“Netflix’s Carry-On is a propulsive and immensely fun new holiday thriller.” A perfectly cast Jason Bateman Jaume Collet-Serra’s slick, economical direction Pulse-pounding editing A familiar story A few logic-stretching twists An underbaked B-plot
Carry-On may be the ideal Netflix movie. The new film is part of one of cinema’s greatest and most entertaining subgenres: the holiday action movie. While its debt to titles like Die Hard and the Shane Black-penned Lethal Weapon is made immediately clear, Carry-On lacks the extra edge of precision and the movie star-level charisma that elevated those titles beyond simple action-movie fare and into genre classics. It is a B-movie, plain and simple, and one that feels closer to beloved ’90s thrillers like Con Air and Air Force One than any genuine classics.
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