Next week sees the release of RED 2 (review HERE), which tells the story of retired special agents who are forced to get up to their old, explosion-y tricks again. In the original there was the likes of Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox and Morgan Freeman, and the sequel sees them joined by none other than Sir Anthony Hopkins.

This got us thinking about some of the other movies that had their actors playing characters who might be deemed too old for a certain type of behaviour, but they get up to it anyways. We're not talking about the likes of Up or The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, we're talking guns and violence and murder and other ways in which they are breaking the law!

THE EXPENDABLES (2010)

While some of the cast of the original and the 2012 sequel weren't exactly old, the movie was headlined by the aging action hero trio of Stallone (now 67), Schwarzenegger (also 67) and Willis (a sprightly 58). That's not to mention the likes of Dolph Lundgren (56), Chuck Norris (73) or Jean-Claude Van Damme (53). Yet all they do is go around shooting bad guys and blowing up parts of Eastern Europe. Good for them.

GRAN TORINO (2008)

Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, this is an old fogie racist who hates his new Korean neighbours, but begrudgingly becomes friends with one of the teenage boys in the family, and gets caught up in his life when he gets involved with the wrong crowd. Despite being 78 at the time, Eastwood was still impressively scary, and certainly still knew how to handle himself.

HARRY BROWN (2009)

Michael Caine is the old folk this time around, 76 years old at the time of the movie's release, playing an ex-soldier who goes on a roaring rampage of revenge when his best mate gets murdered by a group of be-hoodie'd teenagers, and Harry takes it upon himself to settle the score. Pretty much Gran Torino mixed with Death Wish, and set in England.

APT PUPIL (1998)

Although only 59 years old when the movie was released, Ian McKellan looked convincingly older, and convincingly evil, as this ex-Nazi who is discovered by his teenage neighbour. Of course, getting discovered reawakens his truly dark heart, and it's not long before McKellan's Kurt Dussander is managing to frighten Jewish survivors to death simply being in their company.

ROBOT & FRANK (2012)

Not everyone on this list are pure evil, but even Frank (played by the fantastic Frank Langhella) is still a naughty boy, as a serial cat thief with Alzheimer's, who manages to reprogramme his assisted living robot to help him pull off some local heists just for the heck of it. There is no murdering happening here, but there are plenty of laughs and heartstring pullings.