When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored and lonely living off his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life are his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sarah is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces Frank back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into Franks past and the people he used to work with. Like Frank they are all RED ... Retired Extremely Dangerous.
Written by Malcolm is Crazy
John Malkovich read the first 40 pages of the script and liked it. But he asked his agent why he was up for the role of Frank. He said Malkovich had been reading the wrong lines. He was up for Marvin's role instead.
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Goofs
Revealing mistakes:
In the first two aerial shots of the hotel in "Chicago" where the Vice President is appearing, you can see the hotel sign reading "Fairmount "Chi Cago" with "Chicago" being split in half. That's because they had to cover up the real name of the hotel, the "Royal York" which is where they filmed in Toronto.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Frank Moses:
[on the phone]
943-66-2291. Pension Services, please.
Woman:
Thank you, Mr. Moses, please hold for your representative. See more »
Crazy Credits
Bullets, guns and explosions play out over the end credits.
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"Home in Your Heart"
Written by Otis Blackwell and Winfield Scott Performed by Solomon Burke Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
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