Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot go for the green in 'Red Notice'

(CNN)"Red Notice" has the polished consciousness of thing concocted successful a laboratory for maximum social-media attraction (Dwayne Johnson! Ryan Reynolds! Gal Gadot!), past pieced unneurotic Frankenstein-style from parts of different movies. Yet the nett effect is mildly enjoyable, creating a throwback caper movie that showcases its stars doing what they bash best, oregon alternatively for which they're champion known.

Written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (who teamed with Johnson, whose institution produced the film, connected "Central Intelligence" and "Skyscraper"), "Red Notice"borrows unabashedly from different films but doesn't look the slightest spot red-faced oregon apologetic astir it. There's the mismatched cop-thief pairing from "48 Hrs.," the enactment series from "True Lies," the clue-solving from "National Treasure," and truthful on.

Any movie that jokes astir the sought-after loot being a MacGuffin, a notation to Alfred Hitchcock's sanction for immoderate priceless artifact acceptable his plots successful motion, oregon has Reynolds whistle the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" march intelligibly isn't taking itself excessively seriously.

Again, though, it mostly works, with Johnson arsenic Agent John Hartley, an FBI profiler (a small bulky for that gig, arsenic is pointed out) connected the way of Reynolds' Nolan Booth, a maestro thief searching for 3 gold-plated eggs of immeasurable worth fixed to Cleopatra.

Their narration is analyzable by different thief, Gadot's The Bishop -- similar Booth, fixed a "red notice," oregon "most wanted" tag, by the planetary bureau Interpol -- who invariably seems to beryllium 1 measurement up of some of them, forcing the 2 to grudgingly squad up.