]

Who would want to turn off their brain? 🤔

[@Beer_Dad1975]

I neither hated nor liked it - it's the film equivalent of a glass of water when you aren't really thirsty and would have preferred a beer.

[@MatthiasPowerbomb]

"Safe, disposable entertainment by committee." Damn is that accurate. I did appreciate that it wasn't trying to jam THE MESSAGE down my throat (aside from the typical Hollywood feminist message of a 120lb girl being able to kick any man's ass: because women!), but it was bland and just sort of average. For me it was fine if a bit too cookie-cutter and forgettable, sold entirely on the backs of the stars. As you said, it's essentially a direct-to-video caliber movie with big stars and a budget.

[@thelastminuteman7513]

The message is in there somewhere they just learned to be more subtle about it like they used to be. Besides their Chinese backers only really want "The Message" for us and this type of bland garbage for them.

[@rubix4195]

@@thelastminuteman7513 I think it's a little harsh to say its "bland garbage". Chinese cinema is A LOT different to Western cinema - it seems to be very periodic, by the numbers and ultimately shows China in a good light. Also the scope of horror is low (no supernatural or superstitious themes in films) so only certain films get played in cinema but they do have a "message" is a little different than "THE message" . Overall, anything from the West that is mindless fun is kind of a blessing (like Fast and the Furious) because - like people everywhere - you want to watch something to escape the usual stuff.

[@Trebor6127]

​@@geoffok Stop confusing movies with reality.

[@BWMagus]

@@geoffok But...Dwayne Johnson? I'm not sure he'd even feel it if she punched him.

[@theatomicpunkkid]

It also has the egg mcguffins these guys are always talking about right there in the movie! LOL

[@rednecknation]

So unbelievably forgettable. I watched it and I’m struggling to even remember half of the movie.

[@theobserver3299]

Yeah, I had to take like 2 or 3 takes to finish the movie because it was so, meh, I barley remember the plot, I can't say I remember a lot of things

[@jacevicki]

I honestly remember seeing some of it, but I'm not sure I watched all of it or gave up halfway.

[@bogatyr2473]

I know I watched it and didn't hate it but I couldn't recall a single line from it. Do remember Gal in that fur coat Siberian get up though.

[@krampusklaws2238]

What I remember about this movie... It is the rock being a mountain of meat with a dash of charm, Ryan Reynolds being Deadpool without the suit, and Gal Gadot as the boner material. And there was something about eggs.

[@MarkSheeres]

Ha ha, me too. When I saw he had a review of this movie, I remember that I had seen it but I literally didn’t remember what it was about.

[@brianmcconnell1817]

I tried watching this “movie”. I managed to get through 15 minutes of it before I completely lost interest in it. My hats off to you Drinker for getting through all of it. This is the kind of movie that could end the dreams of any young filmmaker.

[@majorgear1021]

Were you sober? if not, that was why you could make it through the movie.

[@ruicosta1037]

You need beers, pizza and a couple friends (or gf) and time will fly with these kinds of films.

[@tomlee982]

Your hard

[@jimb12312]

@@ruicosta1037 Lobotomy also works.

[@solidbeard8324]

This movie reminded me the Lupin III movies. They have a similar tone, over the top action sequences, insane heists and heck even some similarities with the characters. Also in the bloopers reel Reynolds and The Rock admitted how dumb the script is. 😄

[@KeacePeeper]

Damn now I need to see this Flick.

[@funlabd2963]

It even has the same premise 😭🤣. Interpol agent chasing a globally wanted art thief? Ain't that Zenigata and Lupin all iver again XD

[@AFKAwesome]

Basically lupin is Ryan, Fujiko is Gal and the Rock is Zenigata

[@tuskinradar8688]

Man that's a heck of an observation, cause it really is just a Bland Lupin III movie lol

[@slimsketchum]

Glad I wasn't the only one who saw the similarities, hahaha. XD

[@JohnLaudun]

Spot on breakdown of "Red Notice." The difference between your experience and mine was that I literally could not bear to watch the movie grind through gears beyond the 30-45 minute mark. I went in expecting nothing more than some enjoyable fluff and was somewhat discomfited to find myself feeling dirty so quickly, like I was guilty by algorithm.

[@coma13794]

Couldn't agree more. I think I made it a little bit further but just couldn't carry on knowing it wasn't going to deliver anything truly interesting.

[@caro1ns]

I know what you mean by 'feeling dirty'. You almost feel ashamed and think, 'Surely there are better things to do than watch this.'

[@zacharyrollick6169]

@@caro1ns "What am I doing with my life?"

[@SantoValentino]

Same. Couldn’t make it past the prison scene

[@salazam]

did you mean to say "guilty by association"?

[@danbance5799]

"2 hours of attractive and charming people being attractive and charming." was the review I sent to my kid at college after watching it. Ideal fare for a Thursday night when you've got no other plans. It asks nothing of an audience that asks nothing of it.

[@RHButler22]

For me, it was just eye candy where I was able to shut off my brain for 2 hours. Something in this day and age, I REALLY need. I found myself laughing so hard during the bull fight scene with Ryan mistaking a movie for a documentary in how to handle the bull.

[@Pfuetz4]

Same. Didnt hate it.

[@tiredman99]

Exactly. Like yeah if you think about it, the movie is pretty predictable and generic, but it's a good movie to just turn off the brain and enjoy

[@g.k.9686]

@@tiredman99 there are tons of better movies to shut your mind too though

[@Gaze73]

I don't like movies like Transformers but I too enjoyed this one, easy 7/10. If you're entertained throughout the whole time then the movie did what it was supposed to.

