It stands for “Retired and Extremely Dangerous.” Finally, a film for the Social Security collecting/AARP crowd. Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is retired from the CIA and he spends his days phoning and harassing Sarah (Mary Louise-Parker) the woman who runs the department that cuts his pension check. Somehow his check is always mysteriously missing. But something is missing for her, too. She lives a lonely life of reading trashy spy-thriller paperbacks. So when a series of events forces Willis to go to Kansas City and kidnap Sarah, suddenly she’s about to get all the action and even MORE then she’s ever dreamed of. First stop is the nursing home for Joe (Morgan Freeman) and then it’s on to find another one of the old gang-gone-senile (John Malkovich). The casting is perfect, right down to the surprise appearance of NINETY THREE year old Ernest Borgnine who works in the dead files at the CIA. And finally rounding them out is the very elegant Helen Mirren as retired hit-woman, Victoria. While the love life of Willis and Parker never quite develops with the movie’s mad-caper-nonsense, the theme feels very TV show “Weeds” wackiness meets Die Hard on a pension. The film is just loaded fun but nothing short of a good winter night rental. Two tiaras for the casting director capable of bringing all this star power together.
