Red Notice - Safe, Disposable, Forgettable Entertainment
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2022
- 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.
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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.
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 ?
They made these types of film
Otherwise critics like you will call them woke or other types of critics will call them racist
You shouldn't have lied and used the word "Entertainment" when talking about this movie.
Definitely one of the movies ever.
Its being hailed as existing.
Easily the most movie I've seen this year
You can watch it.
It's going to go down in history as one of the many films that released that year
Truly a movie
I'm not convinced this movie wasn't just an algorithm implanted in my brain.
seems plausible
Its a movie of proportions.
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.
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"
That's how conditioning works
I love it that Ryan Reynolds hair is still gelled up and neatly in place while in a Siberian prison. LEGEND!
I love it that the rocks hair is still non existent while in a Siberian prison.
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
The Rock manages to maintain his hairstyle as well!
He probably "something about Mary'd" his hair. Ryan Reynolds would have plenty of "hair gel" supply in the slammer.
@@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.
"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.
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.
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'.
How are they considered the pinnacle? They’re just the most lucrative.
Come on... Why do everyone always point out Marvel like it's the definition of bad movies
@@BakaryD Because they are hugely overrated and massively popular. Using an example nobody has heard of would be pointless
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"
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"
@@TheRivieraKid beat me to it :)
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.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah!"
"B-but if it doesn't work?"
"Just stir the sludge, Christ! Do I have to do your job!?"
It felt like it was designed by an AI that tried to stick a bunch of movies in a blender
It was like a thinktank with no passion. I can't even hate on the stars getting their bag 💰
Or a hivemind of far left wackos all walking on eggshells in fear of offending eachother.
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.
Aren't most Netflix movies?
@@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
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
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.
Exact same as me, watched it with fami over Christmas just because it was there. So forgettable.
"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
I had this playing in the background while boinkin a chick 🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾♂️
Half of my unfinished movies on Netflix, are all from smashin a chick lmfao
The Rock vs the Rock scene made me laugh more than the entire Red Notice movie. Thank you for the giggle
😂😂😂😂
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."
Wife huh?
@@NinjaRunningWild fleshlight
Can't tell if the comment is an insult against the film or an insult against your wife. Or both. Hilarious in any case.
Mandela Effect maybe?
Wife is operating normally, this is standard for this type of movie, purge the memory and move on 👌
"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.
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.
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".
Don't forget videogames, one of the biggest industries that has also been sucked dry by creatively bankrupt, money hungry corporate vampires.
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!
You forgot to mention comic books and video games
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.
The fact i couldnt even get through this brief review probably speaks for the movie itself. Kudos to you, sir.
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.
The first die hard movie kinda fits in this
That sounds like a lot of episodes from the old TV show "Leverage".
I might steal this
@@mrm2542 dew it
Tenet was kind of like this.
The Rock is contractually obligated to appear in at least 15 movies a year.
Rock strikes me as the type who'd just sign up to any film offered to him without even reading the script
Wait, I thought that was Bruce Willis's Job!!
3 have to be with Kevin hart.
I thought he bought his own production company to keep him self employed?
You left out the zero
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.
🤣🤣
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
@@stevenbartel5008 I was boinkin my chick while this movie played in the background 🤣🤣🤦🏾♂️ still don’t even know what happened after 20 minutes in
The general Netflix consumer was probably stunned and amazed by the reveal of Gadots role of as a agent switching the eggs!
So unbelievably forgettable.
I watched it and I’m struggling to even remember half of the movie.
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
I honestly remember seeing some of it, but I'm not sure I watched all of it or gave up halfway.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
@@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!
@@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.
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. 😄
Damn now I need to see this Flick.
It even has the same premise 😭🤣. Interpol agent chasing a globally wanted art thief? Ain't that Zenigata and Lupin all iver again XD
Basically lupin is Ryan, Fujiko is Gal and the Rock is Zenigata
Man that's a heck of an observation, cause it really is just a Bland Lupin III movie lol
Glad I wasn't the only one who saw the similarities, hahaha. XD
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.
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! :)
@@Dotalol123 true true
I genuinely enjoyed not having "the message" crammed down my eyeballs. Was an entertaining movie.
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
But this movie is also sjw ?? Wdym
I found the gay references and the femdom scenes a bit much.
@@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
@@chance2413 small hats 🤣
"It's a movie." is undoubtedly the best description for this movie.
Is it though ? 😂
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!
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...
When The Rock has reached John Cena levels of safe & disposable entertainment, you know things are bad.
Can you say that in Chinese so John Cena can read it?
Waiting for them to do a buddy cop film together...
I mean... He always did the "safe and disposable".
Except now John Cena did Peace Maker.
@@Sixstringman Zhong Xina?
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.
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
@@mikespectre4153 how cringe of both of them- more salesmen than actors
Booty sweat and bust-a-nut.
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.
@@sup9542 Are you saying you wouldn't hustle given the opportunity?
1:54
"Shiet!"
🤣🤣🤣, oh man, that blindsided me!
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.
I agree with a lot of your sentiments. I enjoyed it for what it was and had fun.
