‘Carry-On’ Review: Airport Thriller Barely Achieves Lift Off

Carry-On review: a propulsive Christmas thriller

Netflix's Carry-On is a propulsive and immensely fun new Christmas thriller.

Taron Egerton says new Netflix role is perfect for viewers who 'don't like' him

The Aberystwyth actor is appearing in an action thriller movie called Carry-On, which was released on the streaming platform on Friday, December 13

'Carry-On' Review: Taron Egerton And Jason Bateman In Netflix Thriller

In an attempt to most obviously appeal to fans of Die Hard (and who isn’t?), director Jaume Collet-Serra has come up with something designed for them, especially for those who like Christmas movies that will freak you out. Of course Die Hard was a hard-core action thriller set in a office tower in…

‘Carry-On’ Review: TSA Poster Boy Taron Egerton and an Evil Jason Bateman Ground Netflix’s Out-There Christmas Thriller

The sort of relatably flawed everyday hero who might have been played by Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis back in the ’80s, Ethan Kopek always wanted to be a cop. Instead, he’s working airport security ¬¬— and not even the essential job of scanning passengers’ baggage for bombs. For the past three years, this dead-end TSA agent’s been stuck somewhere deep in the bowels of LAX airport, doing who knows what, dreaming of a promotion that will never come.…

‘Carry-On’ Review: Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman Soar in Netflix's Exciting, Silly Holiday Airport Thriller

Movies have a strange power: They prepare us for worst-case scenarios which will never happen in our real lives. I know zombies aren’t real. I even know that the modern concept of the walking dead only dates back 56 years. But I also know exactly what I’m going to do when the zombie apocalypse breaks out. I know which windows to barricade first, and which common household items would make the best improvised weapon with a judicious application o…

‘Carry On’ Review: Travel Nightmares Amplified

If you’re a fan of white-knuckle-tension suspense thrillers, you know the debate as to whether or not the 1988 classic “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie. “Carry-On,” directed by the expert technician Jaume Collet-Serra, makes absolutely no bones about being a Christmas movie as it seeks to work your nerves in the “Die Hard” tradition. The setting here is a Los Angeles airport. The T.S.A. agent Ethan Kopek, played by Taron Egerton, finds himself th…