Red Notice - Safe, Disposable, Forgettable Entertainment 

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Definitely one of the movies ever.

I'm not convinced this movie wasn't just an algorithm implanted in my brain.

I love it that Ryan Reynolds hair is still gelled up and neatly in place while in a Siberian prison. LEGEND!

"in an era in which unapologetic shittiness is now the accepted norm I guess bland mediocrity is now considered a high aspiration" that's a perfect way to sum it up. I guess that's what happens when something like the Marvel movies are considered the pinnacle of modern entertainment.

Watched it with my wife. She has a soft spot for mindless drivel. We watched. She said it was OK. About a week later she saw it on offer. "Um is that any good?" I reiterated the movie to her. "No, I don't remember that."

I can already imagine the studio meeting of this movie Pitch Meeting style, it probably went something like "Get me two of the most likable male actors, a beautiful female actress, the most generic plot possible with lots of generic action and an unnecessarily high dose of contrived double-crossings, put them all in a big mixer, hold it down until it's all a colorless, odorless, insipid sludge ... DONE, now send it out"

You know what's really funny? I watched this movie on Christmas with my family because we couldn't think of anything better to watch, and I completely forgot it existed until this thumbnail popped up. That's really the only purpose that these kind of disposable movies serve: they're not unwatchable, but not good enough to make any money in theaters, so they're thrown out onto streaming services to keep people mildly entertained for 2 hours and then forget about it a month later

The Rock vs the Rock scene made me laugh more than the entire Red Notice movie. Thank you for the giggle

It felt like it was designed by an AI that tried to stick a bunch of movies in a blender

"Entertainment by Committee" is the name of the game today. Whether its film, TV or music its all written by a team of passionless gits.

The fact i couldnt even get through this brief review probably speaks for the movie itself. Kudos to you, sir.

I started watching this review expecting to find out whether or not this movie could be worth my time. I soon realized that I already had seen it and forgot all about it. Ahh well, no loss there.

A “prison break / heist” plot sounds like it could actually be a lot of fun if it was done concurrently. One group trying to break out of a place, the other trying to break in. Each of them complicating the other’s plans.

The moment when "the best thief" Ryan Renolds was caught drinking Aviation Gin (Company Owned by Ryan Renolds) on his private island, explains exactly what kind of movie you are about to watch. The stormtrooper aim combined with 0 chance of anyone ever getting hurt makes it actually boring to watch. You know that even if Ryan Renolds were to fall into a volcano they would just make a cut to him on a beach commenting something about being smoking hot while drinking his own branded gin. Heist flick with double crosses, sexy cast and sexy locations has no right to be this boring and forgettable.

I watched this with my wife then literally a week later I was talking to my dad and he was asking me if I have seen it. I said no and asked him who was in it and what it was about. My wife looked at me and said we watched that last week don't you remember? I didn't. It was so bad I blacked it out of my memory.

The general Netflix consumer was probably stunned and amazed by the reveal of Gadots role of as a agent switching the eggs!

That fact that it's not loaded with modern "current year" propaganda is shocking honestly. I guess things have gotten so bad that as long as a movie doesn't do that people think its great.

The Rock is contractually obligated to appear in at least 15 movies a year.

This movie reminded me the Lupin III movies. They have a similar tone, over the top action sequences, insane heists and heck even some similarities with the characters. Also in the bloopers reel Reynolds and The Rock admitted how dumb the script is. 😄

I've actually started watching it on netflix, and survived to when they arrested the guy and swapped the egg in the swat car ... at this point I simply though "hey I think I've got some laundry to do" and just walked away from it. Yes, it was that engaging.

"It's a movie." is undoubtedly the best description for this movie.

I have a theory: Red Notice was actually written by an AI and was the initial test run for future AI-written movies. There's literally a front end accessible through an internal URL that gives you a page with checkboxes, radio buttons, drop-downs and sliders, connected to an AWS-based database and machine learning setup. An exec sits down in front of it, selects things like Genre: Action Movie, Subgenre: Heist, Number of Characters: 3, amount of THE MESSAGE: 10% and other parameters, hits the Submit button, and minutes later this tripe is spat out complete with minute scene details and suggested actors for each role. It gets emailed to all the parties involved, and we're off to make a movie. The feedback is then gathered and fed back to the AI to improve the next script that it will spit out. You don't need much more to get consoomers to consoom. All that said, while Red Notice was a paper-thin forgettable BS, it was a perfect Friday takeout movie. Put it on, pour a beer, bite into a piece of pizza, shut off your brain for a bit and it works. At least it was better than the Army of the Dead.

There are times when i get home from work, physically and mentally frazzled, and all I want to watch while I unwind is something mindless, with likeable actors doing exciting things in colourful locations. Sounds like a perfect film for one of those occasions!

