Red One Review

 

Red One is a Christmas action comedy fantasy movie. Production was done by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Seven Bucks Productions, Chris Morgan Productions, and The Detective Agency, with Amazon MGM Studios being the distributor. The movie is written by Chris Morgan and directed by Jake Kasdan.

The story is, Santa Claus has been kidnapped! Now his head of security Callum Drift is on a mission to find him, but the only person who can help is hacker Jack O'Malley. As they continue their search they soon discover there's something bigger at play.

Initial Reaction

Now in full honesty I was fully pumped for this movie, didn't even make it on my most anticipated list. I went to see this strictly out of curiosity and maybe get some decent or good material out of it for a review.

Cons

I've got nothing.

Middle Ground

There's three slight issues. One, the CGI. Sometimes it looked pretty good, nothing mind blowing but still good, other times, no. It wasn't good. Then there's the pacing. Most of the times the ball's move just fine, nothing to complain about. But there are scenes were you almost get the feeling of the long runtime. Then lastly there's the dialogue. It's either just okay nothing to get bent of shape over or it's predictable. You know exactly what someone's gonna say before they say it. That aspect really needed more polishing. And because of this slightly unpolished dialogue, sadly some parts of the acting isn't good, although that could also be blamed on directing but I think you get the point.

Pros

Now there are some good things from Red One, at least from my perspective. One being the humor. Somethings didn't work, but nine times out of ten I was having a good time. Second is the take on Santa and how he operates. I really dug it and it was also pretty funny too. It was like Santa and his elves were a spy or black ops team, only you know, much more wholesome.

Now I didn't hate this movie like everybody else does but, I do believe you don't have to rush to see this. It would be best to sit and wait for this whether as a rental or something to stream.

My final rating is, Okay.

Well this was probably one of the more easier movies for me to review. Anyways, come back on Monday, Nov 18th, for my A Look Back at review of, Gladiator. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.