41/25
Production costs of Red One (2024) exceed $250 million
Scenario
After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the head of North Pole Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) on an action-packed mission, action packed to save Christmas. .. (The Wrap) The budget includes $50 million for Dwayne Johnson, making him the highest-paid actor to date.
The previous record was a $40 million tie for Robert Downey Jr
for Prvi osvetnik: Rat heroja (2016) and Will Smith for Kralj Richard (2021). Johnson’s previous best paydays were $22 million for Krstarenje junglom (2021) and $20 million for Brzi i veštsi: Hobbs i Shaw (2019). Johnson’s Red One salary could be higher to make up for the lack of a backend box office percentage, as this film should have been released straight to video.
A playful adventure about saving Santa that has enough energy to keep us entertained
(Screen Rant). After Santa is kidnapped, the film presents us with a layered and continuous world building, they went to great lengths to show us all the luxury and grandeur of that universe, where the locations look quite colorful. The North Pole is set to be given a futuristic glow where the snow never stops and the joy and happiness never stop with elegant architecture, while the Krampus abode exudes dark buildings from the distant past that are surrounded by statues like as if falling from a nightmare.
, but occasionally the whole impression is very superficially generic
Dwayne Johnson as Callum was pretty good, his character starts to doubt that people can improve or be better and struggles with that throughout the film. While Evans left a good impression as Jack, who is a master at finding people or anything but his private life is in shambles, the dynamic between the two is full of good moments, especially when they try to connect more deeply. Dialogues.
Lucy Liu is good to see and gave us some badass moments
The mythology is in full imaginative play, with unexpected appearances of famous creatures, how some of them have an intriguing history together, brings intrigue. The action scenes can be excellent, but they can also lack a bit of convincing as the cgi can win in some areas, but the final conflict was quite well thought out and wrapped in emotion.