We kinda dug Carry-On here at Last Movie Outpost. It was a refreshingly simple, straightforward thriller that felt like a throwback to the 1980s. An airport, a terrorist threat, Christmas, Die Hard 2 vibes. We just wanted to be entertained and Carry-On scratched that itch.
It turns out we are not alone. The reviews are good, and the numbers are even better. The reviews say it is Jaume Collet-Serra’s best film since The Shallows, which I still say is arguably the best shark movie outside of Jaws and Jaws 2. The scores give it 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, a solid score for a low-budget actioner.
The budget was a staggeringly small $47 million. Unheard of in streaming terms.
The streaming numbers reported by Whats On Netflix paint it as the biggest debut of the year with 42 million views in 3 days, in the same ballpark as Extraction 2.
Carry-On stars Taron Egerton, Sofia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, and Jason Bateman.
The movie was shot in and around New Orleans, doubling for LA, and follows Egerton as a frustrated slacker of a TSA agent who becomes embroiled in a plot by Jason Bateman’s mysterious traveler to let a dangerous package onto a plane, in the process threatening the one thing left in his life likely to motivate him.
It is streaming now on Netflix.