CARRY-ON

It’s Christmas Eve and LAX is packed with over 60,000 travellers. Transport Security Officer Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) gets compromised when an unnamed character (played by Jason Bateman) threatens the safety of his finance if he doesn’t let a bag containing a bo*b pass through screening. The bad guys have tapped into the airports cctv cameras and can follow Kopeks every move. A few people get kil*ed and a chaotic game of cat and mouse ensues. With many far-fetched scenes (like the one where Kopek opens the cargo hold door of a moving aircraft from the outside while it’s taxiing along the runway!) it felt a bit like a poor man’s ’Die Hard’. On the plus side, it wasn’t slow, even if the plot challenges the limits of credibility. Labeled as a thriller, it didn’t provide any thrills but check it out if you prefer action over realism.