During the holiday season, one of the worst nightmares is the mandatory trips to visit distant relatives. And Hollywood, of course, has learned to explore all the emotions that revolve around the period.

Among the Christmas dramas and comedies, there is one of the most successful franchises from the 1980s that, for many, is one of the main classics, alongside and equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and it is called Die Hard, an action film that made Bruce Willis an international megastar. The film Carry On, from Netflix, takes advantage of the same hook as the 1988 film and mixes suspense with action, using hints of another film from the 2000s, Phone Booth.

If you’ve seen both films, you’ll already understand all the clichés and spoilers possible in a film without any imagination, which is only saved by the fact that Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton are charismatic enough to keep us following along, even if it’s anticipating each “surprise”.

The Christmas thriller revolves around Ethan Kopek (Egerton), a young airline security agent who is blackmailed into letting a dangerous package pass through security checkpoints before a flight on Christmas Day. Although it was just bad luck, the fact that Kopek has a history of not exposing himself to anything initially seems interesting to the terrorist (Bateman), because he has the profile of a coward. Of course, that’s not quite the case.

Kopek’s panic is growing, but the one who doesn’t read him well is the bad guy. In fact, Bateman is very good as the villain because his good-natured face works perfectly with the cynicism of his character. The intentionally simple plot tries to be compensated with action scenes (like the fight inside a high-speed car), and it is very faithful to what Die Hard was 36 years ago: fun and tense, even if irrelevant.

I won’t deny that I missed the original. But for now? It worked great.

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