[@dexine4723]

There are times when i get home from work, physically and mentally frazzled, and all I want to watch while I unwind is something mindless, with likeable actors doing exciting things in colourful locations. Sounds like a perfect film for one of those occasions!

[@telecleez]

I personally thought it was just mindless fun, a popcorn movie nothing to put too much thought into just enjoyed the action. I was just happy they weren't trying to push "The Message!"

[@nenmaster5218]

Sorry for being Random af, but i wanted to make kinda a Poll to see what C-Drinker-Fans do to get Politic-News and such stuff. I use 'Some More News' not because its free but because its epic; i mean, just alone his newest ideo about Covid and roasting Politic's was awesome enough. But where do Drinkers get it from?

[@blueshellhater1845]

I saw this movie half way trough last winter, knocking down beers with a buddy in an repurposed gardening shack, which was heated by his dying PS4 on its last leg, we used to access Netflix. In the middle two more of his friends stopped by, so we collectively forgot the movie and went in the garage to play beerpong (at least thats how its called in Germany). I wasn't really paying attention, but one thing I noticed in my intoxicated state, was that no matter what, there aren't going to be serious conseqences for the main characters. They will escape the prison without dying, no matter the explosion, they'll live and no matter the conflict between them, they are going to work together. Inherently that is not a bad thing, a friend of mine absolutely loved Red Notice. But he also liked the Star Wars Sequels because the special effects looked good.

[@Pillmonger]

I’ll be honest I read the first sentence of your comment and thought this was leading into a gay porn scene 😂

[@blueshellhater1845]

@@Pillmonger lol, at least i made you laugh i guess😂

[@Gameprojordan]

You need to patent the PS4 heater idea

[@blueshellhater1845]

@@Gameprojordan im telling you, his ps4 is something else

[@mikehunt69981]

This helps prove that anybody that liked the sequel trilogy could be as easily entertained by watching me take a dump for two hours. Such unimaginative, soulless trash.

[@RangerDave1959]

Probably one of the most uninspired movies I've ever seen. It was like every one involved just phoned it in.

[@NICKRITZER]

Uninspired is the last jedi

[@RangerDave1959]

@@NICKRITZER I can't argue that, but what does that have to do with Red Notice?

[@NICKRITZER]

@@RangerDave1959 typo, meant *as* uninspired

[@AndyG73]

Opening credit: Ryan Reynolds as 'Ryan Reynolds'....The Rock 'raising his eyebrow in a close-up and headbutting a lot'...and Gal Gadot 'looking lovely but just reading a script'

[@tommybronze3451]

I've actually started watching it on netflix, and survived to when they arrested the guy and swapped the egg in the swat car ... at this point I simply though "hey I think I've got some laundry to do" and just walked away from it. Yes, it was that engaging.

[@Dotalol123]

Welcome to the modern era, people work 9-5 jobs so they give them 90minutes of entertainment where they can escape the reality and turn their brains off. Modern movies are a result of a research, 90% of viewers dont want to be engaged just entertained, so you get a bunch of movies that you watch once and forget about them, but you payed for them and everybody is happy! :)

[@tommybronze3451]

@@Dotalol123 true true

[@jerryschramm4399]

"Red Notice" is just a paint by numbers, generic action flick where you turn off your brain during it's run time, and have some mindless fun. It washes over you, and when it's done, you'll have a hard time remembering what happened within fifteen minutes. It's a live action cartoon, where the laws of physics, logic or even basic story telling are sacrificed to see (The Rock, Gal, Ryan) do something stylishly in an interesting setting. Trying to analyze all its faults is an exercise in futility, because who cares? It was neat to watch, and no animals were hurt in the making of this film.

[@the-engneer]

Lame excuse for shitty writing. This film cost enough to make they could have cut one famous face out, and used that money to hire a life time supply of good writer's

[@danieljakistam9409]

Well in that case watching it again but this time with your brain on might change your mind.

[@Elenrai]

I require my 80s action flicks to include the sacrifice of a goat!

[@dontcare7086]

This starts with a quote so was this a critic's review making excuses for a bad movie? I can shut my brain off for a b rated straight to DVD low budget movie but not a multimillion dollar big budget box office production. You expect a movie that isn't billed as a gimmick of itself to be good and have good writing at the very least.

[@TGuard00014]

Agreed. What I expected from this movie: some fun escapism that involved Ryan Reynolds and the Rock riffing on one another and Gal Gadot doing some improbable stunts but looking pretty while doing it. That’s exactly what I got.

[@Geminias]

I was okay with the film up until the point that they revealed Gal and Dwayne were dating. The film woulda been a lot better if it was just three super thieves one upping each other.

[@theeffete3396]

It wouldn't be a modern movie without some non-sensical, plot-shattering subversion.

[@ArchieGee]

Ryan Reynolds seemed like the only one who actually tried in this movie…

[@TheEmperorHyperion]

Considering his co-stars coasted on Vince McMahon and being the star of the best DCEU movie by default, that's unsurprising.

[@riftvallance2087]

Even then he didn't seem particularly thrilled to be there

[@piotrd.4850]

@@riftvallance2087 You know... Gal is intelligent woman. She is quite aware of her professional limitations and knows that for all her charm and trying, she is so type casted that her revealing clothing, body and stylists who do like 90% of the work. She's working with what she has, but doesn't mean she is thrilled about it. BTW: why she isn't in some Lara Croft movie .... is beyond me. Not to mention, that she's 36 and soon she'll start loosing her biggest selling card.

[@nenmaster5218]

@@TheEmperorHyperion Sorry for being Random af, but i wanted to make kinda a Poll to see what C-Drinker-Fans do to get Politic-News and such stuff. I use 'Some More News' not because its free but because its epic; i mean, just alone his newest ideo about Covid and roasting Politic's was awesome enough. But where do Drinkers get it from?

