Red Notice Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

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5. Rawson Marshall Thurber's Slick Direction

Though there are definitely issues with the film's presentation - namely that choppy aforementioned editing - director Rawson Marshall Thurber is nevertheless a reliable pair of hands who knows how to get the job done.

And Red Notice is by far his most slick and stylish work to date, no matter the lacking ambition of the action sequences themselves.

Thurber's decision to shoot much of the action with gorgeous gliding, sweeping crane shots lends the film a visual wow factor in even a setup as simple as Booth being chased along a scaffold.

As Thurber has made clear ever since his debut Dodgeball, he's also highly skilled at bringing the comedic best out of his cast, and while the script isn't up to much, he does his absolute best to milk the central dynamic for every drop it's worth.

Thurber is hardly an auteur nor does he have much of a pronounced style to call his own, but as hired gun filmmakers go, he was a smart choice to helm the project.