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CARRY-ON MOVIE REVIEW
Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is living his best life. His beautiful girlfriend Nora (Sofia Carson) has just had a positive pregnancy test and she is slaying problems as a career girl. His best friend Jason (Sinqua Walls) encourages him to reach for that next rung on the corporate ladder. He and Nora are talking vacation plans to celebrate in Tahiti for maybe next Christmas. There’s just one all encompassing issue standing in his way: himself. Ethan is a bare minimum, no ambition, kinda run of the mill, Jersey sad sack. Lucky for him, on this particular Christmas Eve, an unhinged psychopath with some red ribbon flare (Jason Bateman) wants to commit some international terrorism involving a carry-on bag and Ethan the TSA agent looking the other way, or else! Carry-On is directed by ‘movies for dads’ auteur Jaume Collet-Serra and written by T. J. Fixman. It is the Die-Hard too of Netflix holiday cheer full of text tensions, awkward phone calls, and the moral conundrum of rooting for the TSA. Bradly, Nathan, and Jordan bring out the jolly while discussing the journey of Collet-Serra’s early horror film career, his run of TBS films that revitalized the Hollywood action tough guy with a gun stylings of Liam Neeson, and conclude the history lesson with Jaume’s escape from The Rock and a hard place. Marvel at the B-movie film knowledge of Jordan and Nate while Bradly continually mis-names Jason Bateman as if he was some kind of an American Psycho. Happy Holiday screener squad review from oneofus.com to you.
DIRECTED BY: Jaume Collet-Serra
STARRING: Taron Egerton, Jason Bateman, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, Tonatiuh, Theo Rossi, Logan Marshall-Green, Dean Norris, Sinqua Walls, Curtiss Cook, Joe Williamson, Gil Perez-Abraham, Josh Brener
YOUR REVIEWERS
Bradly Martin (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)
Bradly Martin was born in the united states and grew up on a healthy diet of sports, films, and books. A rather shy lad who kept to himself, Bradly soon discovered the best way to know a person was to know what people liked. Throughout the years Bradly became a fan of many things and a fanatic of none. From Doctor Dre, to Doctor Strange and the who’s who of Whos. From Playstation to the Dreamcast and Marvel to DC. From LeBron James to James Bond and Lord of the Rings to Lord Palmerston (or Pitt the Elder if you agree with Wade Boggs) and is a huge fan of dad jokes and randomly obscure Simpsons references. Armed with a vast knowledge of comics, films, and pop culture. Bradly traveled the world making friends and sharing takes. As a young man Bradly married the love of his life young and grew older every year with each new child brought into the brood. If trends continue, Scientists predict that .2% of Canada (where Bradly and family reside) will be populated by Bradly’s children by the year 2029. You can hear him leading and listening to his favorite critics on the Screener Squad and Eye on the prize and maybe even provide some comments of his own.
Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)
Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter here and read her original writings on Deepest Corners of My Notebook.
Nathan Flynn (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews)
A recent transplant to Austin originally hailing from the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is the Midwest, Nathan Flynn has been a movie super freak since he saw “An American Werewolf in London” way too young and grew up worshipping the James Bond franchise and all things related to Cold War-era spycraft. When he’s not watching movies and being a constant defender of the Tron franchise, he can be found practicing his second biggest love: cooking (having been a chef for 10+ years) and hitting his head up against a desk to write screenplays that nobody reads. He also spearheads his own podcast on the Mission Impossible franchise titled “Mission: Impodible”. He can be found rarely posting on his personal twitter.
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