Red One” is a sour sugarplum of a Christmas treat, a cheerfully cynical action comedy for kids — especially the ones who asked Santa Claus for ninja stars and a Nerf gun. Director Jake Kasdan (“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”) and screenwriter Chris Morgan (“Fast Five”) present their take on Santa as a muscle-bound alpha male (J.

Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans have to save Christmas in "Red One," an earnest holiday action movie that somehow forgets to have fun.

Dwayne Johnson said a screening of “Oppenheimer” in Imax inspired him to make sure his new Christmas action movie, “Red One,” would be able to play in the premium large format. Johnson sat in the same Imax screening room that Christopher Nolan uses to screen his movies and was blown away by “Oppenheimer.