[@theMindwalker]

Honestly, I watched it to watch Gal Gadot move around and do things. I couldn't even remember what it was about until watching this video. I do remember hearing the director talk about how hated having rewrite the story and re-film inside a parking lot due to Covid. Apparently it was a different movie originally. But...I mean...not sure _how much different_ it could be when most everything is done with effects today anyway...

[@rickfrompawnstars5550]

Ryan Reynolds was the only one that tried in this movie

[@Avarn388]

Rick From Pawn Stars Ryan Reynolds is one of those actors I always like even in meh movies. Like Green Lantern. Not his fault but he was clearly trying. Also, he comes off as a chill guy in real life.

[@Ob1sdarkside]

Watching the rock run in this movie he looked like he'd come off a 3 week bender.

[@PiotrKuzmicki86]

He tried too much though. It was exhausting to watch.

[@Ob1sdarkside]

@@PiotrKuzmicki86 he was compensating for the rock being a rock and gadot being an absolute charisma vacuum

[@TheSchaef47]

@@Avarn388 To this day, I just can't comprehend Green Lantern. Maybe the drinker can do a post-mortem on it. Ryan Reynolds can carry a movie. I *love* Martin Campbell as a director. They showed off Oa, the Guardians, Sinestro, even Kilowog. But it's almost like you were trying to make a stew by taking five ingredients from five other stews and expecting them to work in their own stew together. One thing I know for sure I didn't like is Parallax. I hated the Parallax story in the comics, and for the movie they translated it to a giant forehead guy who turns into a CGI cloud (see also: Galactus, and to a lesser extent, Sandman)

[@TheSchaef47]

So you mentioned all these different plot contrivances and other issues with the story, and I dunno, maybe you're right about some of it. But the part that bothered me is that gasoline slowly evaporates, and loses its potency after somewhere between six months and two years, and yet they climb into a 75-year-old Nazi jeep and it starts immediately and a car chase ensues. I call this the Walking Dead Conundrum.

[@bigedslobotomy]

Ah, a fellow gear-head! My son and I were watching a movie that had a car that had been submerged in a lake. They pulled it out and they got in as if to start it. My son leaned over to me and said, “If it starts right up, I’m leaving!” It started right up. (Sigh)

[@Philistine47]

A vehicle that sat for 75 years would have a lot of problems, any one of which would be enough to keep it from starting. At least in Jurassic World they acknowledged that the old jeep's battery would be flat - and something has gone terribly, terribly wrong when your movie is dumber than Jurassic World.

[@patricklynch1962]

There are dozens of "will it start?" videos on You Tube of people trying to resurrect an old car, and not one of them stuck a key in a car that sat 10,20, 50 years and got it to start without a whole lot of prep work before firing it off.

[@patricklynch1962]

@@bigedslobotomy Like that moment in National Treasure when a ship frozen in ice for centuries can still explode even though its gunpowder couldn't possibly still be dry all that time. When I saw that, I had the same reaction your son did, turned off the TV and went and did something else. lol.

[@TheSchaef47]

@@patricklynch1962 I'm reminded of the Simpsons episode, I think it was when Otto got fired from driving the bus, when a tanker truck full of milk jackknifed, overturned on the highway... then burst into flames.

[@charlesjmouse]

This film is that modern Hollywood thing all over... When they're not trying to force "the message" down everyone's throats they're making films ass-backwards. Instead of: I've written this great story, now we need to carefully choose the best team of people for it's transfer to the silver screen. We have: Here's this silver screen, so once we hire some 'stars' to put on it we'll come up with a bit of nonsense to justify their presence. I watched RLM's reView of the original Total Recall. That exists for basically the same reason, seemingly a bit of cheap entertainment. But where this film is at best harmless nonsense, Total Recall is actually a great film the makers put everything they could in to making as good as they could. This is at best what I'd have once called a 'Friday Night Film'. It's been a long week, you're tired, you still want to go out with your friends, but frankly putting any effort in to the task is too much. So you all end up eating at Pizza Slut because it's next to the cinema, followed by watching the lowest common denominator film you can all agree on with minimal effort. "Have once called..." because these days a 'Friday Night Film' is the best you're going to get!

[@uthegentel]

Also they had Paul Verhoeven directing, who was on fire during 80's and 90's.

[@kopo7466]

Honestly, I'm just glad that a movie was made that didn't try to stuff some propaganda or idealogy down my throat and just gave me something fun to watch. In 2021(and now 2022), that's rare if not impossible to see without SJWs completely hijacking any given production, medium or any given media platform. I'll take it, it'll be a LONG time, if ever, we get to see a movie that's actually watchable again.

[@mushypork2132]

you just can't see it anymore when it's not completely obnoxious

[@Sully0020]

Like 90% of movies don't have "SJW" stuff in them. Stop being so triggered.

[@mikeboosh8776]

I'm with you on this... the film's nonsense, but it's fun nonsense, and that's a step up from being lectured. I enjoyed it, but it's still bollocks.

[@TheRayfield77]

We truly are victims of low expectations aren't we? But I agree with you. In an ocean of pure garbage, we will take the slightest glimpse of something that's mediocre or better.

[@MAGAMAN]

This was the kind of movie you could fast forward through half of and still not lose any of the plot. I know because I did that. I do like Ryan Reynolds and he can actually play a different character. I saw a movie where his daughter was kidnapped and he was a very different character for that. I think he just gets typecast as this same generic character. Just like the Rock wears pretty much the same outfits in every movie. I'm starting to think he just shows up in his own clothes for most of the films he's in.

