DIY VIRAL
The author Jonathan Klotz
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Streamers have topped the charts for the most unlikely movies this holiday season with Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans. Red Onewhich has just hit the box office, number one on Amazon since its release, and Jack Black's A Satanic Christmas, Dear Santa Clausis on its way to becoming one of Paramount+'s biggest hits of all time. Compliance with them is hand luggage, debuted on Netflix on December 13th, and every day since then the airport thriller has been the most popular movie on the world's most popular streaming service.
Simple and predictable, but a lot of fun
Carrying has a simplistic plot, but that's part of the charm. Taron Egerton has been Robin Hood and Elton John, but here he's Ethan, a LAX TSA officer who targets a traveler, delightfully evil. Jason Bateman. The traveler uses blackmail and threats of violence against Ethan's girlfriend to force the officer to release one particular bag. It's not a spoiler to reveal that the bag goes through, and yes, it's a lethal weapon, but it's still half the movie.
Ethan is forced to make a series of moral decisions as he learns how far he will have to go to protect his friends and family. Complicating the situation is Traveller's network of agents, which includes an equally corrupt person named the Watcher, played by Sons of Anarchy Theo Rossi, who, like Uatu no Marvel comics, you can't help but intervene. Dean Norris also shows up, playing a TSA agent, and then the bodies start to fall Carrying ends up with a surprisingly impressive kill count before all is said and done.
The kind of movie you can't find in theaters
While watching the film, I couldn't help but remember the airplane thriller with a similar theme, Red Eyewhich also took a wild turn at one point. Carrying is cut from the same cloth, but today it stands out as a film that would have been buried in theaters but succeeds streaming. For decades, theaters were filled with thrillers like this one, mid-budget films with a fun premise and few recognizable stars, more focused on having a good time than being seen as Oscar bait or building a shared world.
This is what makes Carrying so refreshing and why it has resonated so strongly with viewers over the past two weeks. You can start it, enjoy it for 2 hours and then the story ends. Aside from a handful of B-movies that still get wide release each year, this type of movie-watching experience mostly comes from theaters, but streaming and at-home can thrive.
With a budget of $47 million, or one-fifth of the Red One, Carrying has defied even the most optimistic pre-release expectations. Critics love it, with 87 percent on Rotten tomatoesand while the audience rating averages 53 percent, that might just be because much of today's public expects a big big-budget spectacle from every movie and forgot that this is exactly the kind of thriller that fills theaters every week. in the 90s. It's predictable, and the performances are all perfectly adequate, but it's also the most popular movie in the world right now.
Carrying is streamed only Netflix.
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