Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, and Dwayne Johnson are armed and smirking in the Red Notice trailer
Netflix's star-studded spy games heist comedy is “gonna steal Cleopatra’s eggs”
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Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot are ready to prove that movie stars are not extinct—they’re just on the hunt for Cleopatra’s eggs.
The new trailer for Netflix’s spy games action comedy Red Notice is here, and fortunately, it is more descriptive than the title. Deadpool Ryan Reynolds plays a world-class treasure hunter, who stumbles into a career as the world’s second most wanted art thief, despite being, by all accounts, inept. Obviously, this makes him the perfect foil for FBI agent Dwayne Johnson, who needs Reynolds’ help in apprehending competent cat burglar Gal Gadot before she steals Cleopatra’s eggs.
Red Notice comes to us (as the trailer loudly announces) from Rawson Marshall Thurber, one of The Rock’s go-to boys. Together, Thurber and Johnson have made Central Intelligence and Skyscraper. We assume Brad Peyton, director of previous Rock vehicles Journey 2 The Mysterious Island, San Andreas, and Rampage, was busy that weekend.
The dynamic among Red Notice’s three leads is the obvious sell.
The Rock is in a similar mode that he exhibits in his collaborations with Kevin Hart—exasperated by the necessary incompetence that surrounds him. Meanwhile, Reynolds does his Jim Carrey action hero thing, which is to say, he’s Deadpool, winking at the audience as he struggles to suavely grab a gun.
Gal Gadot is the real mystery here. As Reynolds points out, she “looks awful,” sure, but as the Carmen Sandiegoian thief, we don’t get a good sense of what she’s bringing to the table here—outside of being very elusive. Hopefully, the film fills out her character a little better than the trailer does.
Still, the movie looks like it delivers on the action, with a particularly Kill Bill-esque duel being among the more exciting and stylish set pieces teased. Ryan Reynolds’ incompetent James Bond, though? He might have some stiff competition from Tom Holland in the Uncharted trailer.
Red Notice hits select theaters on November 5 and Netflix on November 12.
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A perfect example of a movie chock full of charismatic, attractive “it” stars completely flopping. I guarantee it.
Little known fact, as a non-platypus mammal, Cleopatra did not lay eggs. Therefore, I assume that, for the purposes of this movie, she had eggs cryogenically frozen? I’m surprised that ancient Egyptians had this technology.
Duh. They didn’t invent this technology or anything. It was granted to them by their alien overlords for building the Pyramids.
This is how I know you weren’t alive in the 70’s and missed out on the pseudoscientific fad that was Pyramid Power.
Actually, I was alive in the 70s and was aware of Pyramid Power. In fact, once for some sort of science fair (or should I say “science” fair) I tested it out. I created a pyramid out of coat hangers and then wrapped up two hot dogs in gauze. One I had as a control and the other I placed on the base of the coat hanger pyramid. They both rotted. But being nitrate-filled hotdogs, they rotted very very slowly. The lesson: pyramids got nuthin on modern food preservatives. Don’t know about eggs though.
In Ptolemaic Egypt, eggs lay you!
I’m just not yet sold on two of the three main stars here. Of all of them, Johnson is the one I’ve watched the most, and he definitely and reliably brings an energy and charisma that makes his movies watchable. If he were a baseball player, he’d have a pretty strong WAR.Reynolds seems to be a charismatic person, but I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen his name on a poster and went, “oh, this will be entertaining!” Gadot is also very charming in interviews which came through in the two WW movies, but I’m not sure if that’s entirely or only partially canceled out by her not-that-great acting.
I feel like everything he did in his career led him to Deadpool, which was 100% a perfect role for him. He can be goofy and cool and cheesy, all the things people love about him, and it works incredibly well.The problem now is that every time I see him, I think “I’d rather watch him as Deadpool”. It doesn’t help that he never leaves his wheelhouse, which means Deadpool is always going to be the high-water mark.
There’s a lot of Ryan Reynolds’ filmography that I haven’t seen. I think that in Smokin’ Aces he did some pretty good acting. But on the other hand, maybe it’s not great that my first thought when I try to summon the image of Ryan Reynolds doing something well other than Being Ryan Reynolds is, uh, Smokin’ Aces.
I’m with you here. He’s great in Deadpool, and that’s one set of movies among a pretty unimpressive filmography. I love me some Amy Adams, and she’s had a bad run lately, but I feel like she’s always watchable. I don’t have that sense yet that Reynolds is in that category. I’d be curious about what movies of his are out there where you can say the movie’s pretty meh, but Reynolds was great.
I feel the exact opposite as you. I’ve enjoyed just about every Ryan Reynolds movie including Gree… okay, not that one, but the rest are fun. I don’t dislike The Rock, but I find myself thinking “another Rock movie?” whenever I see his name pop up.
I kind of want someone to assure Ryan Reynolds that he’s naturally charismatic and doesn’t need to “act cute” every moment he’s on screen, but a lot of people seem to enjoy that sort of thing. I find it off-putting and unnatural.
Starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as “John Hartley”Ryan Reynolds as “Hart Johnley”Gal Gadot as “Lea Johnhart”…now this I’d watch.
i did notice that the guards at the spooky snowy facility they broke out of had “OMOH” on the uniforms, so i bet that’ll be the basis of some very tasteful comedy when they look in the mirror. is it 2008?