For all his charm, Johnson just can’t pull it off, though it’s not like Thurber bothered to craft him any helpful character-building breathers it’s just a kick-bollock scramble from action sequence to action sequence. We’re supposed to buy Johnson as a damaged everyman – a past mishap cost Sawyer a leg as well as his in-the-field self-confidence – yet we also have to swallow CG-reliant set-pieces that imbue him with superhuman capabilities, as well as a nonsensical, overegged plot which boils down to a tiff over a memory stick. It marks the third collaboration between Thurber and Johnson, following Central Intelligence (2016) and Skyscraper (2018). The closest the script comes to self-awareness is a moment when Johnson prepares to climb the tower’s smooth glass exterior with duct tape wrapped around his mitts and shoe tips, and says to himself, “This is stupid”. In the film, an FBI agent reluctantly teams up. Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building. It marks the third collaboration between Thurber and Johnson, following Central Intelligence (2016) and Skyscraper (2018). PG-13 1 hr 42 min Jul 13th, 2018 Thriller, Action. The film is light on zingers and heavy on ersatz emotionality, primarily expressed through a Taken-ish ‘Daddy’s gotta save his little girl’ intensity once Johnson’s small-time security whizz is back in the terrorist-flamed super-building of the title, via that ludicrous, trailer-heralded crane jump. Red Notice is a 2021 American action comedy film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber starring Dwayne Johnson alongside Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot and Ritu Arya. We really are back on stodgy San Andreas territory with this one
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