US Edition‘Carry-On’ Review: Airport Thriller Barely Achieves Lift Off
- Netflix's 'Carry-On' features Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman in leading roles as they engage in a tense cat-and-mouse game.
- The film is categorized as a holiday airport thriller, creating suspense during the festive season.
- The narrative involves a time-bomb-ticking scenario, heightening the tension throughout the story.
- The film showcases the dynamic between Egerton and Bateman's characters, emphasizing their involvement in the suspenseful plot.
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‘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…
‘Carry-On’ Review: Airport Thriller Barely Achieves Lift Off
Each year there exists a great debate as to whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is, obviously). No matter which side of the argument you fall into, we can all agree that Hollywood is desperate to recreate the magic and success of that great action flick, which sees Bruce Willis single-handedly save the day after a terrorist attack on Christmas Eve. But despite all of these attempts, there’s never been any movie that’s lived up to that clas…
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