Red One offers Christmas-branded synergy for Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, with little room for invention or genuine good cheer.

Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans wish you a very bro Christmas with “Red One,” full of slap fights, he-man snowmen and one jacked Santa. Director Jake Kasdan’s yuletide fantasy adventure (★★ out of four;

The actor stars in Jake Kasdan’s action-comedy as the North Pole’s head of security, who sets out to save Santa after he is kidnapped.

Dwayne Johnson has recently revealed that the inspiration behind releasing his upcoming movie Red One in IMAX was none other than Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. The upcoming Jake Kasdan directorial features Chris Evans and JK Simmons alongside Johnson.

Dwayne Johnson is pleased with his latest movie, Red One, and believes it should be released on Imax screens like Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. In an interview, the Black Adam actor said that he watched Nolan’s World War II epic in the same Imax screening room the director uses to screen his films.

Anyway, it is a testament to the enormous strangeness of the statement in question that Johnson has now said something that trips even our finely honed Dwayne Johnson bullshit detectors: Claiming he took even a modicum of inspiration for his “militarized Santa Claus bodyguard crew” movie Red One from Christopher Nolan’s biopic blockbuster Oppenheimer.

Dwayne Johnson treated the crew of his new holiday action film big time, says costar Chris Evans. In an interview with PEOPLE while promoting their new film Red One in Berlin, Evans, 43, said Johnson,