{"id":17254,"date":"2025-02-25T21:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17254"},"modified":"2025-02-23T21:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T02:50:12","slug":"carry-on-2024-jaume-collet-serra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17254","title":{"rendered":"Carry-On (2024, Jaume Collet-Serra)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Gordon-Edgerton? &#8211; Of the <em>Tetris<\/em> movie, I guess? &#8211; is playing TSA Agent Joey while evil remorseless terrorist Michael Bluth threatens his disney-cute gf Sofia and Agent Deadwyler puts the clues together to help out.  <em>Upgrade<\/em> star Joey Logan-Green is a fake cop who gets in a big <em>Children of Men<\/em> car-fight with the agent, <em>Nanny<\/em>&#8216;s Sinqua Walls is a coworker who&#8217;s gotta get gotten rid of, and Son of Anarchy Theo is Bluth&#8217;s hit man.  The tension of the useless guy getting coerced into helping blow up a plane is all on point, but the attempts at deeper characterization and psychoanalysis and Joey&#8217;s redemption arc only serve to drag the movie to the full two-hour mark.  Lately everything reminds me of <em>Red Eye<\/em>, so why do I not simply rewatch <em>Red Eye<\/em>?  Maybe the least-good Joey Gordon-Serra film I&#8217;ve seen (and I skipped the obviously bad ones).  Closing credits are excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Gordon-Edgerton? &#8211; Of the Tetris movie, I guess? &#8211; is playing TSA Agent Joey while evil remorseless terrorist Michael Bluth threatens his disney-cute gf Sofia and Agent Deadwyler puts the clues together to help out. Upgrade star Joey Logan-Green is a fake cop who gets in a big Children of Men car-fight with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2372,3045,1889,1941],"class_list":["post-17254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-jaume-collet-serra","tag-mad-bomber","tag-plane-crash","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17310,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17254\/revisions\/17310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}