According to this movie’s lore, more than 2,000 years ago, Roman general Mark Antony gifted his love, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, with three golden eggs. Like the National Treasure or Indiana Jones movies, Red Notice is propelled by the mythology of ancient artifacts and the greed they attract. The sequences here that are supposed to carry the excitement aren’t just oddly cheap and ugly, they’re breathtakingly boring. Featuring a trio of supposed movie stars who lack the panache or charisma of true marquee headliners, Red Notice is another visually ghastly bid at building a franchise on the back of action sequences that commit a cardinal sin for blockbuster thrillers. No scene in this lumbering action movie better exemplifies how hollow writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s Netflix film is. The lacquer of fake gold dissolves under the corrosive liquid, and the egg melts into rusted trash. Hartley proves it by pouring a can of Coke over the counterfeit egg on display. Booth plans to swipe an 18-karat Egyptian egg, but the priceless artifact has already been stolen. 12 Netflix streaming debut.Įarly in Netflix’s attempted heist blockbuster Red Notice, FBI agent Johnson Hartley ( Dwayne Johnson) tracks wisecracking thief Nolan Booth ( Ryan Reynolds) to the Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome. It has been updated and republished for the movie’s Nov. This review of Red Notice originally ran in conjunction with the film’s theatrical release date.
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