Action-Adventure Red One - Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans

[blueharvest]

 

[Dave McFly]

watched it on prime after work tonight I liked it, my niece has not seen it I would see it again on the big screen with her I think she will dig it.

 

[Mani-Man]

Watched it too yesterday on Prime...it was fine.
Like, i liked the world building a lot...im a nerd for Santa World Building in movies.

At times the movie stretches scenes it didnt need, which you can feel in the final act that feels incredible rushed...especially the ending after it.
They dragged out scenes for no reason and had then to hurry the final act, that feels a bit weird.

The CGI is fine, but you never really see a Budget that was higher than Avatars.
A okay movie that broke its neck clearly due to the budget.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

My question is how intentionally self aware is this thing intended to be?

The movie I watched suggested everyone is in on the joke but the budget suggests otherwise.

Also watch this thing high as a ****ing kite. You will not regret it.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Deck Rickard]

I saw this yesterday. Better than I thought, I’ll admit, though my expectations were low. I enjoyed Chris Evans the most; he had the best lines and his character’s reactions to this ridiculous concept were what worked best in the movie. Johnson… was fine I guess but I really only found him interesting when he was playing off of Evans. I would have liked to have seen more of JK Simmons’ jacked Santa Claus but he’s barely in it. Bonnie Hunt was similarly wasted in a nothing role. Kiernan Shipka and Tormund are pretty fun and Lucy Liu does fine but I don’t know, the film was just trying to be too much and too little at the same time. I guess I can’t fault it too much for being yet another Christmas movie where Santa is real and delivers presents to every house on the planet and yet somehow people don’t believe he exists. Yet in this version, apparently all of the functioning democracies of the world are aware of him and for some reason if he fails to deliver said presents, it causes an apocalypse or something? I’m not really sure. Maybe I missed something.

Also, the North Pole looks sort of like someone modded Minas Tirith into an Arkham game. It seems cool when you see it from a distance but when they zoom in, the bad CGI becomes painfully apparent. Anyway, it’s not the worst Christmas action movie out there, though I would recommend Carry-On over this if you’re looking for a better one.

 

[Pittman4Two]

I also watched this last night with the kiddos. Probably should've screened it first though I was hoping it was a legit family Christmas movie.

It was a fun movie, but, with the moments of profanity and creepy images from a kid's standpoint, it left me a bit disappointed. I probably should be disappointed in myself for assuming that this would be a big-budget Prep and Landing-type Christmas flick where everything is taken seriously but with tongues firmly planted in cheeks.

Spoiler

I was expecting neither the terms "********", "holy ****", "what the hell", and even a bleeped F-bomb, nor the use of a guy as a conduit for a witch's communication.

I may watch this from time to time, but, unfortunately, it will not be part of the Christmas movie rotation at the house.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah the movie seemed to be kind of a hodge podge of different genres and not in a great way. The way the ice cream truck and the piano appear weirdly sort of feel like something out of a horror movie, while most of the action sequences feel like they’re trying to be a Marvel or Fast & Furious movie. None of that is necessarily bad but it doesn’t all mesh well. I think the tone doesn’t quite work either; the concept is so obviously silly that it’s hard not to laugh whenever Johnson mention the “Naughty List” but he plays it so straight and stoic that it makes it kinda cringe.