Definitely one of the films of 2024, Red One might be a box-office bomb, but it isn’t the complete trainwreck of a movie you might think.
It suffers from several issues that make it extremely meh. One very muscular issue is Dwayne Johnson. I don’t know the situation well, but it feels as though he’s so scared of being seen as either bad or beatable that he’s pretty much stripped away all his charm. Is it an ego thing? Feels that way, and it’s completely undermined his career.
You know what, let’s just skip through some points real quick. Evans is fine, though I can see why he might return to Marvel given his film choices since. The story is obvious, hitting pretty much every Christmas film point it could. The CGI is fucking laughable at points; rushed and blurry.
And at one point Johnson makes a comment about looking normal and it was the funniest damn thing in the film. Just a little funnier than the overt “world building” put in place to clearly support a franchise.
No thank you.
Red One is free on Prime. As a piece of entirely disposable entertainment for a couple of hours, it’s fine to let wash over you. J. K. Simmons is always good value at least.
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