This film is that modern Hollywood thing all over... When they're not trying to force "the message" down everyone's throats they're making films ass-backwards. Instead of: I've written this great story, now we need to carefully choose the best team of people for it's transfer to the silver screen. We have: Here's this silver screen, so once we hire some 'stars' to put on it we'll come up with a bit of nonsense to justify their presence. I watched RLM's reView of the original Total Recall. That exists for basically the same reason, seemingly a bit of cheap entertainment. But where this film is at best harmless nonsense, Total Recall is actually a great film the makers put everything they could in to making as good as they could. This is at best what I'd have once called a 'Friday Night Film'. It's been a long week, you're tired, you still want to go out with your friends, but frankly putting any effort in to the task is too much. So you all end up eating at Pizza Slut because it's next to the cinema, followed by watching the lowest common denominator film you can all agree on with minimal effort. "Have once called..." because these days a 'Friday Night Film' is the best you're going to get!

I genuinely enjoyed not having "the message" crammed down my eyeballs. Was an entertaining movie.

So unbelievably forgettable. I watched it and I’m struggling to even remember half of the movie.

Honestly, I watched it to watch Gal Gadot move around and do things. I couldn't even remember what it was about until watching this video. I do remember hearing the director talk about how hated having rewrite the story and re-film inside a parking lot due to Covid. Apparently it was a different movie originally. But...I mean...not sure _how much different_ it could be when most everything is done with effects today anyway...

I laughed at how you gave 4 minutes of spoilers THEN say, "now this is when I get into spoiler territory..".😂 I absolutely love your reviews, but fool me once...😉

When The Rock has reached John Cena levels of safe & disposable entertainment, you know things are bad.

Disposable entertainment is a better call. The movie consists of typical action sequences and flawed plot twists but it provides plenty of entertainment yet it somewhat manages to be a disposable movie that you'll have trouble remembering exists weeks later. And yeah Ryan's aptitude to deliver lines with a joking intonation without it being comedic is kinda ridiculous, Wonder Woman and the Rock were just being themselves in the movie. Even with these A list figures the movie still feels lousy to sit through, which makes for a bad writing. They could've worked a little more on screenwriting and have lesser known faces within this screenplay and it might've been something 'new'.

Not gonna lie, I watched it and was entertained overall. It is true that this movie doesn`t take risks, the actors with their charisma sell the movie for the most part. The biggest irony might be the fact that while it doesn`t offer anything new, anything risky, just plays it safe it still is better than alot of other movies produced these days that only exist for some message or agenda. This at least just wanted to have fun, which is the basic thing a piece of entertainment should strife for. Simply by doing the bare minimum it is still better compared to so much trash that doesn`t even do that.

It reminds me of how awesome The Rock was in his early stuff like the rundown a truly great action movie with plenty of comedy too. He has never again been in another movie that hit those same perfect notes. Even though it's clear with something like this he keeps trying.

When I watched this, I found that rather than being entertained I was relieved that no agenda was being pushed. This is what modern movies has done to me.

I remember when Red Notice became the most popular movie on Netflix of all time. I autommatically responded "So?".

I work in a power plant using scaffolding all the time. That scaffolding scene made me want to scream it was so ridiculous. I thought the movie was harmless and mildly entertaining. But I'd probably completely hate it if I tried to watch it a second time. So I won't.

Isn’t it hilarious how they showed how hard it is to get past the security in that rich guy’s house, like all the steps they had to take with the insider information that they had, only for a cop who has np idea what’s going on to manage to follow them through all the security previously mentioned?

I was constantly shouting "no" and "as if" whilst laughing my ass off at each new plot point in this film. My god was it long and forgettable

"In an era where unapologetic sh!ttiness is now the accepted norm, I guess bland mediocrity is now considered a high aspiration." This is why I hate modern "cinema", with very few exceptions.

1:54 "Shiet!" 🤣🤣🤣, oh man, that blindsided me!

6:00 was outta nowhere I literally LOL'd. Clever there dear Drinker!

In all honesty, the fact that I can watch this movie and not immediately hate someone somewhere for some reason is a huge improvement over most of the movies coming out nowadays. It’s not a good film, but it at the very least isn’t a train wreck, and sometimes that’s good enough.

Nowadays I go by one golden rule: If it makes me feel absolutely nothing, its worthless. This movie and movies like it fall into that category, Filmento made a good point about Michael Bay films that at the very least having personality can make the audience overlook a lot of bad writing, I enjoy the first 3 Transformers movies even though part of me knows they're not good movies.

It had plot holes you could drive a convoy through but I actually enjoyed this a lot. The "start" of the car crash had me laughing even after the movie ended. The setup for that was great, expectations subverted but in a good way. Had some popcorn, watched RR be RR, The Rock be The Rock and that was enough for me.

