The theatrical film "Red One: Operation Winter" released on November 8 is obviously more suitable to be released around Christmas. The theme is the story of rescuing Santa Claus. Strong Johnson creates a sense of contrast in a movie full of fairy tale world. The overall tone is s

The theatrical film "Red One: Operation Winter" , which was released on November 8, is obviously more suitable to be released around Christmas. The theme is the story of rescuing Santa Claus. Strongman Johnson In such a movie full of fairy tale world, a certain sense of contrast is formed. The overall tone is still positive, taking the route of warmth and healing. However, you should lower your expectations. The texture of the blockbuster you imagine does not have such a strong visual impact. It is a weekend family-friendly commercial entertainment film.

Let’s start with the villain witch Grila . This character is a child star who has appeared in the American TV series " Mad Men " Kiernan Shipka played. Because the origin of the story is that she hijacked Santa Claus Nick and wanted to use Nick's super powers to punish those who made mistakes and committed crimes in real life.

This is obviously a very dangerous move, which is almost destroying all mankind. Because whether it is crime or lying, as well as human beings' usual bad habits, the targets of punishment can be said to include everyone. And Grila wanted to punish these so-called naughty people, those on the so-called naughty list. The punishment is to imprison these people in a crystal ball forever.

The way to break this crystal ball is actually not complicated. It requires the imprisoned person to become more sincere than before and realize his past mistakes. At this level, we have to talk about one of the protagonists, Jack O'Malley (played by Chris Evans in "Captain America"). He is a bounty hunter in the human world who is good at stealing and nicknamed "Old Wolf". It was he who revealed the coordinates of Santa Claus while doing illegal transactions, and the other party was the person assigned by Grila.

Grila put O'Malley and his son Dylan into crystal balls respectively. It was under such extreme circumstances that O'Malley confessed his failure as a father. Of course, as a person who makes a living by stealing, he still has many things to confess. What changed him was precisely this unexpected adventure cooperation, especially the process of rescuing Santa Claus with the security director who protects Santa Claus, Callum (played by Dwayne Johnson), which made him get to know Santa again. own.

Like what is designed in many genre films, Callum was about to resign after completing his last mission, but he happened to catch up with Santa Claus who was hijacked. The director played by Lucy Liu found O'Malley who revealed the coordinates. After interrogation, they were convinced that although this person was a thief, he did not know who the other party's dealer was. But he can find the dealer through tracking, so despite initially hating each other, O'Malley and Callum embark on the road to find Santa Claus.

After learning that the witch Griela had hijacked Santa Claus, the two male protagonists also went to the territory of Santa Claus' brother Krampus and then learned what Griela would do with the crystal ball. I still have to complain about Krampus's appearance. His image is very similar to the Bull Demon King in "Journey to the West". His actor Christopher Helvey has appeared in the classic American drama "Game of Thrones". The scene where he and Callum slap each other in the face is still a very memorable point in the film.

Since Johnson is here, even if the film is not mainly action scenes, there will still be some fighting scenes.In order to enhance the comedy effect, some tricks and surprises that are unexpected by the audience will be set up here. For example, before fighting that mercenary, you could probably think of nothing more than common boxing and kicking skills. But when the opponent punches over, Callum can use a device on his right arm to shrink himself, and then flexibly restore himself to normal size without losing any time, catching the opponent off guard. The arm equipment

adds more fun to the video and also helps Callum a lot in actual combat. When Trump and Trump slap each other, it is precisely because of this equipment that they can slap the opponent down, otherwise they will not be opponents at all. Among the zoom-in and zoom-out functions, the most practical one is to turn a toy model car (which is only about the size of a palm) bought in the store into a drivable car after using the zoom-in function.

The whole film can be regarded as a long fighting scene, that is, fighting the snowman sent by the witch. In a head-to-head confrontation, neither Callum nor O'Malley can be the opponent of the snowman. But then Callum discovered the trick. As long as he pulled out the snowman's carrot nose, they would turn into a puddle of snow.

There is another twist in the story setting, that is, the witch Grila created a lot of "smoke bombs" for Callum and the others. They thought that Santa Claus was taken to another place, but in fact it was Grila who did not leave after the attack on the castle. The previous car chases and airplanes were all deceptions to make the Red One people search for her all over the world. In fact, she did not leave at all. Move places.

The reason why Griela stayed here is to facilitate the realization of her plan. On the one hand, it is convenient to collect the energy of Santa Claus; on the other hand, she has to drive the car herself, drive the deer, rush to the human world, and implement her plan Imprisonment plan, the car is equipped with countless crystal glass balls. Of course, the result is to trap yourself in a cocoon and imprison yourself in the ball. Those who defeated her were also those deer who obeyed Santa Claus' instructions.

The setting of making people smaller should be called back at the end to illustrate that after Santa Claus shrinks himself, he can shuttle between buildings and rooms more freely, and put Christmas gifts in socks and chimneys. From the above content, we can understand that although the story is calm, the joyful and peaceful atmosphere also contains the innocence of childhood and the regret and self-reflection of the adult world. So, in this way, this film seems to be a fantasy blockbuster, but it is more like a short essay about the fairy tale world.