Most evenings these days we turn on Netflix and find a Christmas movie to watch. I had the remote last night so I got to decide. I didn’t realize it was the premeire day for “Carry-On”. It was classified as a Christmas movie and looked a little more exciting that most of the movies we’ve been watching.
I enjoyed “Carry-On”. It kept me engaged and entertained. It got a little silly at times, but overall it was good. It reminded me of old-school action-thrillers I watched as a kid. The premise of the movie had a lot of promise. Actors were solid. The story didn’t live up to what it could have been in my opinion.
I don’t need a lot of plot complexity to have fun with an action movie. I do need to have what is being presented to me make sense in the world where it exists. It wasn’t that things didn’t make sense… it just felt more dumb than what it needed to be.
I like Taron Edgerton as our hero and Jason Bateman as the villian. They had good performances, but things got really messy at the end and I didn’t think the story gave them much to work with in the 3rd act.
It is interesting to think about how one would react when they are faced with variations of the trolley problem. In this instance Edgerton has to choose beween his pregnant girlfriend and a plane full of 250 that he doesn’t know. It doesn’t turn out to be quite that straight-forward, but that is the essence of it.
“Carry-On” is a worthwhile watch. It is a type of movie we don’t see very often these days. I don’t think it is extremely well executed. It mostly squanders the opportunity to be a great modern entry into the genre.
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