Notice rouge

Un film à 200 millions de dollars bon pour la cuisine ou le repassage, mais qui reste néanmoins un succès pour Netflix. (29/07/2022)

Incroyablement formaté et sans originalité, une routine ennuyeusement inoffensive avec un scénario digne d'un long métrage de Tom et Jerry… s'essayant à des retournements à la Usual Suspects. Comme le dit Reynolds : « Qu'est-ce que c'est que ce bordel ?! » Ses répliques sont les seuls moments lumineux du film. Même Jungle Cruise était plus inventif et enchanteur. (13/11/2021)

Un petit film agréable de type action-comédie avec un trio central sympathique. Les trois me plaisent beaucoup, donc je ne pouvais pas trouver ça mauvais. Gal Gadot nous a encore servi son charme, The Rock un angle psychologique de sa personnalité :-) et Ryan Reynolds un petit escroc amusant. On y trouve quantité de destinations visuellement charmeuses, une bonne dose d’action et de l’humour cinglant. La suite est sur le point d’arriver et avec le tournage dans ma ville préférée, je ne peux pas la laisser passer ! (23/12/2022)

One of this year's most expensive Netflix movies is a decent genre one-off, but given the budget and the cast, I was expecting a bigger load of excitement. I was kind of hoping for something in the vein of 6 Underground, but the PG-13 rating alone kind of bugged me. It's a bit of a variation on Indiana Jones, James Bond and Ocean’s Eleven, but in neither can the film hold a candle to those franchises. As expected, Red Notice is an entertaining, expensive and nicely made film, with The Rock, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds doing their thing again, and a few of the jokes are good. Unfortunately, the action is a disappointment, there isn't a single memorable action scene and the finale is delivered in a more intimate than monumental way, which is a big downside. There is one unexpected twist that’s quite good, and the heist antics aren't bad, but that's not enough for me. The two hours are bearable, and Red Notice is certainly worth recommending, but it should and could have been more consistent and wilder. Story 3/5, Action 3/5, Humor 3/5, Violence 0/5, Fun 4/5 Music 4/5, Visuals 4/5, Atmosphere 2/5, Suspense 2/5, Emotion 3/5, Actors 4/5. 6/10. (13/11/2021)

Netflix calculated how to make a hit: take a lot of money, put in famous faces, come up with an uncomplicated story, and cram something in there for everyone, ideally in a way that the result won't turn anyone off, regardless of age or whether they want action, adventure, humor, exotic locations, or basically anything. The result is Red Notice. Dwayne Johnson scowls and occasionally punches someone, Ryan Reynolds talks and pisses Johnson off, and Gal Gadot looks good while sadly confirming that her acting talent is more suited for photos or silent films. And overall? Overall, it doesn't offend, it doesn't surprise, it passes pleasantly in the first half and drags in the second, and when there's a problem somewhere, Netflix throws a few million dollars at it and routinist Rawson Marshall Thurbert pulls it all together into something that's about two hours long, with a beginning, middle and end, and everyone will watch it anyway because we're just curious about the actors, right? And then we all forget about it in an hour. I get what Netflix was going for and I respect that they did it, but I'm certainly not going to settle for this uninteresting routine and I'm not going to praise it. It's like it was all made by a machine that figured out what people probably want to see and served it up to them. (18/11/2021)