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RED ONE – Henry Jackman
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Red One is a fun and enjoyable action/fantasy/comedy with a seasonal twist, written by Chris Morgan and Hiram Garcia, and directed by Jake Kasdan in his ‘Jumanji’ mode. The film stars Chris Evans as notorious hacker Jack O’Malley, aka The Wolf, whose life is turned upside down when he provides a set of co-ordinates to a mysterious client, which leads to Santa Claus (J. K. Simmons) being kidnapped from his complex in the North Pole. O’Malley – who is a lifelong skeptic and has not believed in Santa since he was a small child – is apprehended by Callum Drift (Dwayne Johnson), head of North Pole security, at the behest of Zoe Harlow (Lucy Liu), the head of M.O.R.A,. a clandestine military organization that oversees and protects a secret peace treaty between mythological creatures and humanity. Despite both of them having misgivings about the other, Drift and O’Malley team up and embark on a wild globe-trotting action adventure, as they try to find out who kidnapped Santa and why. Read more…
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