Red One Movie Review: Another Angle Of Big Star-Studded Christmas Stories

JAKARTA - Entering winter, the film Red One comes as a film that has a story related to Christmas. If the Christmas story is synonymous with family and holidays, this time Red One explores another story from the figure of Santa Claus.

Recently, Christmas-themed films have focused more on the other side or distanced themselves from positive Christmas energy and excitement. This film, directed by Jake Kasdan, features a series of Hollywood stars including Chris Evans, Dwayne Johnson, Lucy Liu, JK Simmons, Kiernan Shipka, and many others.

The film Red One tells the story of Santa Claus (JK Simmons) who becomes a popular figure in the world and social media. Every year, Santa Claus and the team prepare gifts to be distributed to children around the world.

However, they saw a list of more naughty kids this year than previous years. One day, Santa Claus was suddenly kidnapped, 24 hours before they gave gifts on Christmas Eve.

Santa Claus's assistant Callum Drift (Dwayne Johnson) sought help until he met Jack O'ulang (Chris Evans), a hired hunter to find Santa Claus and the person who kidnapped Santa Claus.

On the other hand, Jack O also had difficulties because he had a bad relationship with his son and partner.

Red One with the background of the Christmas story actually distances itself from the essence of Christmas itself. This film is thriller with a full chase and shootout.

The characters are related to the characters of Christmas legends, such as Santa Claus, Krampus, Gryla which are created like fairy tales. Their characters also side by side with the human characters in this film.

The characters played by Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans also look funny and familiar from the comedy films they played earlier. Although initially the film went quite seriously but in the end they took the thriller comedy side towards the end of the story.

Unfortunately, there is too much to be presented in the film so that often they shift from the Santa Claus search story and then the relationship between Jack and his son, then look for clues. The second half was enough Draggy to be boring.

The story was only saved when the story shows the character of the villain. The character is not strong or impressive but enough to create distraction and build curiosity for what will happen in the future.

Not to mention the use of effects and CGI which feels less smooth in some scenes, makes the scene feel less sincere in speech.

However, if you forget all the aspects above, Red One can still be fun to watch. Films that take another point of view about Christmas can still be enjoyed.

Film Red One tayang di bioskop Indonesia mulai Rabu, 6 November.