[@PromptCritical725]

He plays against type in a couple movies off the top of my head. Self/Less and The Voices.

[@DirtySouthJR]

The Amityville Horror remake. He certainly wasn't his usual smarta$$ joking self in that one.

[@BlackAge2k]

If you like ryan reynolds perhaps you should watch "safe house", one of his best movies, really liked it, and also he played a serious type of person in it. My guess is you probably already know that movie.

[@TheScar3cro]

The thing is, Ryan Reynolds can do so much more as an actor, but ever since Deadpool studios think "oh hes funny guy. he should play funny guy." Give this man an actual acting role again and he will most likely deliver.

[@penske_material]

And I can't blame him either. They're probably giving him a shit ton of money for being himself, so there's little pressure when it comes to screwing up, and they probably let him improvise too, he's basically getting paid just to have fun.

[@SpareSomeChange8080]

Too right, it's a shame he's been typecast now.

[@boonek2418]

I work in a power plant using scaffolding all the time. That scaffolding scene made me want to scream it was so ridiculous. I thought the movie was harmless and mildly entertaining. But I'd probably completely hate it if I tried to watch it a second time. So I won't.

[@RogueFox2185]

Ryan Reynolds is the best part of this movie, he carried it on his shoulders.

[@sheadoherty7434]

I'm pretty sure at one point the rock carried ryan on his shoulders

[@ReesesPieces81]

You mean, Deadpool playing Ryan Reynolds carried the movie on his shoulders.

[@shawklan27]

@@ReesesPieces81 yes.

[@riftvallance2087]

I wouldn't even have considered watching it without him

[@theeffete3396]

All those steroids and The Rock can't even carry the movie

[@LunaticFringeReviews]

It was a generic but surprisingly watchable film. The three stars all played themselves very well.

[@wojak-sensei6424]

Quite damning that "watchable" is a challenging standard.

[@sammerry7706]

The roles* they were born to play

[@piotrswat169]

“Playing themselves”

[@rogerhalt3991]

@@sammerry7706 none of these actors have rolls, they are incredibly fit.

[@sammerry7706]

@@rogerhalt3991 heh the rice crackers the were born to play

[@Rakshiir]

Not gonna lie, I watched it and was entertained overall. It is true that this movie doesn`t take risks, the actors with their charisma sell the movie for the most part. The biggest irony might be the fact that while it doesn`t offer anything new, anything risky, just plays it safe it still is better than alot of other movies produced these days that only exist for some message or agenda. This at least just wanted to have fun, which is the basic thing a piece of entertainment should strife for. Simply by doing the bare minimum it is still better compared to so much trash that doesn`t even do that.

[@Mrgaunt1]

I agree with a lot of your sentiments. I enjoyed it for what it was and had fun.

[@JellyOnAPancakeAyyyy]

Agreed

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

safe is ok

[@ThePrince-p9b]

Completely agree, the movie is nothing special by any stretch of the imagination but I must say there isn't a dull moment. It's one of those movies you can stick on just to have a good time and nothing else.

[@deaks25]

There's always been room for mindless, easy-watching action films like Red Notice and yeah, it's not going to revolutionise anything, but that is still much better than reboots that shamelessly rinse a well-liked franchise for as much PR as it can squeeze out while gutting it's concept, story and characters for the sake of someone's agenda. A film like Red Notice, in the wrong mood, can seem boring and safe, but in the right mood it's a bit of fun.

[@bogatyr2473]

It's a background noise kinda movie. Good to leave running while you do something else.

[@paulrobbins6080]

Pretty much my thoughts. I was hoping for a fun couple of hours and it delivered on that. If you're looking for more, look elsewhere. It's a good popcorn movie, and sometimes that's enough.

[@kevinhenry7026]

That “the Rock vs the Rock” joke and edit was fantastic.

[@DhakaiyaHunter]

When a review of a film is more entertaining than the actual film... You know you're living in a f**ked up time mate!

[@Agustin_Leal]

Not this time, mate

[@MrJustinOtis]

That's been the state of the movie industry for about ten years now. It's like Hollywood is deliberately making garbage just to cater to youtube reviewers who live to excoriate this kind of stuff.

[@DhakaiyaHunter]

@@MrJustinOtis totally agree with you... But last few years (not 10 years) Hollywood big budget blockbuster movies sucks even more.

[@DhakaiyaHunter]

@Pɾσƚҽɠҽ mashallah... Really liked the video and the voice on the recitation... Subhanallah! Thnx for the link brother ❤️❤️

[@fotoguy99a]

I laughed at how you gave 4 minutes of spoilers THEN say, "now this is when I get into spoiler territory..".😂 I absolutely love your reviews, but fool me once...😉

[@trippybruh1592]

Well we weren't going to watch it anyway.

[@cameroncall5163]

"It's the kind of movie you watch when there's nothing else on.." Yeah Drinker. Yes it is. Hollywood hasn't produced anything worth watching in years. As you said: "In an era where unapologetic sh*ttiness is now the accepted norm, I guess bland mediocrity is a high aspiration." And it's exactly for that reason that I enjoyed it so much. It wasn't serious, dark, or brooding, it wasn't a remake, reboot, spin off, sequel, or prequel, and it certainly wasn't lecturing me about *_THE MESSAGE._* It was what movies used to be about... it was fun.

[@hanskneesun123]

Yes it borrowed heavily from other genres but I enjoyed it for what it was and the lack of political posturing was refreshing.

[@cameroncall5163]

@@hanskneesun123 Exactly!

[@tikussnorlax3544]

NWH?

