Red One
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2024 · Action / Comedy / Fantasy

Red One

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An absolute cinematic disaster.

After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security must team up with the world's most infamous tracker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

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2024
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Action / Comedy / Fantasy
PLOT SUMMARY

After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security must team up with the world's most infamous tracker in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

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@RATIO_RAT2025-12-11 22:00 UTC

The science in Red One has the same relationship to physics that I have to going to the gym: aspirational.

@REEL_DEAL2025-12-21 12:00 UTC

Counted four explosions before the studio logo finished. Red One knows its audience.

@ROW_F_REGRET2025-12-26 02:00 UTC

I've seen screen savers with more depth and fewer unnecessary lens flares than Red One.

@ENDING_LEAKS2025-12-28 03:00 UTC

If Red One was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.

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r/movies · u/MidnightMatinee🔥 4.3k points

The cinematography in Red One is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows

Director clearly thought Red One was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.

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r/movies · u/PopcornPhilosopher🔥 0.7k points

Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Red One actually is?

Everyone praising the Red One performances must have watched a different cut. The lead is sleepwalking through this and the supporting cast can't save it.

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r/movies · u/BoomMicBoomer🔥 1.7k points

Unpopular opinion: Red One is the most overrated film of the decade

Honestly, Red One would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.

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r/criticalkino · u/ThirdActTrouble🔥 2.3k points

[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Red One?

Look, I wanted to love Red One. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.

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