Red One (2024)

Red One (2024)

6/10

Starring

Dwayne Johnson

Chris Evans

Lucy Liu

J. K. Simmons

 

Directed by Jake Kasdan

 

The movie has a lot of one-liners for how to be a better person, but not enough actual good plot to make this a good movie, worth recommending to anyone. Funny enough, even though many critics dislike this film, I found it ok.

I felt the movie, did its job of creating an action world, where Santa is like guarded by these top notch, secret service agency of mythical creatures, one step above the James Bond world of gadgetry.

I can tell that the whole macho madness that this movie has can be very annoying, it has so many muscle flex scenes that do not matter to anything useful at all. If you look at the level of CGI in this movie, and the number of A-list actors it has, you can see why many believe Amazon spent way too much.

This is not a box-office breaking movie, and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for me, has never been a reason to run to the cinema to see a movie, even though many production companies’ think so.

250 million on production alone, is way too much for a movie, with a plot like this, that to me is not meant to bring in more than half that amount from viewing.

Here is what the plot is about. We are introduced to a world where Santa is real, and he does the whole thing of visiting the kids every Christmas day to give them gifts. It turns out that there is an agency called MORA, who deals with these mythical creatures, led by Zoe (Lucy Liu), they maintain the relationship between us humans and these creatures.

Santa has his own, next level James Bond like secret detail who protect him and run his affairs of being Santa, called ELF (Enforcement, Logistics and Fortification), led by Cal (The Rock).

As you can expect, Santa is not without enemies, and one of them contacted the best tracker in the world, Jack (Chris Evans) to help pinpoint where Santa is. Jack is unaware of who the people who contacted him are trying to track, he just does the job.

Well, Santa is kidnapped, and MORA was able to track the person involved to Jack, now he and Cal must find and rescue Santa to save Christmas.

I know it sounds like every Christmas movie, that gives you the run around and says, they must now work together to save Christmas. Well, it is like every Christmas movie, with Jack being the unbeliever, who gets to see that his actions have consequences.

It is an okay movie as I said, but it is very hard to say, run and go see it.