Agreed
safe is ok
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.
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
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.
dammit you had me at "The Rock vs The Rock" good stuff Drinker :)
I think you’re being way too harsh it’s not a bad movie it’s easy to enjoy it’s just really safe
You shout at movies? Cringe.
Completely agree. I didn't realize that I had seen this until 3/4 way through the video. Very forgettable indeed!
I remember when Red Notice became the most popular movie on Netflix of all time.
I autommatically responded "So?".
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!
Also they had Paul Verhoeven directing, who was on fire during 80's and 90's.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
@@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.
Is it though? I think you've become numb to garbage films via over-exposure.
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...😉
Well we weren't going to watch it anyway.
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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.
Yeah it was watchable and you didn't want to turn it off in the 1st 30mins
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.
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.
Actually Episode 9 is even worse of a movie than Episode 8 so you cant only blame it on Rian Johnson
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.
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.
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
I think someone used that URL and wanted "something like Taken". Now we have Blacklight! XD
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
"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.
Amen. Check out The Empty Man! Thank me later x
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.
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.
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.
Same goes for 'Armageddon' it's awfully bad but I can enjoy it a lot.
@@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.
The island was good, bays best I think.
@@mrdelaney4440 bay's best was 'no pain, no gain'
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.
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.
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.
Yeah but she damn watchable ...
@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle that's so true.
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
At least she aint woke and actually hot unlike brie larson and another activist diversity hires
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.
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'.
'Remembering weeks later'? I watched 20 minutes, dozed off, and completely forgot I had watched it until this turned up in my feed.
@@johnstrawb3521 yes! Made remember being alone at Thanksgiving 😭😆
The movie feels like it wants to be whatever Michael Bay makes, from where it's only meant to be CONSUMED, not WATCHED.
The fact you just used their real names was one of the best ideas you've had in ages😂
6:00 was outta nowhere I literally LOL'd. Clever there dear Drinker!
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!"
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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.
Same. Didnt hate it.
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
@@tiredman99 there are tons of better movies to shut your mind too though
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.
Amazed to hear there's sequels coming! To me it was unwatchable after first 10 minutes.
I like that edit at the end. Good work!
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.
I have the same view as it was watch and forget and Netflix just requires that
I wouldn't say the Drinker was _pissed off_ ... he sounded more to me as ... _disappointed_
Who would want to turn off their brain? 🤔
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.
Ryan Reynolds was the only one that tried in this movie
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.
Watching the rock run in this movie he looked like he'd come off a 3 week bender.
He tried too much though. It was exhausting to watch.
@@PiotrKuzmicki86 he was compensating for the rock being a rock and gadot being an absolute charisma vacuum
@@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)
Watched this during a 12 hour drive cross country for thanksgiving last year. You just reminded me this existed. To be fair to it though, it was a good way to fill time i would’ve otherwise spent staring out a window.
Thanks for the Alcatraz / The Rock sequence. Made my morning
"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.
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.
@@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.
@@geoffok Stop confusing movies with reality.
@@geoffok But...Dwayne Johnson? I'm not sure he'd even feel it if she punched him.
It also has the egg mcguffins these guys are always talking about right there in the movie! LOL
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.
Were you sober? if not, that was why you could make it through the movie.
You need beers, pizza and a couple friends (or gf) and time will fly with these kinds of films.
Your hard
@@ruicosta1037 Lobotomy also works.
I haven't watched this movie because I expected it to be exactly what you described. Thanks for confirming that my intuition was spot on.
It's really amazing that they filmed the Rome location actually in Georgia
Ryan Reynolds seemed like the only one who actually tried in this movie…
Considering his co-stars coasted on Vince McMahon and being the star of the best DCEU movie by default, that's unsurprising.
Even then he didn't seem particularly thrilled to be there
@@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.
@@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?
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.
I’ll be honest I read the first sentence of your comment and thought this was leading into a gay porn scene 😂
@@Pillmonger lol, at least i made you laugh i guess😂
You need to patent the PS4 heater idea
@@Gameprojordan im telling you, his ps4 is something else
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.
Wow, this movie made such an impact on me that as I watched this video, I realized I'd seen it and had totally forgotten.
Love this! Thank you
"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.
"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.
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
Well in that case watching it again but this time with your brain on might change your mind.
I require my 80s action flicks to include the sacrifice of a goat!
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.
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.
It is so weird that The Rock is thought of as someone with enough star power to boost movies into instant box office hits. Name a box office hit that he starred in that wasn't already a part of a successful franchise. I would even argue 1995's Jumanji means the sequels are tied to a successful film. His stand alone movies do not do well. Smart move by him to chase franchise success instead of create it. It has worked well enough for him thus far.
I've been saying this since he ever first appeared peddling his schtick, a poor man's Arnie,yet he is now one of the wealthies stars on the planet.Baffling
Moana.
@@wilburgraham6260 Not the biggest fan of the rock, but, it's difficult to dislike him. Props to him, he did make a successful career and had to bite the bullet and do shitty movies in the early 2000s. Now his movies are...somewhat viewable.
