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Carry-On review: Netflix’s B-movie Die Hard offers plenty of Christmas action thrills
- Netflix's Carry-On is a new holiday thriller that lacks extra edge. It is a B-movie and is closer to Con Air than Lethal Weapon. Jaume Collet-Serra brings the same economical direction he has given in his previous thrillers.
- Carry-On follows the story of a protagonist Ethan Kopek, played by Taron Egerton, a TSA agent at LAX who gets orders to let a dangerous suitcase onto a packed flight in exchange for his girlfriend’s life. Jason Bateman plays a sociopathic facilitator who orders Ethan to do so.
- The film's protagonist Ethan hasn’t resigned himself to an unfulfilling existence. It's unlike John McClane in Die Hard, who has already lost everything.
- Carry-On wastes little time in trapping its unlikely hero in its central situation. Despite running nearly two hours long, Carry-On clips along an adrenaline-pumping pace from beginning to end.
- The movie never goes anywhere particularly surprising. The full scope of the Traveler’s job only makes a paper-thin amount of sense, but it does play its cards right without being too serious.
- Carry-On lacks the extra edge of precision that elevated Die Hard and Lethal Weapon to genre classics. However, it is a great time, a tightly wound thriller, and dominates audience's interest.
- Even the largely unnecessary B-plot involving an LAPD detective ends up supporting the A-storyline without weighing the story down.
- Carry-On is a welcome return to form for its director, Jaume Collet-Serra, who brings a believable layer of realism to the movie's improbable premise.
- Jaume Collet-Serra has directed thrillers like The Shallows and Non-Stop. Carry-On is a propulsive and immensely fun new holiday thriller.
- Carry-On's script maintains the necessary level of tension, while Jason Bateman's performance shines, despite occasional but noticeable slip-ups in the script and some logic-stretching twists.
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