Carry-On
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Carry-On is a 2024 American action thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by T. J. Fixman. The film stars Taron Egerton, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler and Jason Bateman.
Plot
A young TSA agent gets blackmailed into bringing a nerve agent on a plane flight.
Why It's Cleared For Takeoff
- The choice of having a TSA agent being portrayed as a hero when most other depictions depict them as villains or morally dubious at best was an incredible choice that even the TSA praise themselves.
- Excellent performances from Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman known for Sing and Zootopia respectively.
- Great pacing.
- Impressive action scenes such as Ethan locking the Traveler into an airtight refrigerator with the gas agent.
- Incredible visuals for a movie costing on $47 million.
- Funny moments like the Traveler eating chips while talking to Ethan.
- Nice direction from Jaume Collet-Serra an improvement over Black Adam.
- "Atta boy, Ethan."
Bad Qualities
- There are inaccuracies to how planes and security work in this film, but the writer has stated that there wouldn't be much stakes if everything went by realistically.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 88 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Taron Egerton and an against-type Jason Bateman make for great adversaries in Carry-On, a throwback thriller that clears all checkpoints of plot logic with its confident execution." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.