Ida Red (Melissa Leo) is sentenced to a long stretch behind bars after a heist went wrong. She learns that she has only months to live and is therefore determined to die as a free woman, not in jail. The crime family is headed in her absence by brother, Dallas (Frank Grillo), and son, Wyatt (Josh Hartnett), who need to pull off one big heist to save their mum.... (Full plot summary below)
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Ida Red (Melissa Leo) is sentenced to a long stretch behind bars after a heist went wrong. She learns that she has only months to live and is therefore determined to die as a free woman, not in jail. The crime family is headed in her absence by brother, Dallas (Frank Grillo), and son, Wyatt (Josh Hartnett), who need to pull off one big heist to save their mum.
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| VarietyJay WeissbergWhat holds Ida Red together and gives it solidity is the relationships between Wyatt, Jeanie and Darla, which might not be entirely original but they don’t need to be thanks to good ensemble performances, with Hartnett very much at ease and Hublitz making an impression in her biggest role to date. |
| Screen DailyNeil YoungSwab’s strong suit, conversely, lies in the selection and handling of his performers. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyIf this kind of genre stuff is your cinematic meat, and you’re properly enamored of any of the principal cast members, Swab has enough directorial energy to keep the proceedings watchable at the least. |
| Screen RantFerdosa AbdiThere needs to be a vision, an ambition to make something good and memorable. Ida Red, unfortunately, seems to fall into the trap of emulating better crime dramas instead of trying to stand out on the merits of its own story. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangHere, no one seems capable of envisaging even the most immediate consequences of their increasingly vicious actions, and so where “Ida Red” wants us to thrill to the idea of criminality as almost a genetic inheritance, a trait carried down a bloodline like blue eyes or freckles, in fact, all it really suggests is that this family might be really dumb, and actually quite bad at crime. |
| The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanCompetent enough to be dull and nowhere near bold enough to be interesting, the new crime thriller by John Swab (Body Brokers) evaporates from memory even faster than it can dole out plot twists. |
| User ReviewMauro_Lanari(Mauro Lanari) Dysfunctional family in the eternal far west of Yankeeland. Anyone who saw in it the romanticism of "Heat" (Mann '95) is blaspheming. |
