Carry-On: A Refreshingly Old-Fashioned Thriller

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Carry-On: A Refreshingly Old-Fashioned Thriller
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Carry-On, directed by Jaume Collet-Sera, follows Taron Egerton as Ethan, a TSA officer caught in a Christmas Day terrorist plot at LAX. Forced to let a suspicious bag through security by a mysterious villain (Jason Bateman), Ethan must choose between his duty and the safety of his pregnant girlfriend (Sofia Carson). The film delivers a tense, grounded thriller with impressive visuals and a refreshingly old-fashioned approach to storytelling.

Directed by Jaume Collet-Sera , Carry-On is a simple idea intricately executed. Taron Egerton , erstwhile Elton John impersonator and Kingsman of England, plays a humble TSA officer, Ethan, who becomes a pawn in a nefarious terrorist plot unfolding at LAX on Christmas. He’s connected via bluetooth to a mysterious villain—played with effective offhandedness by Jason Bateman —and told to let a particular bag through security. If he doesn’t, dire things will happen to his pregnant girlfriend, Nora .

Egerton is a winsome everyman lead, mellowing the rakish charm he employed so effectively in the Kingsman movies and replacing it with a sympathetic, workmanlike decency. His character is frustrated about his career; he’s ambitious but not exactly a go-getter. There’s something sweetly relatable about him, even if his grand wish is to become a cop. Bateman is the calm, almost affably evil counterpart to that earnest moxie, exhibiting a chilling confidence as he cruelly spars with Egerton.

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