[@Valskyr]

lotr was the last good thing hollywood made and its being perverted already by amazon

[@longexpectedjourney]

Fuck Hollywood. Go for some foreign stuff and watch Irreversible on LSD! ;)

[@edselgreaves6503]

It does push "THE MESSAGE" though. The female character gets everything handed to her, no effort necessary. The male characters only exist to be her servants, and no matter how much effort they put in, she walks in at the last minute and gets the prize and the last laugh. Her insults somehow stupefy both of them into silence even though they are both wittier and more hilarious than her stale generic cardboard cutout personality will ever be. She's good at everything and requires no exertion to make it happen because vAgInA pOwEr.

[@SeniorCebolla]

It reminds me of Spy vs. Spy vs Spy back in the day. Once the black and white spy jokes started to get stale, they brought in a gray lady spy to wring a little extra life out of a dying idea. Naturally, the lady spy always got the better of the other two. That wasn't down to "the message", but rather the fact that it was tacked on and didn't quite fit the original idea. I think this is often the case in Hollywood movies, they're looking to add this or that to the movie and don't bother to fit it in properly, but just slap it on there.

[@RanockIronfist]

I was really thinking the same thing about half-way through, but when they revealed that Gadot was actually working with Dwayne Johnson, then that idea kinda drifted away. If Johnson had always been helping her and pulling his punches, then I can somewhat believe Gadot would beat up Reynolds, the (established in story) violence adverse nerd. However, there is some real dissonance when he is a near expert fighter beating up the guards at the prison. Which one is he, competent or not? At the point of the reveal it went from this is some stupid "women can do anything" plot to throwing my hands up in annoyance and going, "I guess."

[@damian22x38]

Did you even watch the movie the rock was her husband and at the end they were working together the entire time so why the fuck would he make witty comebacks he's not a child and Ryan Reynolds was an insecure kid who only stole for the thrill and did not put much of any effort just made plans on the spot I'm not saying this is a great movie but your points are shit and actually at the end the girl didint even get the last laugh it was Ryan Reynolds literally all your points are wrong.

[@jshandorf]

Meh... Remember she is working with The Rock the whole time so that is why she is always "one step ahead" since she knows their plans in advance. Its annoying in the movie but is "makes sense" near the end when you find that out. What bothered me was the INTERPOL agent chick that just seemed to be everywhere all the time with no explanation as to how? Remember when Ryan and The Rock have to go thru this elaborate series of maneuvers to get into the bad guy's office to get into the secret vault, and then the INTERPOL agent chick just shows up with a gun in their face? How the fuck did she get in there? How did she smuggle a gun in? WTF is happening in this movie? And then Ryan and The Rock spend days smuggling themselves into Argentina and trek for days in the jungle to find a hidden underground nazi bunker and then when they do.. BOOM! INTERPOL girl shows up again! How the f*ck did she find the place? Gal Gadot found it cause she was working with The Rock, but how did this broad figure it out? Seriously.. makes no sense and it kept pissing me off. They whole thing is a mess but it was light, fun entertainment for a couple hours. I have watched far worse crap and paid for it sadly.

[@neon13602]

@@damian22x38 it just shows that people don't understand the story and/or didn't watch it and because of that they think this and that

[@shannonnezul4903]

Honestly this movie was great, why because I could give my wife attention by existing, I turned my brain off and sat on the couch and she was happy and I didn't want to scream internally. Win in my book. Lol

[@Metalton95]

Remember kids: don't just marry someone you find attractive while you're both young. Marry someone you genuinely like. Or don't get married.

[@shannonnezul4903]

@@Metalton95 i agree completely my wife begged to marry for 5 years before we tied the knot. I'm Catholic so there isn't a reset button or an option to find someone else. I can accept that my wife wants to be next to me for a couple of hours and do something nonsensical little sacrifices are good =]

[@nenmaster5218]

@@Metalton95 Good comment, Metal for Masses.

[@1stAmendmentorDie1776]

@@shannonnezul4903 Little sacrifices add up and next thing you know you're Chris watts. A ball less man with no purpose but to sustain thy wife.

[@shahzaib4011]

@@1stAmendmentorDie1776 That's a shitty way of looking at it. To each their own I suppose.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

It reminds me of how awesome The Rock was in his early stuff like the rundown a truly great action movie with plenty of comedy too. He has never again been in another movie that hit those same perfect notes. Even though it's clear with something like this he keeps trying.

[@Toomaletoopaletoostale]

Love everytime “the message” comes up. Feels like I can sense it coming but when it does, it’s still a surprise and hilariously on point, in these times.

[@PaulVandersypen]

I watched Red Notice knowing _exactly_ what I was going to see before the opening credits were done. Sometimes, watching a movie with a dumb plot is just what is needed, especially since the actors are having fun and it showed. Comparing Red Notice to other dumb, yet fun, films, such as Independence Day, or The A-Team, and I am perfectly fine with watching these kinds of films, sometimes multiple times.

[@zacharyrollick6169]

Makes sense. Sometimes I like to turn my brain off and just unwind. Not everyone is a critic. I do not need or want every movie to be complex and thought provoking. If I want to think as my entertainment, I'll play a strategy game.

[@eobardthawn6903]

Ye. I loved this movie too. I didn't really care about quality that much, I just need a good distraction with characters I care about. It did have decent humor too.

[@rimurutempest4945]

Isn’t it hilarious how they showed how hard it is to get past the security in that rich guy’s house, like all the steps they had to take with the insider information that they had, only for a cop who has np idea what’s going on to manage to follow them through all the security previously mentioned?

[@MarkRVillano]

With a cast of competent, popular, and for the most part highly likeable actors, you'd expect a bit more. It's as though Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, and Georgia O'Keeffe all got together and painted a Hunter Biden.

