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Ex-black ops CIA agents Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) and Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) , now considered RED (Retired, Extremely Dangerous), reunite with retired MI6 sharpshooter Victoria Winsler (Helen Mirren) to track down Nightshade, a portable nuclear weapon smuggled in pieces and hidden in the Russian Kremlin by physicist Edward Bailey (Anthony Hopkins), whom MI6 has kept incarcerated in a London asylum for the past 32 years. Aided by Frank's girlfriend Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) and Russian secret agent Katja Petrocovich (Catherine Zeta-Jones), the five attempt to retrieve the Nightshade device while dodging South Korean contract killer Han Cho Bai (Lee Byung-hun) and Pentagon agent Jack Horton (Neal McDonough).

RED 2 is the sequel to Red (2010) (2010), which is based on a comic book written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Cully Hamner. The screenplay for RED 2 was written by screenwriter brothers Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber.

Marvin fires the AK at general area of the helicopter (notice that he doesn't really aim down the sights, he isn't trying to shoot it down or damage it) so it would retreat and get outside the explosion radius. He's making them run away so they survive the incoming explosion.