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Red (2008)
7/10
Touching, emotional and an unexpectedly good film
18 October 2008
I initially thought this film might be OK, but would probably turn out a let-down, as so many do. I was totally wrong. The film was unexpectedly very good. If you are an animal lover and a family man, you should be able to relate to this film and thus should definitely enjoy it.

I found the story very interesting and the acting was excellent. I watched the film whilst having a bottle of wine and this may have made it even better, but I actually found it very touching and even a little emotional. I am not normally the kind of person, who gets emotional watching a film, but this one struck a cord with me and in a way it saddened me, but at the same time, as I could relate to the main actor, he gave me great strength.

Brian Cox played the part tremendously and managed to portray the past tragedies in his life extremely well and with utter conviction. I scored the film 7, but it would be a high 7 and close to an 8. I prefer action type films and slower paced ones like this normally bore me. This one however was far from boring and in actual fact was thoroughly entertaining.
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3/10
Slow paced and not great.
17 October 2008
I found this movie quite slow paced. Considering who the main actor is (who played an excellent role in The fast & Furious), I expected a lot more from this film.

It starts out poor and in the end leaves you thinking, why did I bother watching it. It is a little pointless making a film pretty much just for the sake of it. If you like slow films with a poor storyline, I guess you might enjoy it.

In fairness, in some parts I found it interesting and maybe slightly intriguing but on the whole, I could not possibly recommend this film to anyone. It's OK at best, but in reality, it unfortunately really isn't worth watching.
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