NOKW - Red

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Red

Basic Plot:  Bruce Willis is a retired special forces member/spy and he and his retired buddies are being hunted down by Richard Dreyfuss for some stupid reason, but this still ended up being a super entertaining movie.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that in one of the opening scenes in the movie, the bad guys fire over a thousand rounds of ammunition into Bruce Willis's house then Bruce has the time to pack and cut off all of the dead bad guys' fingers and the cops still have not shown up.  The fact that they depict Helen Mirren (who is really old and brittle) firing an uzi one-handed, which should easily break her wrist.  The fact that they kill only one member of the good guys and he just so happens to be the only black guy and that was Morgan Fucking Freeman.  The fact that John Malkovich shoots a rocket in the exact spot for it to explode and that explosion somehow goes backwards despite its momentum moving forward.  The fact that Richard Dreyfuss played a fairly convincing bad guy.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that the vice president's service detail might be the worst bodyguards ever.  In the scene where Bruce Willis and pals kidnap the VP, their plan entails that they chain the one and only conventional door out of the VP's charity function and then fake a gas leak.  So, what happens when the Secret Service hears the screams?  They immediately grab the VP and head to the same door that everyone else is trying to escape from which is locked.  First off, why would they do that when they probably arrived through the back exit, you know, the same exit that they then go out of when they find the front door locked.  Wouldn't it make more sense to start at the back exit?  Absolutely.  Plus, when they do go out the back exit, their caravan is waiting for them, which is where they seemed to be waiting all along.  Then when they get attacked by a very large machine gun, the first thing they do is have everyone get out of the bulletproof cars.  That's smart.  In the end, the VP gets kidnapped and his security was probably fired the next day.  I am not okay with that (except for his security getting fired part).

"An old lady shooting a massive gun....sure, why not."