The fact you just used their real names was one of the best ideas you've had in ages😂

Honestly I didn't mind Red Notice. It was pretty much what I expected it to be, a silly over the top action heist movie with each actor basically playing a caricature of themselves. It kept me entertained for the runtime and didn't really leave much of an impression afterwards. At least it didn't completely kill my enthusiasm for a previously beloved franchise like a certain movie by a certain director of Breaking Bad's "Fly" fame did.

After watching a few movies starring Gal Gadot and seeing her "talent" my favorite joke about her is that she's not an actress, she's a woman working in the profession of actress. Sadly, same thing can be said about many current stars of Hollywood.

I hope when I finally finish writing my story, it'll be a nice breath of fresh air from these lackluster pos's turned out nowadays! You've been a big influence and inspiration for me the last few years, drinker! Thank you for all the videos and your books! Cheers!

Amazed to hear there's sequels coming! To me it was unwatchable after first 10 minutes.

"Safe, disposable entertainment by committee." Damn is that accurate. I did appreciate that it wasn't trying to jam THE MESSAGE down my throat (aside from the typical Hollywood feminist message of a 120lb girl being able to kick any man's ass: because women!), but it was bland and just sort of average. For me it was fine if a bit too cookie-cutter and forgettable, sold entirely on the backs of the stars. As you said, it's essentially a direct-to-video caliber movie with big stars and a budget.

I tried watching this “movie”. I managed to get through 15 minutes of it before I completely lost interest in it. My hats off to you Drinker for getting through all of it. This is the kind of movie that could end the dreams of any young filmmaker.

1:51 - 1:57. You damn near made me spit out my drink. Well played, Drinker. Well played.

Wow, this movie made such an impact on me that as I watched this video, I realized I'd seen it and had totally forgotten.

For me, it was just eye candy where I was able to shut off my brain for 2 hours. Something in this day and age, I REALLY need. I found myself laughing so hard during the bull fight scene with Ryan mistaking a movie for a documentary in how to handle the bull.

Spot on breakdown of "Red Notice." The difference between your experience and mine was that I literally could not bear to watch the movie grind through gears beyond the 30-45 minute mark. I went in expecting nothing more than some enjoyable fluff and was somewhat discomfited to find myself feeling dirty so quickly, like I was guilty by algorithm.

I chuckled once, maybe twice. Ryan Reynolds’ line about getting a Shawshank jacket if he gets once more escape from prison… I can barely remember much else. Popcorn movie.

Watched this during a 12 hour drive cross country for thanksgiving last year. You just reminded me this existed. To be fair to it though, it was a good way to fill time i would’ve otherwise spent staring out a window.

"2 hours of attractive and charming people being attractive and charming." was the review I sent to my kid at college after watching it. Ideal fare for a Thursday night when you've got no other plans. It asks nothing of an audience that asks nothing of it.

I saw this movie half way trough last winter, knocking down beers with a buddy in an repurposed gardening shack, which was heated by his dying PS4 on its last leg, we used to access Netflix. In the middle two more of his friends stopped by, so we collectively forgot the movie and went in the garage to play beerpong (at least thats how its called in Germany). I wasn't really paying attention, but one thing I noticed in my intoxicated state, was that no matter what, there aren't going to be serious conseqences for the main characters. They will escape the prison without dying, no matter the explosion, they'll live and no matter the conflict between them, they are going to work together. Inherently that is not a bad thing, a friend of mine absolutely loved Red Notice. But he also liked the Star Wars Sequels because the special effects looked good.

I like that edit at the end. Good work!

The best part about this era of awful low quality movies is to be able to read all the hilarious comments that get posted on videos like this.

The movie was enjoyable in a turn-off-your-brain kind of way. It was cute, silly, predictable, and safe. I didn't hate it, this entertained me for [insert run time]. I wouldn't call it "acting," but rather characters we've seen before in several films thrown into a formulaic romp filled with tropes that piss off scrutinizing viewers such as The Drinker.

I personally thought it was just mindless fun, a popcorn movie nothing to put too much thought into just enjoyed the action. I was just happy they weren't trying to push "The Message!"

Thanks for the Alcatraz / The Rock sequence. Made my morning

I haven't watched this movie because I expected it to be exactly what you described. Thanks for confirming that my intuition was spot on.

Ryan Reynolds was the only one that tried in this movie

So you mentioned all these different plot contrivances and other issues with the story, and I dunno, maybe you're right about some of it. But the part that bothered me is that gasoline slowly evaporates, and loses its potency after somewhere between six months and two years, and yet they climb into a 75-year-old Nazi jeep and it starts immediately and a car chase ensues. I call this the Walking Dead Conundrum.

