The Rock as Santa's head of security Callum Drift is inoffensive and non-descript, The Rock phones it in which for him still means there some magnetism there. Chris Evans as Jack O'malley(the hacker who helped locate Santa for the villain inadvertently and is forced to help get him back) is doing something we've seen him do before(wisecracking jerk with a heart) but with less success. Lucy Liu and J.K. Simmons aren't in the movie enough to make much of an impression unfortunately. There's not much in the way of a supporting cast beyond that but they're all serviceable aside from the heavy Kiernan Shipka as Grýla who is miscast and Kristofer Hivju as Krampus who is excellently cast.
The action is all pretty generic, the CGI plentiful and cheap looking, the score forgettable, the story mostly sedentary and predictable(other than the inspired interlude in Krampus's domain). It's all tailor made to be a streaming success- big names, box office flop, critically panned, absurd premise- not enough to get a lot of folks to the theater but absolutely enough to get people to watch it when it shows up on a streaming service they already pay for. And as that implies it is just good enough to watch for free.
An odd, corporate, curiosity.
Currently streaming on Prime.
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