Praise : Red One takes a stab at a modern day take on the mythical Santa Clause in a movie about the head of North Pole security (Dwayne Johnson) teaming up with a notorious hacker (Chris Evans) in order to locate a kidnapped Santa. I did like that this movie displayed what the holidays have become to people just like in the horror movie Thanksgiving. I actually enjoyed J.K. Simmons as Santa for the time he was in the movie. I also liked the villain in the movie witch Gryla (Kiernan Shipka),Shipka has the cold unflinching stare down to a T. I believe I smiled at some of the going ons in the movie a few times. I did like the tech used in the movie and the various creature and character designs.
PROBLEMS: Evans and Johnson basically are the same characters they have portrayed in every other action comedy they have been in. Just looking at the ages of the "kids" at the start of the movie and the fact that was presented to them would upset them made no sense. This is another movie that forgets what was stated two minutes before. With the "Authority" that was placed in the movie it waters down the main plot of the movie. I felt the movie wastes time on something that was supposed to be funny but it ultimately wasn't. The complete change a character makes made no sense. I was never fully involved with the familial threads as the movie wanted me to be.
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