Alexander Dunning
| “ | I love watching you being the goody guy, kicking ass for your country (laughs), it showed a spectacular lack of vision, you're a tool just like him, you think he's made me a lot of money now? Just wait till he becomes president. (Sighs) I love running rings around you. But I gotta admit, I never figured that when I ran you out of my house, you'd actually nab him. | „ |
| ~ Dunning, confessing to why he has been watching Frank. |
Alexander Dunning is the true main antagonist of 2010 action-comedy film Red. He is an arms dealer who is behind a conspiracy to cover a village massacre in Guatemala order by the Vice-President Robert Stanton.
He was portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss.
Role
Dunning was know for selling illegal weapons throughout the world, but it wasn't until he became involved of the Vice-President's plan to cover the killings of Guatemalan villagers in 1981, and that Frank Moses (the hero of the film) may have a connection to it.
To that end, he sends assassins to kill agents, but they failed thanks to Frank's old training skills. As Frank searches on his way to find out answers, he learns of the mission and follows several clues leading to Dunning.
As Frank interrogates Dunning, the latter explains that Stanton was the target of extraction during the massacre, just as Stanton gets his guards to surround Frank and his gang. Though Joe is killed, Frank and his gang manage to capture Stanton and trade him to Dunning in exchange for Frank's girlfriend Sarah Ross. However, Dunning betrays Stanton by injuring him, revealing that he is the one behind the village massacre and that Stanton was nothing more than a pawn.
Dunning then sets his men to kill Frank and the team, but they manage to fight back. After Frank's team finish off Dunning's men, Frank proceeds to finish off Dunning by crushing his windpipe, killing him.