History YMMV / Red2010

* CrazyAwesome: Boggs, he keeps a ''grenade launcher'' in a ''stuffed pig'' he carries everywhere; and even uses the grenade launcher as a baseball bat to hit a grenade back at an attacker - and that's before he [[spoiler:shoots an RPG round ''dead-on''. Also, his ProperlyParanoid streak helps the group anticipate and deal with or escape several encounters.]]

-->'''Frank:''' Six one, cute hair?
-->'''Archivist:''' Hair was cute!

-->'''Ellis:''' I mean, if you don’t want to see a film with Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle, I’m not sure I want to know you.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Loosely based on the the comic miniseries of the same name. The movie is less serious and gory.

* FridgeBrilliance: If you know your cars or watch ''Series/TopGearUK'', the fact that the team visits Dunning's mansion in a Mercedes-Benz 600 is ''incredibly'' appropriate for the dictator disguise, as the list of former owners is overwhelmingly populated by dictators and other unsavory rulers, including Park Chung-hee, UsefulNotes/JosipBrozTito, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, UsefulNotes/IdiAmin, Robert Mugabe, Ferdinand Marcos, Kim Il-sung, UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein and perhaps in particular, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

** "Buried Beneath":

* RuleOfSeanConnery: Warren Ellis said any changes from the comic were justified by the presence of Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle.

* FridgeBrilliance: If you know your cars or watch ''Series/TopGear'', the fact that the team visits Dunning's mansion in a Mercedes-Benz 600 is ''incredibly'' appropriate for the dictator disguise, as the list of former owners is overwhelmingly populated by dictators and other unsavory rulers, including Park Chung-hee, UsefulNotes/JosipBrozTito, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, UsefulNotes/IdiAmin, Robert Mugabe, Ferdinand Marcos, Kim Il-sung, UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein and perhaps in particular, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

** Just when you think it's safe, just when you think the story will head in a different path from ''TheBookThief'', just when things are starting to look up again, [[spoiler:the bombs drop]].

* SophomoreSlump: Inverted. ''Innocence & Instinct'', their second album, is widely considered by the fandom to be one of RED's best albums.

* GrowingtheBeard: ''Innocence & Instinct'', which was highly praised and rated for improving upon their already good debut ''End of Silence''. Arguably done a second time from ''Release the Panic'' to ''Of Beauty & Rage''.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Expected of WarrenEllis' work. This one has one for each major character:

* FridgeBrilliance: If you know your cars or watch ''Series/TopGear'', the fact that the team visits Dunning's mansion in a Mercedes-Benz 600 is ''incredibly'' appropriate for the dictator disguise, as the list of former owners is overwhelmingly populated by dictators and other unsavory rulers, including Park Chung-hee, Josip Broz Tito, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Ferdinand Marcos, Kim Il-sung, Saddam Hussein and perhaps in particular, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

** Just when you think it's safe, just when you think the story will head in a different path from ''TheBookThief'', just when things are starting to look up again, [[spoiler:the bombs drop]].

* RealityIsUnrealistic: While the specific example of an unbreakable door with an unbreakable lock being set in a [[MyopicArchitecture very breakable wall]] may not be a literal example, it's representative of a larger problem government organizations have of doing something extremely competently up to a certain point and then screwing it up with a glaring lack of foresight. One real-life example is a computer that the armed forces designed that was able to withstand absolutely any possible damage, up to and including the location it was in surviving a direct thermonuclear strike... but you couldn't take a drink into the room with it or you might ruin the keyboard.
* RuleOfDrama: [[spoiler: Obviously, Frank could have disarmed Bailey at any point in the hallway, but the plot needed him to be held at gunpoint.]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Back in the Saddle]]" during Moses and Cooper's fight scene.

* AuthorAppeal: While there isn't an excess of it, theres a fair bit of bondage in the movie, with emphisis on wide, tape gags. It can't be a coincidence that two scenes of two different people with them on are so close together, that there is an onscreen gagging of the main heroine, numerous cuts to her struggling while BoundAndGagged, and when she breaks free, unlike in almost ''every other'' potrayal of a gagged captive escaping their bonds, she does not immediantly remove her gag, despite having both hands free.
** Marvin Boggs is a retired survivalist CIA operative in hiding whose decades of agency-enforced drug abuse have given him [[SuperOCD an almost clairvoyant]] level of [[ProperlyParanoid paranoia]] that he expresses in [[CloudCuckooLander the most absurd terms possible.]] Despite being an AdaptationCharacter not from the comic, he might be the most WarrenEllis'y thing about the film.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Loosely based on the the comic miniseries of the [[{{Red}} same name]]. The movie is less serious and gory.

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* RealityIsUnrealistic: While the specific example of an unbreakable lock being set next to a very breakable wall may not be a literal example, it's representative of a larger problem government organizations have of doing something extremely competently up to a certain point and then screwing it up with a glaring lack of foresight. One real-life example is a computer that the armed forces designed that was able to withstand absolutely any possible damage, up to and including the location it was in surviving a direct thermonuclear strike... but you couldn't take a drink into the room with it or you might ruin the keyboard.

* RoleAssociation: As [[http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=2194 a reviewer]] said, besides BruceWillis there is "Nancy Botwin from ''{{Weeds}}'', [[{{Invictus}} Nelson Mandela]], [[BeingJohnMalkovich the guy in whose mind John Cusack mucked around]], [[Film/TheQueen the Queen of England]], [[Film/{{Manhunter}} the original Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter]], [[Film/{{Jaws}} Matt Hooper]], [[Film/StarTrek Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy]], one of [[TheDirtyDozen the original Dirty Dozen]], and Mrs. Creator/DavidMamet. Wow." And he left [[Film/FantasticFour Dr. Doom]] out!

* AuthorAppeal: While there isn't an excess of it, theres a fair bit of bondage in the movie, with emphisis on wide, tape gags. It can't be a coincidence that two scenes of two different people with them on are so close together, that there is an onscreen gagging of the main heroine, numerous cuts to her struggling while {{BoundandGagged}}, and when she breaks free, unlike in almost ''every other'' potrayal of a gagged captive escaping their bonds, she does not immediantly remove her gag, despite having both hands free.

** Marvin Boggs is a retired survivalist CIA operative in hiding whose decades of agency-enforced drug abuse have given him [[SuperOCD an almost clairvoyand]] level of [[ProperlyParanoid paranoia]] that he expresses in [[CloudCuckooLander the most absurd terms possible.]] Despite being an AdaptationCharacter not from the comic, he might be the most WarrenEllis'y thing about the film.