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‘Carry-On’ Review: TSA Poster Boy Taron Egerton and an Evil Jason Bateman Ground Netflix’s Out-There Christmas Thriller
’Twas the day before Christmas, and all through LAX, no one realized his life were in danger in Netflix's stupid yet satisfying 'Die Hard' knockoff.
Au contraire, T.J. Fixman (a writer on the “Ratchet & Clank” videogame series, penning his first non-“R&C” feature here) and director Jaume Collet-Serra(on familiar ground, following Liam Neeson thrillers “Unknown” and “Non-Stop”) start with a premise so banal you’ve probably imagined it yourself when going through airport security: How would a terrorist outsmart this system? For Spanish director Collet-Serra, the project serves as a sleek, relatively down-to-earth reset after the bombast of “Black Adam,” while still providing a handful of spectacular set-pieces — none more astounding than the single-shot freeway sequence in which FBI agent Elena Cole (Danielle Deadwyler) fights her way out of a speeding vehicle. Watching “Carry-On” on Netflix, you may actually take some pleasure in its preposterousness, which leaves ample room — in the form of long dialogue-free stretches, where Lorne Balfe’s generic score gives everything a made-for-TV feel — to provide sarcastic commentary from the family couch.
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