Please keep dropping bro I don’t care what movies you cover. Your commentary is hilarious 😂
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.
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.
I know what you mean by 'feeling dirty'. You almost feel ashamed and think, 'Surely there are better things to do than watch this.'
@@caro1ns "What am I doing with my life?"
Same. Couldn’t make it past the prison scene
did you mean to say "guilty by association"?
Ryan Reynolds is the best part of this movie, he carried it on his shoulders.
I'm pretty sure at one point the rock carried ryan on his shoulders
You mean, Deadpool playing Ryan Reynolds carried the movie on his shoulders.
@@ReesesPieces81 yes.
I wouldn't even have considered watching it without him
All those steroids and The Rock can't even carry the movie
Nice "Enemy Mine" insert! Brilliant movie
1:51 - 1:57. You damn near made me spit out my drink. Well played, Drinker. Well played.
Much as I like the Rock, if he's starring in the movie, it's safe to say that it's gonna be a piece of 'safe, disposable entertainment.'
I like his early stuff a lot more than what he does today.
Or some instantly forgettable shite featuring custom cars.
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.
It wouldn't be a modern movie without some non-sensical, plot-shattering subversion.
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.
The entire purpose of a movie like this is to just relax, turn off your brain and watch the fun. BUTTTTTT this really makes you work that suspended logic bit.
I had several questions and moments throughout this flick. And then I told myself: "eh what was I expecting"
"Consume product, get excited for next product".
Jay, so hit the nail on the head with that one.
Probably one of the most uninspired movies I've ever seen. It was like every one involved just phoned it in.
Uninspired is the last jedi
@@NICKRITZER I can't argue that, but what does that have to do with Red Notice?
@@RangerDave1959 typo, meant *as* uninspired
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'
Excellent review as always. I would love you see your take on the Yellowstone series
Hey Drinker you should do "the drinker fixes" of this wonderful treasure of this film!
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.
you just can't see it anymore when it's not completely obnoxious
Like 90% of movies don't have "SJW" stuff in them. Stop being so triggered.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
I watch this movie a couple of weeks ago and I generally like Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds and The Rock being The Rock, and watching the movie I was able to enjoy it well enough. It had all the things that needed to have for me to not get too bored or question too much about why the things that were happening were happening.
A week later, my lady brings it up, and I remember I watched it, I remembered who was in it, and I remembered that I didn't hate it. But for the life of me, I couldn't remember a single thing about the plot. It was as though I had never watched it. Even as she brought up details, only glimmers of content bubbled up. Oh yeah prison, helicopter, shock The Rock balls joke, Nazi treasure. Huh. I guess it was good? I've never watched a movie and forgot about it so quickly. I'm sure someone famous once said the worst thing a movie can be is boring, that is probably true, but I wonder where inconsequential and forgettable falls on that spectrum.
Great review and summary. It saved me watching it a second time since gin and tonic prevented me from finishing it the first time.
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.
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.
Too right, it's a shame he's been typecast now.
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.
He plays against type in a couple movies off the top of my head. Self/Less and The Voices.
The Amityville Horror remake. He certainly wasn't his usual smarta$$ joking self in that one.
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.
your version of the Red Notice is 10x better then the actual movie. Thanks!
I actually watched this and forgot about it until you made this video
It was a generic but surprisingly watchable film. The three stars all played themselves very well.
Quite damning that "watchable" is a challenging standard.
The roles* they were born to play
“Playing themselves”
@@sammerry7706 none of these actors have rolls, they are incredibly fit.
@@rogerhalt3991 heh the rice crackers the were born to play
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!
Not this time, mate
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.
@@MrJustinOtis totally agree with you... But last few years (not 10 years) Hollywood big budget blockbuster movies sucks even more.
@Pɾσƚҽɠҽ mashallah... Really liked the video and the voice on the recitation... Subhanallah! Thnx for the link brother ❤️❤️
I think I saw this in the theatre, but even after hearing the entire plot explained again, I can’t for the life of me remember if I saw it already.
Love the content Drinker. Spot on and hilarious. I'd love to hear your thoughts on The Last Duel. Cheers
"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.
Yes it borrowed heavily from other genres but I enjoyed it for what it was and the lack of political posturing was refreshing.
@@hanskneesun123 Exactly!
NWH?
lotr was the last good thing hollywood made and its being perverted already by amazon
Fuck Hollywood. Go for some foreign stuff and watch Irreversible on LSD! ;)
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
@@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
That description of Aberdeen is the most flattering one I've heard so far LOL
You should really mention the Aberdonian seagulls at some point- ha-ha-ha
That “the Rock vs the Rock” joke and edit was fantastic.
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.
It's a background noise kinda movie. Good to leave running while you do something else.
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.
Couple of (for me after several G&T’s) laugh out loud moments…Reynolds passes his food tray to the Rock in prison, the Putin Instagram and a couple of others…but Reynolds just becomes too much in the second half, playing a goofy Indy Jones…(still better than the Crystal Skull though!)🍹🤪
Hahaha I don’t appreciate all your jabs at my namesake 😂 love your videos though!