Red One is about Callum Drift who is Santa’s Head of Security and must team up with Jack O’Malley, a famous tracker to save Santa who has been kidnapped. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons, Bonnie Hunt, Kiernan Shipka, Wesley Kimmel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Nick Kroll, and Kristofer Hivju.

I enjoyed Red One a lot. I thought it was a fun holiday action movie. The cast does a good job. Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans have good chemistry. It was nice to see Chris Evans in a different type of role for this one. Chris Evans is most known for his role as Steve Rogers aka Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His character Jack O’Malley is more similar to previous roles he used to play before landing Captain America. The movie relies heavily on the chemistry of Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans which helped make it enjoyable.

One thing that was nice for me was that there was a new theatrical Christmas movie. There are a lot of holiday movies, but they are either on the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, or Netflix as well as other streaming services. There have not been many theatrical holiday movies in a while. I hope there will be more holiday movies in the future, but time will tell. Also, I did enjoy the fact that Red One is a more grown-up movie. Families can go to see it, but it’s not a movie just geared toward children. It can be enjoyed by all ages. The humor itself is more adult given some of the language that is used in the movie.

The movie does have a nice plot. It is pretty self-explanatory but there is also some heart in the film too. It’s just a fun action movie. It also has good effects. It gets the job done for what the movie is.

Red One is a fun modern holiday movie with two great leads. It has fun action, some heart, a few twists here and there, and some humor. It is definitely worth checking out for anyone who wants to go to the movies and see something Christmasy but that is also a little different than what’s on Hallmark and Lifetime as well as most of the movies on Netflix.