d3193

Kick off your shoes and go for the ride.

A TSA agent is our hero, which was a strange idea to start with, but it works. I watched because of Jason Bateman being cast as the bad guy - and he truly delivers. Egerton becomes an action star. I loved his performance - now I'll be looking out for his future roles. Try to ignore the scenes with Sofia Carson, her part is underwritten, and she feels miscast (rarely am I annoyed by a performer's makeup, it should be invisible. I was here). Otherwise it's a romp of a Christmas movie, with some top-notch sequences. It'll never make the Oscars, or any top ten list Don't feel bad about enjoying it.

It might have been a riveting story, but I couldn't get past the distracting colors. Almost all the scenes were an intense cyan, with the exception of flesh tones. This became fashionable in the movies about twenty years ago, but fortunately is less so now. It's reminiscent of the two-strip technicolor process of the 1920s, before the full range three-strip process was introduced. I have never understood the appeal. It seems almost to be used as a crutch in post production instead of decent production design in the original shoot. I realize I'm probably in a minority here, and this just comes across as an irrational and irelevant rant. But thats what it did to me. I gave up after about twenty minutes.