A new "Christmas thriller" from Netflix that just released tonight.

One that I initially thought looked decent, if not a bit generic, but turns out is actually getting pretty rave reviews all of the sudden, from a number of critics I like. In fact, it's currently at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is obviously better than most Netflix movies.

I haven't seen it yet myself, but just wanted to alert the board, considering it's somewhat under the radar, and see what y'all think...

Carry-On
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21382296/
December 13, 2024
Netflix Exclusive

Carry-On: Jaume Collet-Serra delivers a major and much-needed return to form with a fantastic Netflix thriller about a TSA agent who has to let a dangerous bag through security to save his girlfriend’s life. good good stuff. Streams tomorrow.

my review: https://t.co/RN0WpiVBNv pic.twitter.com/MaKS0mT0Ur

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) December 13, 2024

Jaume Collet-Serra returns to what he does best with #CarryOn, a thrilling new Christmas crime classic.

Read @itismitchell's review: https://t.co/dY1jjmRnfu pic.twitter.com/kMZ9gAj6dn

— The Film Stage 📽 (@TheFilmStage) December 13, 2024

Wrote a little bit about CARRY-ON, a really fun Christmas action flick hitting Netflix tomorrow. Jaume Collet-Serra is back, baby!https://t.co/Mw81tZBNbP

— Chris Evangelista (@cevangelista413) December 13, 2024

We’re so back, Jaume Collet-Serra heads. Carry-On is better than most Best Picture contenders this year. An incredibly calibrated thrill ride with a stand-out villain performance from Jason Bateman. A new Christmas classic. pic.twitter.com/5BypXULyE2

— Jordan Raup (@jpraup) December 7, 2024

CARRY-ON is awesome. Great action thriller with a killer premise. Taron Egerton deserves his own DIE HARD franchise, or with the way he runs in this one, give him MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE. Jason Bateman great as a calculated bad guy. New Christmas action favorite!

— Ethan Anderton (@Ethan_Anderton) December 13, 2024

Thanks. I know what I'm watching tonight.

Just finished it. Meh - 5/10
A fair bit of the acting wasn't great. Several plot holes and unbelievable moments, but there were plenty of twists and turns that kept my attention.

Jason Bateman was good as always.

I don't know the actor who played the TSA agent, but I thought his acting was pretty awful.

By far not the worst movie I've seen, but I won't be recommending it to anyone.

Josepi said:

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Just finished it. Meh - 5/10
A fair bit of the acting wasn't great. Several plot holes and unbelievable moments, but there were plenty of twists and turns that kept my attention.

Jason Bateman was good as always.

I don't know the actor who played the TSA agent, but I thought his acting was pretty awful.

By far not the worst movie I've seen, but I won't be recommending it to anyone.

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Yeah ... I agree. Not really an action fan because the filmmakers always expect you to drop all pretense of reality -- i.e. two guys fighting both fall 50 feet on metal or concrete and get up to keep fighting -- but I went in with an open mind.

The whole thing was pretty far-fetched. I found myself saying over and over, "That would never happen."

Saw it last night. Not bad! Bateman does a good job playing the bad guy!

EclipseAg said:

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Josepi said:

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Just finished it. Meh - 5/10
A fair bit of the acting wasn't great. Several plot holes and unbelievable moments, but there were plenty of twists and turns that kept my attention.

Jason Bateman was good as always.

I don't know the actor who played the TSA agent, but I thought his acting was pretty awful.

By far not the worst movie I've seen, but I won't be recommending it to anyone.

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Yeah ... I agree. Not really an action fan because the filmmakers always expect you to drop all pretense of reality -- i.e. two guys fighting both fall 50 feet on metal or concrete and get up to keep fighting -- but I went in with an open mind.

The whole thing was pretty far-fetched. I found myself saying over and over, "That would never happen."

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5/10 as a movie is pretty accurate.
If you grade on action movie scale it's more like 7.5 to 8 out of 10.

Josepi said:

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I don't know the actor who played the TSA agent, but I thought his acting was pretty awful.

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He played Elton in that biopic from a couple years ago. And was the lead in the Apple mini series Blackbird.

There you go. I k ew he looked familiar. He was good in Rocket Man.

Urban Ag said:

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Seen the previews and it's looks interesting and Bateman is enough reason to give it a try.

As a frequent flyer in the post 9/11 world, still trying to wrap my brain around the concept of young, good looking, fit, heroic, TSA agent with a smokin hot girlfriend. No worky.

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Actually saw one in the San Diego airport that looked like a sharp ex marine or special forces guy and immediately started worrying that he was going to discover the edibles in my carry on. Then did a quick google search in line and realized it's legal to fly out of Cali with em.

Might take one tonight and watch this movie in his honor.

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EclipseAg said:

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Josepi said:

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Just finished it. Meh - 5/10
A fair bit of the acting wasn't great. Several plot holes and unbelievable moments, but there were plenty of twists and turns that kept my attention.

Jason Bateman was good as always.

I don't know the actor who played the TSA agent, but I thought his acting was pretty awful.

By far not the worst movie I've seen, but I won't be recommending it to anyone.

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Yeah ... I agree. Not really an action fan because the filmmakers always expect you to drop all pretense of reality -- i.e. two guys fighting both fall 50 feet on metal or concrete and get up to keep fighting -- but I went in with an open mind.

The whole thing was pretty far-fetched. I found myself saying over and over, "That would never happen."

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5/10 as a movie is pretty accurate.
If you grade on action movie scale it's more like 7.5 to 8 out of 10.

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My wife picked this one last night and I mostly agree with the above. Good entertainment when you're not expecting a top notch level film.

Damn. That was so good!

How does Netflix release so much **** and then there's stuff like this they drop out of nowhere that's so well-produced??

DannyDuberstein said:

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The 58% audience rating is much more accurate than the critic 86%. They must only let that critic group watch B movies and amputee porn.

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Agreed, the critics are IDIOTS and/or have biased views that most of the general population do not agree with. I'm interested in checking this one out, but I'm going in with low expectations.

The critic hate around here is so ridiculously over the top.

Did I post that they were idiots? No, I didn't. And you literally just made the same point I did initially. They must be buried in crap and then looked on this favorably. Take the lecture elsewhere. We get enough of them from you out here

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Netflix has so much crap... this was a lot of fun. And always great to watch sinister Bateman

Has Taron Egerton really bulked up lately? I thought he was wearing a ballistics vest under his shirt the whole time. Like he was physically bigger but weirdly lumpy?

Movie was a 3/10

I enjoyed this movie and would recommend any to watch it. I thought Bateman was a great villain, and everything the TSA agent tried to do, he was there to knock him back a peg or two. There chess game was entertaining. GF not the best actress, but fine job.
The car chase scene, being CGI was awesome! That seemed pretty realistic and got my heart pumping.

There is a bit in the beginning that screams "TSA Agents are people too, damnit" but whatever, when you do so many cop, military, pilot hero movies, you're left with TSA Agents and Mailmen....

edit: I'd love to hear the defenders of Die Hard is a Christmas movie, how you would classify Carry-on. If you call DH a Christmas movie, I don't know how you don't call Carry-on a Christmas Movie. It is almost checking the box on DH's criteria and including it all in the movie.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is:


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