Red (2010) and Red 2 (2013)

The story follows Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), a retired CIA black-ops agent, who finds himself the target of an assassination squad.

I recently watched Red (2010) for the second time and Red 2 (2013) on the same day. I remembered liking Red, and I enjoyed it again. I had never seen Red 2 (2013) and was pleasantly surprised that I liked it just as much as the first film. Both films are enjoyable, spy shoot-em-ups, with just the right amount of humor. Some reviewers state that Red 2 is a “Sloppy, cartoonishly violent sequel that fails to match the original”, but I would disagree.

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Outbreak (1995)

I watched this star-studded Warner Brothers Picture Company 1995 movie Outbreak on AMC. It is a Wolfgang Peterson film (The Neverending Story, Enemy Mine, Shattered, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, Poseidon) which he was also executive producer and director. The movie is based on Richard Preston’s 1994 nonfiction book “The Hot Zone”. In 1967 a virus infects a whole town in the African Jungle.

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