Red may just be the first in a series of films that takes aim at former Vice President Dick Cheney, though playfully done. The first layer of the plot concerns a former CIA operative, Frank Moses, who has been put on an execution list ordered by the Vice President. At a deeper level the film expresses our collective angst concerning Cheney. The film's rhizome extends into the underlying betrayal the public intuits Cheney had of the CIA. As Moses leads his former peers in a mission to "out" the VP (who allegedly engaged in atrocities in Guatemala before becoming VP), they discover the real villain behind the executions: a defense contractor. Thus, the film turns from Cheney to a second angst inspiring legacy of the Reagan-Bush-Bush-Cheney era: the rise and power of the military-industrial power, especially the recent threat of groups such as the former company called Blackwater.
The VP in the film ends up not quite so villainous as he points the finger at the defense industry. The real Dick Cheney, or so the film seems to (Lucuna) infer, remains Retired and Extremely Dangerous.
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