Review: Jake Kasdan's big-budget 'Red One,' starring Chris Evans and Dwayne Johnson, is a disastrous bid at a Christmas franchise for Amazon/MGM.

Ripe with DC and Marvel alums, Red One could easily become a Christmas franchise in today's culture of existing IP.

The embargo has lifted for Red One and most critics aren’t impressed with the Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans Christmas adventure comedy movie. Amazon MGM Studios’ Red One opens in United States theaters on 15,

Here's the bad joke of Hollywood Christmas movies. They tend to begin, and end, with a blast of old-school Yuletide cheer. But that's just a tease. In between, most of them make a point of straying about as far from the Christmas spirit as possible.

Praise must once again be given to Chris Morgan’s script, which came from a story concept originating with Red One producer Hiram Garcia. As the Seven Bucks Productions stalwart wanted to create “a kick-ass Christmas movie,” action and emotion are complimented by some seriously intriguing world building.

Dwayne Johnson has recently made his young fan dream come true during Red One premiere at Berlin.On November 5, Dwayne took to Instagram and posted an adorable clip from his movie premiere

Projector company Barco has announced that from 15 November five theatres in the USA will present the upcoming movie Red One, showcasing the talents of Dwayne Johnson.

The movie's shining light is JK Simmons as a muscly Santa who can easily do 500 press-ups in five minutes. He manages to sell the schmaltzy lines and is a great fit as Saint Nick in his second Santa movie outing following Netflix's exceptional Klaus. Unfortunately, the plot means he's off-screen after the first act and the movie suffers for it.

It sounds like a bad joke, but Jake Kasdan (and $250 million) turned a story about action heroes rescuing Santa Claus into a real film The post ‘Red One’ Review: Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evan’s Expensive Christmas Action Comedy Could Have Been Worse appeared first on TheWrap.

Lucy Liu and J.K. Simmons also star in Jake Kasdan's action fantasy about an elaborate plot to kidnap Santa Claus and hijack his reindeer for nefarious purposes.