Red Notice Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

2. The Weak, Forgettable Villain

Though The Bishop may be the foil to Hartley and Booth's missions, she's hardly the card-carrying villain of the movie - that dubious honour goes to arms dealer Sotto Voce (Chris Diamantopoulos).

Chris Diamantopoulos is given virtually nothing to do here as The Bishop and Booth's major mark, the man who possesses one of Cleopatra's three coveted eggs they're each desperately trying to steal.

Basically a thoroughly naff parody of a Bond villain with a weird voice, Sotto Voce makes no impact whatsoever despite his fair screen time throughout, because he's written to be as blandly anodyne as possible.

Thankfully the film has enough going on around him to mostly compensate, but Voce's gaudy appearance and hammy mannerisms immediately conjure traumatic memories of Antonio Banderas' performance as the flamboyant Big Bad in another recent Reynolds joint - The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard.