![]() ![]() Even though there are hints that Hartley was the real bad guy all along, it’s bold to ask the audience to suspend their disbelief to such an extent. “The Bishop,” it turns out, was the alias of the couple all along, and they had manipulated Booth into leading them to the egg. As Booth gloats and Hartley puts the handcuffs on The Bishop, she kisses him. As Interpol descends, the three escape in a vintage car and topple over a waterfall, only to emerge unscathed. The final plot twist, however, is so flagrantly far-fetched that even if you saw it coming, you might not have believed the script would go that far.īooth leads Hartley to an underground Nazi bunker in South America where the egg is hidden, promising that The Bishop will follow and the FBI agent will finally be able to put her in handcuffs and clear his name. ![]() These plot machinations leave the viewer with only one certainty: every set-up inevitably has a catch. She’s wiped all records of Hartley’s FBI credentials to frame him as a criminal, for example, and she’s secretly working with the arms dealer she pretends to be stealing from (or is she?). Each time, she drops a new plot-twisting revelation. She crashes an Interpol sting in Bali, poses as the commander of a secret prison in the middle of nowhere Russia, and steals the limelight at a masquerade ball in Valencia. Most of the twists involve The Bishop showing up with improbable regularity to thwart the men’s progress. Reluctantly, he joins forces with the second-most infamous art thief, a smart aleck named Nolan Booth (Ryan Reynolds), to locate the third and final gold egg that once belonged to Cleopatra. Dwayne Johnson stars as John Hartley, an FBI agent trying to track down an infamous art thief known as “The Bishop” (Gal Gadot). Twists are a mandatory component of heist movies, and the starry 2021 comedy thriller Red Notice ascribes the philosophy that more is better. ![]()
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