This year’s big Christmas movie is already out, and streaming

By Jonathan Klotz | Updated 1 hour ago

Dwayne Johnson was once the king of blockbusters, able to turn seemingly any concept into a hit. Those days are behind him as the hierarchy of power in Hollywood has changed, and now his films are just fine.

Black Adamconsidered a massive flop, it is, in retrospect, a solid success, and time will be just as kind to his last film, A Red. The Christmas-themed action caper is now available on Amazon Prime, where it was always meant to be, after a disappointing box office where it failed to recoup its budget, never mind the costs of additional marketing, but the sadness is that it really is. not even a bad movie.

The Cast Understood The Assignment

I went to the theater opening weekend to watch it A Red with a friend of mine, intending to laugh at the film, and instead, due to the power of Johnson and Chris Evans, we ended up enjoying it. Not that the movie is a secret masterpiece or anything, but it features a swole Santa played by JK Simmons, Lucy Liu as the movie’s Nick Fury, Kiernan Shipka chewing the scenery, and Kristofer Hivju, who you recognize. as well as Game of Thrones’ Torsmund Giantsbane, as Krampus in a scene-stealing show. The sum is not greater than the parts, but all participants understood the assignment.

A Red It stars Chris Evans as Jack O’Malley, a hacker, thief, tracker, and generally not very nice guy who literally steals candy from a kid. Dwayne Johnson is Callum Drift, a name that is right up there with Max Power in terms of “totally fake names that someone thought sounded cool”, who is the commander of ELF (Enforcement, Logistics, and Fortification), and he is capable. of a facial expression throughout the film. The two paths cross after Santa is kidnapped and Christmas is in danger of being canceled, which spurs MORA (Mythological Oversight and Restoration Authority) into action.

From ironic laughter to rooting for Santa Claus

The plot of A Red it’s incredibly predictable and simple, but it’s also fun. No one takes the film seriously, and that gives it an absurd energy that is missing in most $250 million blockbusters, which, yes, is the budget for this film, and no, you can’t see it on the screen because most of the special effects. they look like they came out of a SyFy original series. I will say that the evil snowmen looked better in the movie than in the trailer, but what was kept hidden is Johnson shrinking and growing like Ant-Man during the fight scenes, an effect that looks atrocious every time it happens

In spite his faults, A Red it’s fun because it’s a throwback to the Christmas movies of the 80s and 90s, which aren’t afraid to aim. a younger audience. Compared to some modern Christmas classics, such as the inexplicably popular Polar Expressit’s a breath of fresh air to at least try to do something a little different. It’s also fun watching Evans continue his post-Captain America career of playing scumbags.

…most of the special effects look like they came from a SyFy original series

A Red is now available on Amazon Prime, which is where it was always meant to be until the Writer’s Strike last year delayed its release, and Amazon decided to fill a hole in the film’s schedule. I predict that now that it’s available for home viewing, this will become a cult classic Christmas movie. At first, it will be an ironic favorite, but over time, the laughter of the film will end up slowly changing to the laughter with the silent gags of the film, and you will try to be cool and detached on the outside, but inside, you I can’t wait to see Santa swole in all his glory. I know why it happened to me.