Red Notice Review: Sloppy Genre Trip

Updated On: 21 November, 2021 07:08 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

The action is unimaginative and the comedy fails to mine the laughs. The writing fails in the due diligence test, the CGI looks third rate, continuity is terrible, and the director probably never had an original idea to lend to the making of it

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Red Notice
Dir: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Ritu Arya
Rating 2/5

Red Notice is a product of the disposable era. It is imminently forgettable. It garners notice only because of its high profile highly paid star cast, the rest of it is just lackluster humdrum genre mechanics involving heists, chases, sloppy buddy comedy shtick, passable entertaining banter, turning the tables, etc.

Thurber, the director of “Skyscraper” hopes his frayed narrative could give the audience something to cheer about merely by putting together a heavyweight star cast that includes Ryan Reynolds as ace criminal and adept escape artist Nolan Booth and Gal Gadot playing mysterious jewel thief, The Bishop in a catch me if you can set up with Dwayne Johnson as the primary pursuer, FBI’s top profiler John Hartley and Ritu Arya as Interpol Inspector Das, giving hot chase.

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