Rating: 10 out of 10, just look at that cast, a truly great movie that most critics would dismiss as pure popcorn. What's wrong with that - on a certain level that's what all movies should hope to be. This movie is pure entertainment with Willis in the lead along with Parker and the rest of the cast of distinguished actors doing good work when it would have been easy to just sleep walk through it. Willis is a very underrated actor and his romance of Parker which starts off with his kidnapping of her to save her from assassins is extremely sweet. He is more than capable of the physical parts his roles called for but can also insert nuance as well in all of his scenes with Parker. He's a guy you root for almost instinctively - one of those actors that almost forces you to like him. The pace is great as new characters are added and subtracted to keep the plot bouncing along. You sense the real bond between the characters as well as the futility of their post operative lives. Mirren and Malkovich are especially fun - I'd watch anything they're in. It looks like they had a lot of fun making this movie and it translate to a great movie that most serious critics will hate - screw em - this one was fun.
MVP: Willis as the love struck ex-super agent Frank Moses
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