Starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, the film uneasily splits the distance between fizzy family-targeted comedy and "Mission: Impossible"-style team action.

Red One” is a holiday fantasy built on the retribution, punishment and crushed hopes we deserve right now. It imagines a nightmarish mass-incarceration scenario put in motion by a Christmas witch seeking revenge on billions worldwide who’ve landed on Santa’s previously unenforced “naughty list.