[@anuj5118]

I wouldnt count them as Picasso aur Van Gogh

[@Gameprojordan]

Like Mozart and Bach making a modern top 40s pop song

[@spector3881]

Dude the rock is NOT the movie equivalent of Picasso or van Gogh

[@aurex8937]

Georgia O'who?

[@fwef7445]

Is the Rock's mission to be in every film ever made? He's literally everywhere

[@johnortiz1964]

I think the Rock is taking over for Michael Caine is being in 105...106 🤔 movies every year

[@jakubrejak1114]

One thing's for sure, he'll never be in an MCU movie... cause he's coming to DC.

[@Liamo__han]

@@jakubrejak1114 Zachary Levi hates this

[@mattmodisette394]

The best part about this movie is that it convinced me to re-watch Ocean's 11. And the Tagline: "It will make you think of watching better Movies!" is probably not enough to warrant a sequel.

[@thebalancedviewlife3704]

The fact you just used their real names was one of the best ideas you've had in ages😂

[@NoFlu]

Watched it with a friend a while back and simply described it as "okay" to others. There is nothing overly good about it, but there is also nothing overly bad about it. It's a okay movie to put on when you have a bunch of people that aren't sure what they are gonna watch for a night. Didn't feel like I wasted my time, didn't feel like I've gotten something either. It is indeed, a movie.

[@nenmaster5218]

Sorry for being Random af, but i wanted to make kinda a Poll to see what C-Drinker-Fans do to get Politic-News and such stuff. I use 'Some More News' not because its free but because its epic; i mean, just alone his newest ideo about Covid and roasting Politic's was awesome enough. But where do Drinkers get it from?

[@Gameprojordan]

It is the movie ever made

[@jdsartre9520]

You wasted your time. As did I.

[@CrissyMoss]

I enjoyed Red Notice. You're right, it was safe and disposable entertainment. We laughed, and enjoyed some snacks while watching it. And that's what I hoped from it, just a fun watch. It's a pop corn movie, and sometimes that's okay.

[@99Vood99]

You hit the nail on the head with this one. Extremely generic and formulaic 2.5/5 out of movie that wasn't overly woke or filled with SJW narratives (which I suppose is a plus these days). I was really disappointed at the fact that damn near all of the 'exotic' locations were CGIed except for the Italian location. Ryan Reynolds has reached Adam Sandler levels of annoying - I don't understand how those two have a 'fanbase'.

[@jr2904]

Ryan Reynolds hasn't made anything as bad as jack and Jill, at least

[@99Vood99]

@@jr2904 Give him time, he'll get there.

[@BrazilianBikini38]

A gay male (Ryan Reynolds) hitting on a straight male (The Rock) through the whole show. The straight male is black. The woman (Gal Gadot) is middle eastern (Jewish) the smartest person around. The head of Interpol hunting them is an English born east Indian 20 year old woman (also super smart). The only straight white males are stupid, and the bad guys, and they are beaten, burned, smashed, spindled and killed in every sadistic way possible. Can any movie get MORE politically correct/woke than this?....Nope, not possible.

[@99Vood99]

@@BrazilianBikini38 I hear what you're saying that's why I said 'overly woke' but I caught the fact that Ryan Reynolds' character was suspect. I agree with you on Russians being the bad guys, would love to see North Koreans or the CCP. 😂

[@TheMusicftw1]

@@BrazilianBikini38 you are really reaching their bud

[@Arasaka]

It had plot holes you could drive a convoy through but I actually enjoyed this a lot. The "start" of the car crash had me laughing even after the movie ended. The setup for that was great, expectations subverted but in a good way. Had some popcorn, watched RR be RR, The Rock be The Rock and that was enough for me.

[@dokkivisionvids527]

Its for sure one of my favorite Aviation gin ads I've seen. Its one of those quick buck, star driven flicks Brangelina would have been in. Kinda got me a bit nostalgic for the 00s. Nowadays the "Star Vehicle" is a Netflix thing, thanks to the limiting of midlevel budgeted theatrical films and the success of Bird box. One more note, if the Rock walks in the room like he owns the place, he owns the place.

[@TertiusOculusOris]

I loved Ed Sheeran's scene when he's telling ppl he was in GoT though, lol. I found this movie enjoyable enough. Knew what I was getting into when I watched it. Simple, casual, not serious, fun. Could have been better but def could have been worse. Thanks for your review Crit Drinker!

[@safi6749]

Watch movies that demand you to spend your braincells then

[@thebatman4279]

I hated it but that's probably due to my eternal dislike of him lol.

[@limerumpus3589]

@@safi6749 why do people have to watch movies that make them think sometimes you just wanna relax lol

[@safi6749]

@@limerumpus3589 only movies I have been watching recently is Mind fuck ones You do have a point but when mindsets like this last for longer mindless movies become a norm

[@doublep1980]

All of the Drinker's questions about the story making no sense at all, can be summed up with: *''BECAUSE THE MOVIE NEEDS TO HAPPEN...''*

[@rollogic2988]

6:00 was outta nowhere I literally LOL'd. Clever there dear Drinker!

[@artpoet9915]

I watched this with my mom and figured something out about Ryan Reynolds. If you don't like his personality, his movies are awful. If you like his personality, he never disappoints because he is a modern Bill Murray who doesn't actually act but just reads his lines with charisma

[@rnettles6241]

It would be interesting to see Ryan cast in a serious, iconic role... Say Don Corleone in a Godfather remake. --I mean, even if he could play it seriously, you'd be laughing through the the whole thing. Stereotyped for life; and making bank the entire way.

[@Bill308A10]

Personally I think Ryan’s been playing van wilder for that last 15 years and sorry but I hate his cocky attitude like he’s the shit and that’s that.

