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YMMV for the film Red

  • Accidental Innuendo: The first film has the tagline, "There's no substitute for experience." They were referring to fighting, but it did costar Helen Mirren...
  • Adaptation Displacement: Loosely based on the comic miniseries of the same name. The movie is less serious and gory.
  • Cargo Ship: Han really likes his plane.
  • Fridge Brilliance: If you know your cars or watch Top Gear (UK), 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.
  • Fridge Horror: Cooper asked his supervisor why Frank and the others were marked for death. His supervisor stated angrily that she was not read into it. Which means that they could have been killing all these people because someone high up didn't like them for all they knew, and they didn't have a problem with that.
  • Genius Bonus: The reason feet are such a common fetish is because the feet and the erogenous zones connect to sections of the brain which are very close together, and it's not uncommon for wires to get crossed occasionally. This puts Victoria's toe curling in an entirely different light.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In the second film, Byung-hun Lee being on the other side of the Gatling Good, as compared with his character in The Magnificent Seven (2016).
  • Questionable Casting: Both movies run heavily on this trope, with aging, serious, Academy Award nominated/winning actors like John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins kicking ass in an action-comedy.
  • Rule of Sean Connery: Warren Ellis said any changes from the comic were justified by the presence of Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle.
    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.
  • Too Cool to Live: Joe. Twice.
  • Woolseyism: The European Spanish dub changes "Retired, Extremely Dangerous" to the Spanish translation of "Retired Spy Network" so the RED acronym can be kept.

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