An attempt to make the Christmas movie classic for the current generation?
Even though it plays in cinemas, it is also available from Prime Video and it is even included in your subscription. This is for the better, because the film is not that good.
In a bit of a superhero action comedy style, we follow master thief Jack and head of Santa’s security Callum Drift who have to find Santaclaus who has been kidnapped on Christmas Eve, the busiest evening of the year. Santa lives in a high tech village on the North pole, having elves, trolls and polar bears as personnel and high-tech transport, but also powerful enemies.
The film is full of Christmas time morality. Drift woes that nowadays half of the earth’s population is on “the naughty list”, Santa explains how he tries to appeal to the child in people, etc. There are also a few amusing details such as a Krampus, which may be a somewhat unknown element of the time of the year for many people.
So a chase that includes fighting snow men, magic, secret passage ways and all that. The film appears to be aimed at the whole family, which is perhaps why it is just another Hollywood production. Not boring, but nothing out of the ordinary.