[@gamemediafan1714]

@@rnettles6241 Watch the movies Buried (2010) and Safe House (2012). Both movies have him give good dramatic performances. Buried especially is fucking great.

[@SmootherThanSilk]

@@rnettles6241 Watch "The Voices" (2014 I think), Ryan Reynolds is great in that. He plays a mentally disturbed person, don't want to spoil anything else. But just be warned, it's nothing like his usual films.

[@gamemediafan1714]

@Kiwami Kyuubi No one cared about it but that doesn't mean it's a bad movie. Both Reynolds and Denzel Washingon are great , and have good chemistry.

[@crzrck]

I love how someone like you has put all the movie critics out of business...Siscal and Ebert are rolling in their graves.... I. Love it.

[@tusharbhat2367]

I look to forward to the Drinker's reviews more than the actual movie. Hail the drinker!

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

More care and skill went into his 11 minute script then went into this movie.

[@joker12661]

1:54 "Shiet!" 🤣🤣🤣, oh man, that blindsided me!

[@olandir]

My wife really wanted me to watch this movie and I was definitely interested since it had the Rock and Ryan Reynolds and I like them both and I did expected an action comedy that didn't take itself too seriously and it delivered but halfway through I literally turned to my wife and said "I can't watch this any more". It was around the time they broke out of jail and I realized the Rock's character wasn't doing anything a real FBI agent would do in that moment (so he must be a bad guy too) and I sort of just figured out what would happen next and knew how predictable it would be after that. My wife had already seen the movie multiple times so she wasn't mad that I stopped it, just kind of annoyed because I overanylized it. Part of me think she's righr, but part of me was like... I really have a lot of things I could be doing other than watching this movie to completion. I think I was just annoyed because I felt like I was wasting my time. This review really captured how i felt about the movie. It wasn't "bad" it wasn't preachy, it was just a movie designed to be a fun rompt. It didn't take itself seriously so there wasn't anything specifically "wrong" with it. It's just...I don't watch a lot of new movies or shows any more, so if I'm going to watch something new, I want it to be "great" not "ok".

[@merrylderrickson3147]

is this review a metaphor for the film? It's punctuated and structured and communicated perfectly...but....there's just nothing here. If yes, well done. If no, sorry.

[@TheSchaef47]

The difference between a movie like this and movies like Oceans Eleven that make them more plausible, is that Red Notice is a plan full of things that shouldn't work, but luckily they do, whereas in Oceans they spend a considerable amount of time developing their plan and figuring out how it should work, and then almost immediately, something goes wrong with the plan, and they have to adjust their plan or even improvise on the spot to get around it. The latter treats you like you're smart, by showing the characters being smart and allowing you to sit in on their conversations. The former deliberately withholds information only to spring it later and congratulate itself for fooling you. Turns out the bad guy's plan was just to get you to do all the heavy lifting and get all the artifacts into one place in order to swoop in at the last minute and launch its evil plan. It's the Final Fantasy Bad Guy Scheme.

[@TheRayfield77]

Don't try this at home kids.

[@CrazyMazapan]

That's because Ocean's Eleven is a remake of a movie written in the 60s, when they took trouble developing a script

[@TheSchaef47]

@@CrazyMazapan then the principle still applies, and applies in both cases. It also applies to both versions of The Italian Job. Good movies - remakes or otherwise - still exist today; it's not like good scripts just vanished 40 years ago. The bad movies of yesteryear have faded from the public eye - or been made into MST3K episodes - while the bad movies of today are right in our face. Plus the numerous platforms that are now producing original content of varying quality, and the endless marketing and promotion of everything everywhere at all times. So we've forgotten about the whatever percentage of bad stuff from back then and are pummeled with reminders of the 95% of bad stuff coming out every new day. Meanwhile, all I was doing was commenting on a comparison of two particular movies. Examples that Drinker himself invoked.

[@jarnodatema]

“A jeweled egg that once belonged to Cleopatra.” Jesus Christ

[@I_Don_t_want_a_handle]

I don't think Jesus ever said that ...

[@jarnodatema]

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle you just watched his video

[@oldgreybeard5301]

1:51 - 1:57. You damn near made me spit out my drink. Well played, Drinker. Well played.

[@Dampfaeus]

I already forgot this movie existed until you made this review about it. Though, I liked the light-weight, safe action movie without too many consequences or high stakes and drama. This movie is something I could easily rewatch (if I remember it exists) and be entertained all over again.

[@egomania2792]

Oh yeah, I remember watching that movie. Which is probably more than most people do. My verdict: This is a movie. Also, I remember gritting my teeth through Ryan Reynolds. I mean, I'm glad he found his niche, but his niche happens to be "Just Deadpool" and Deadpool simply doesn't fit into every fucking movie.

[@jts8053]

What makes me nuts is that movies LOVE to "invoke" INTERPOL for these global heist flicks. INTERPOL does NOT arrest people and doesn't have things like SWAT. They are intel-only, working with different countries agencies. Clive Owen's "The International" is about the only film I've seen that gets them close to right.

[@muznick]

That's a cool movie.

[@chuchuokeke]

Ah yes another actor that could have been an excellent Bond but chose not to.

[@rovhalt6650]

The best part about this era of awful low quality movies is to be able to read all the hilarious comments that get posted on videos like this.

[@farlonmuentes6004]

the only thing ran through my head when they revealed the "twist" is they could've died so many times when they were escaping the prison. they literally didn't need to do all of that just to get ryan reynolds' trust. it's so dumb that's it's an obvious shoehorned twist. they could've not include that and the whole movie won't change. that little "we were working together all along" did little to no impact to the rest of the film. the writers of this movie doesn't know how twists work.