Hey Drinker you should do "the drinker fixes" of this wonderful treasure of this film!

It's really amazing that they filmed the Rome location actually in Georgia

"Red Notice" is just a paint by numbers, generic action flick where you turn off your brain during it's run time, and have some mindless fun. It washes over you, and when it's done, you'll have a hard time remembering what happened within fifteen minutes. It's a live action cartoon, where the laws of physics, logic or even basic story telling are sacrificed to see (The Rock, Gal, Ryan) do something stylishly in an interesting setting. Trying to analyze all its faults is an exercise in futility, because who cares? It was neat to watch, and no animals were hurt in the making of this film.

Ryan Reynolds seemed like the only one who actually tried in this movie…

Please keep dropping bro I don’t care what movies you cover. Your commentary is hilarious 😂

Nice "Enemy Mine" insert! Brilliant movie

Probably one of the most uninspired movies I've ever seen. It was like every one involved just phoned it in.

I was okay with the film up until the point that they revealed Gal and Dwayne were dating. The film woulda been a lot better if it was just three super thieves one upping each other.

The entire purpose of a movie like this is to just relax, turn off your brain and watch the fun. BUTTTTTT this really makes you work that suspended logic bit.

I actually watched this and forgot about it until you made this video

"Consume product, get excited for next product". Jay, so hit the nail on the head with that one.

This was the kind of movie you could fast forward through half of and still not lose any of the plot. I know because I did that. I do like Ryan Reynolds and he can actually play a different character. I saw a movie where his daughter was kidnapped and he was a very different character for that. I think he just gets typecast as this same generic character. Just like the Rock wears pretty much the same outfits in every movie. I'm starting to think he just shows up in his own clothes for most of the films he's in.

It is so weird that The Rock is thought of as someone with enough star power to boost movies into instant box office hits. Name a box office hit that he starred in that wasn't already a part of a successful franchise. I would even argue 1995's Jumanji means the sequels are tied to a successful film. His stand alone movies do not do well. Smart move by him to chase franchise success instead of create it. It has worked well enough for him thus far.

your version of the Red Notice is 10x better then the actual movie. Thanks!

That “the Rock vs the Rock” joke and edit was fantastic.

Ryan Reynolds is the best part of this movie, he carried it on his shoulders.

Love this! Thank you

I just liked watching a mindless film with some ridiculous jokes, traditional manly-men and sexy ladies, and impossible choreography that sucked me in... and I just laughed. It was silly and over the top, and I appreciated that.

Much as I like the Rock, if he's starring in the movie, it's safe to say that it's gonna be a piece of 'safe, disposable entertainment.'

The thing is, Ryan Reynolds can do so much more as an actor, but ever since Deadpool studios think "oh hes funny guy. he should play funny guy." Give this man an actual acting role again and he will most likely deliver.

Hahaha I don’t appreciate all your jabs at my namesake 😂 love your videos though!

Excellent review as always. I would love you see your take on the Yellowstone series

It was a generic but surprisingly watchable film. The three stars all played themselves very well.

Honestly, I'm just glad that a movie was made that didn't try to stuff some propaganda or idealogy down my throat and just gave me something fun to watch. In 2021(and now 2022), that's rare if not impossible to see without SJWs completely hijacking any given production, medium or any given media platform. I'll take it, it'll be a LONG time, if ever, we get to see a movie that's actually watchable again.

That description of Aberdeen is the most flattering one I've heard so far LOL You should really mention the Aberdonian seagulls at some point- ha-ha-ha

"It's the kind of movie you watch when there's nothing else on.." Yeah Drinker. Yes it is. Hollywood hasn't produced anything worth watching in years. As you said: "In an era where unapologetic sh*ttiness is now the accepted norm, I guess bland mediocrity is a high aspiration." And it's exactly for that reason that I enjoyed it so much. It wasn't serious, dark, or brooding, it wasn't a remake, reboot, spin off, sequel, or prequel, and it certainly wasn't lecturing me about *_THE MESSAGE._* It was what movies used to be about... it was fun.

Is the Rock's mission to be in every film ever made? He's literally everywhere

1:55 - Enemy Mine (1985). Wow I forgot all about that movie. That was one of Dennis Quaid's early movies.

I think I saw this in the theatre, but even after hearing the entire plot explained again, I can’t for the life of me remember if I saw it already.

Granted I can't name a single character in the film, I still had fun watching it. Like you said at least it isn't cramming "THE MESSAGE" Down your throat the whole time.

When a review of a film is more entertaining than the actual film... You know you're living in a f**ked up time mate!

5:43 I swear that looks like a clip from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.

Love the content Drinker. Spot on and hilarious. I'd love to hear your thoughts on The Last Duel. Cheers