Review: ‘Red Notice’ Unlikely to Put its Trio of Stars on Any “Most Wanted” List

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In the pitch, there’s plenty about Red Notice to generate excitement. It gives Gal Gadot a live-action non-Wonder Woman role that we actually get to see—sorry, Death on the Nile for whatever purgatory has ensnared you.

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It’s her first of those, save a cameo as herself, in five years.

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The movie puts Dwayne Johnson in both romantic entanglements and in fights he loses.

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Both are very rare for him. Finally, it gives Ryan Reynolds the space to be a vaguely immoral smooth comedic chatterbox in a way that the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard absolutely did not.

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In the execution, however? Unfortunately, things don’t quite pay off as you’d hope.

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Red Notice’s premise is an interesting enough idea to build a film around. It’s an art theft take on the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” premise.

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