Netflix has really cranked out the original content this year. Some of it good, some of it really really not but that is a separate discussion. We will now be diving into the plethora of original films Netflix has come out with this year. Starting with Carry-On, a new Jason Bateman film that is by all means a Christmas movie. Now I don’t have a lot of faith in Netflix’s original movies. They are more often than not, truly terrible, but it came out in 2024 which means that it is on the watch list.
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So there aren’t enough actual action scenes to call this an action movie. But it doesn’t have enough tension to call it a drama or thriller. Really it’s nothing. The plot is flimsy, the character development and depth is nonexistent, the pacing is terrible. The FBI lady was super unnecessary, they tried way too hard to make this a character driven story but they failed spectacularly. Overall I don’t think the movie deserves anything more than a 5/10 and I think even that is a little generous. It was a victim of poor development. Almost all of the issues could have been fixed with just another proper pass at the script, but alas.
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