[@a.cobbaut9711]

There’s a lot more wrong with it. Interpol has prisons in Siberia now? The prison seems to have been there for at least decades, but the prisoners are still required to build parts of the outer wall? And Ryan just happens to be put at work building part of that wall at the exact location where they can escape to a helicopter? And prison guards have AK47 and rocket launchers as weapons? And this is just what is wrong with 10 minutes of this movie.

[@Jaaayzen]

the writers didn't even try because they didn't have to. The movie's banner on netflix was a picture of reynolds, the Rock and gal gadot, that's why people watched it and that was the whole strategy. There was no deeper meaning in this, the actors alone sold this shit (and it worked).

[@uranus1570]

@@a.cobbaut9711 to be fair, it was a russian prison, so it's normal for them to have AKs. Also, it's russian prison so it's not surprising that prison commander in the middle of nowhere knows people who can get him rocket launcher from army warehouse. Last year some retired general stole propellers from his battleship (was caught while replacing them with cheap version). 2 years ago someone have stolen some communication devices from russian nuclear warfare command plane. Few years ago i've heard of the whole battleship stolen from secret harbor when russian army was doing some sort of audit. And as far as i can remember (watched this movie few months ago) the Interpol lady said something like "i hate you so much that i've pulled some strings to get you to the worst prison i know". And she is a high rank so know people from other organizations and had means to pull this off. Also this prison was high in the mountains with freezing temperatures so maybe there is a valid reason for constant need of fixing the walls (low budget for modern fix, labor for inmates, high speed of winds increasing the weathering of top of the walls). Siberia is a region where you have huge amplitudes of temperatures: from -60 celsius to +35, frozen patches of land that slide away when it gets warmer so there is space for natural damage.

[@a.cobbaut9711]

@@uranus1570 That's a lot of pretzel twisting logic to explain just 10 min of this film ...

[@uranus1570]

@@a.cobbaut9711 "pretzel twisting logic"? i think you just lack a perspective. 1. people are in general petty and prone to abuse power: - Hoover as director of FBI hated chaplin and abused power just for fun - USA justice system (police, prosecutor, judge, everyone involved) murdered obviously innocent black kid just because he was black and they were racist (against black people) - Obama, as president, abused power to attack police officer who shot some criminal just because that criminal was black and Obama thoguht it would improve his ratings (at that time it was a hot topic) - in Poland the main prosecuter have destroyed career of surgeon, pulled a lot of strings to prosecute him just because of hatred and when that failed he pulled more strings to affect his career - Poland as a country is officially stating that human rights are bullshit just because it gives few guys from government an edge in one minor case - somewhere in Africa justice system executed goat just because some police officer claimed that this goat is a criminal who happened to be a shaman and turned himself into the goat 2. Russia is very corrupted in general, has huge area and huge military force. Military equipment missing and sold on black market is nothing unusual. Commander of prison is influencial man so if he wants rocket launcher he can get rocket launcher. 3. There are very strict prisons all around the world (e.g. USA has Guantanamo where they can abuse human rights all they want), Russia has planty of them and it's not unusal to have heavily armed guards. 4. In some parts of the world prisoners have to do labor for various reasons. Free manpower, incresing discipline, decreasing strength and resistance, punishment, sadism. Prison from the movie didn't have much to offer in this area so fixing walls in ineffective way seems plausible. Busy and tired prisoners are easier to handle. This movie has a lot of problems, but these things are just normal.

[@heraldofwar]

If you like basic buddy cop and dumb plot with Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson who plays himself then this is the movie for you! This is the minimal effort popcorn movie.

[@vocalcalibration8033]

It really does sadden me I can genuinely compliment a movie for not shoving *"the message"* down my throat as though it's an accomplishment. What's worse that's the highest praise I have for the film short of it being just okay.

[@Lonovavir]

That shows you how much our standards have been lowered. The kick to the head is series like Cobra Kai, The Expanse and movies like Dune 2021 show us it's possible to write good stories, we're being denied them intentionally.

[@sup9542]

I enjoyed the movie for what it was. When Gal Gadot kicked both their asses, I thought oh no, here we go. They had to do it. Gal kicking The Rock's ass, the most ridiculous scene ever. But then they saved it by having them in cahoots.

[@monie3558]

@@sup9542 The Rock was jumped into flying helicopter, they both survived a missile being shot at it, he gets hit by a bull and goes on with his day like nothing happened, they both get shot at up close and not only do they not get hit, but a shot hits the handcuff. Skinny Ryan Reynolds beats up trained prison security. Why do these movies suddenly need to be realistic when a woman is on screen???

[@sup9542]

​@@monie3558 Because women being better than men at everything in movies is a trend. It's just a "spot the political message" thing. I would hope that if I were a woman, I'd find it condescending, like you don't have to pretend women are superior to men. Because what does that mean - are women just lazy and don't work out enough to beat men in sports? Why aren't women dominating the NBA? Are they just lazy? In the old days movies would have women beating men by outwitting them - they should go back to that.

[@stephanien6237]

I chuckled once, maybe twice. Ryan Reynolds’ line about getting a Shawshank jacket if he gets once more escape from prison… I can barely remember much else. Popcorn movie.

[@Bad_Llama]

I love how you perfectly inserted that clip from Enemy Mine. I really liked the pairing of Dennis Quaid and Louis Gosset Jr. but Red Notice was just a way to spend a couple hours. Please do a review of Enemy Mine!

[@RatFacedJasper]

I suspect that if you added up all the moments of backstabbing, reversals and general outsmarting each other, they'd all add up to show each character look equally capable.