Red Notice Isn’t Worth Noticing
By Xander Townsend | Misfit Media Editor
(Spoiler Free)
The Netflix original, Red Notice, recently surpassed Endgame's cinema viewership in numbers associated with hours watched. The heist comedy movie starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, follows a con-man/art thief and an Interpol agent, competing with the 'greatest art theft in the world' to steal three bejewelled eggs owned by Cleopatra. With a $200 million budget, the film has been extremely well received competing with Netflix's most watched content.
Now I don’t know about you, but a thief teaming up with a rouge Interpol agent, competing with the greatest art thief known with a funky nick name to steal a golden egg, seems a little familiar? Oh that’s right, that’s because it is.
In 2004, Oceans 12, directed by Steven Soderberg, released in cinemas with an all-star cast including George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and many more. This heist comedy film, the second instalment in the Ocean's franchise, also involves thieves using Interpol and teaming up with the rouge FBI, competing with the notorious 'Night Fox' (an art thief), to steal the Faberge Imperial Coronation Egg (which happens to be gold). Now please forgive me if I'm a little uninterested in watching a film with twice the budget and less than half the engagement of a film that released 17 years ago which established the heist genre.
Are there any redeeming factors? The ending of this film is interesting enough and I appreciate they are clearly doing something different. But it isn't something I couldn't see on a 20 second TikTok skit and probably get the same level of enjoyment. I'm not too interested in sitting there for the 2 hours watching 'The Rock' be 'The Rock', and 'Ryan Reynolds' be Ryan Reynolds', it's all acting I have seen time and time again with films like Jungle Cruise, Fast and Furious, Hitman's Bodyguard, and Deadpool. The complete repetitive plot, acting, and storyline are just exhausting, but if you want to sit down and enjoy a funny enough 'nothing film', then please be my guest.