El Camino Christmas

El Camino Christmas

Release date: (2017 December 8)

Availability: Global

Netflix Distributed Movie

Plot:

The dark comedy  follows a young man searching for his father, and through no fault of his own, ends up barricaded in a liquor store with five other people on Christmas Eve. A drifter, a drunk, a deputy, a reporter, and a single mom are about to experience a wild Christmas they never saw coming.  The story takes place in the fictitious town of El Camino, NV.

Review:
Rating: Watch it / [It depends] / Skip it

• This takes the cheesy holiday happy ending movie and makes it much darker. It blends a cop abusing his power with comically inept cops. It feels like two movies smashed together, creating a strange tone that I couldn't figure out. At times I thought this was trying to sneak in a message, but ultimately it doesn't. While it has a predictable ending, like many holiday movies do, the body count distinguishes this from the genre. It could almost be a character study, but the 'revelation' isn't that big and too many characters are there to only serve the plot. This has a lot of the pieces, but they don't quite fit.

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Links:

• Watch the trailer 

Cast:

• Tim Allen
• Vincent D'Onofrio
• Dax Shepard
• Luke Grimes
• Jessica Alba
• Kurtwood Smith

Trivia:

• Hidden Figures director Ted Melfi. Melfi has wanted to make this movie for ten years.