Martyrs in their twilight years are full of courage

Skylar 2022-04-21 09:01:24

With Stallone's death squad, the actions of Bruce Willis' team of retired and extremely dangerous senior agents are easy to understand.
It is foreseeable that after the governor retires, he will continue to concoct this way.
Is this a throwback to the golden generation of action stars of the year or a satire on the lack of famous modern action stars?
The old men have still strong skills, rich experience and conversation, a group of buddies who share life and death, and always love young and beautiful girls, the eternal Hollywood theme.
However, this film still has the traces of a typical Bruce Willis movie:
1. He is always covered in injuries
2. He never knows how to back down, and he takes the initiative to find a younger agent to compete, how can he fail? Because "I am your master's master".
3. The most outstanding part of the happy ending
is a few supporting characters, especially the old man of the Russian intelligence agency, and there is a romantic past.
After watching it, I was thinking, if a group of veteran actors who shot the Condor in 1984 made a martial arts film to interpret the martyrs in their old age, what would they be like?


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RED quotes

  • Joe Matheson: We're gettin' the band back together.

  • [Frank calls Cooper on the phone; Cooper is told to stall him while the call is traced]

    Frank Moses: Here's the thing, Cooper. With age... comes a certain perspective. I'd be a liar if I said there wasn't a time when I was exactly like you. Blind ambition. Misplaced trust.

    William Cooper: Why are you telling me this?

    Frank Moses: It may help me to decide what to do next.

    Interrogation Surveillance Tech: [technician tracing the call whispering to Cooper] Just keep it going.

    William Cooper: Why? What are you thinking about?

    Frank Moses: Our business is a very hard one. But it was never the, uh... the killing or the stress, the bad pay that bothered me.

    William Cooper: Well, what was it, Frank?

    Frank Moses: It's how anything that you love... can be taken away from you. It taught me never to care. Never to invest. Then I met this woman. Sarah. And now you have her. Now I can't think of anything more horrible than to know that your enemies can hurt someone you love. The feeling is almost indescribable.

    [the trace completes, and the technician hands Cooper a printout]

    Frank Moses: You still there, Cooper?

    William Cooper: [horrified] You're at my house

    [Frank looks out the window into the yard where Cooper's wife and two children, unaware, are playing]

    Frank Moses: Almost indescribable, isn't it?

    William Cooper: [whispering] Please... Please don't hurt my family.

    Frank Moses: If anything happens to Sarah, I will rip everything you love out of your life. And then I'll kill you.