Red Notice (2021)
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An FBI agent and a renowned art thief must team up to catch an even more notorious thief.
The story
In the present, John Hartley is an FBI profiler who investigates the theft of one of the bejeweled eggs on display at the Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, along with Interpol agent Urvashi Das. Having stolen the egg, globally wanted art thief Nolan Booth manages to escape but finds Hartley and the Interpol at his home in Bali. They arrest Booth, but not before Booth's main rival Sarah "The Bishop" Black steals the egg and frames Hartley. Hartley is incarcerated in a remote Russian prison with Booth, and the two must decide whether to work together to find the remaining eggs and clear Hartley's name.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The story begins with the history of three bejeweled eggs gifted by Mark Antony to Cleopatra in the 1st century BC. In the present, FBI profiler John Hartley and Interpol agent Urvashi Das investigate the theft of one egg in Rome. The thief, Nolan Booth, is caught but framed by his rival, Sarah "The Bishop" Black. Hartley is imprisoned with Booth in Russia; the two form an uneasy alliance to find the other two eggs. They travel to Valencia to find the second egg held by Sotto Voce, where they are confronted by Black. After a series of betrayals, they travel to Argentina to find the third egg in a secret bunker. During the escape, it is revealed that Hartley is not an FBI agent but a conman, and he and Black are actually a couple working together. They ultimately double-cross their allies. Six months later, they find Booth on a boat in Sardinia. He reveals their accounts are frozen, and the trio agrees to a new heist in Paris, leading to the issuance of 'red notices' for all three.
- First release year
- 2021
- Runtime (minutes)
- 118
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Rawson Marshall Thurber
- Writers
- Rawson Marshall Thurber · writer
- Cast and characters
- Dwayne Johnson · John Hartley; Ryan Reynolds · Nolan Booth; Gal Gadot · Sarah Black / The Bishop; Chris Diamantopoulos · Sotto Voce; Ritu Arya · Inspector Urvashi Das; Ivan Mbakop · Tambwe; Vincenzo Amato · Director Gallo; Rafael Petardi · Security Chief Ricci
- Genres
- action; comedy
- Themes
- deception; partnership
- Tone and mood
- action; comedy
- Setting
- Various international locations including Rome, Bali, Valencia, Argentina, Cairo, and Paris.
- Premise and plot tags
- heist; art theft
- Reception
- The film received mixed reviews, with critics praising the performances of Johnson and Reynolds and the action sequences, while criticizing the plot and screenwriting.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 37 · scale: 100 · review count: 38
- Awards and nominations
- Best Action · Golden Trailer Awards · 2022 · nomination; Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema · Georgia Film Critics Association Awards · 2021 · nomination
- Production trivia
- The film was one of the first to extensively use first-person view (FPV) drone flying for cinematography.; It was Netflix's most expensive original film until 2022's The Gray Man.; The film was originally planned for release by Universal Pictures before being acquired by Netflix.
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