Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju, Kiernan Shipka, Mary Elizabeth Ellis
Director: Jake Kasdan
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 124 min.

This ambitious $250 million adventure with the Christmas myth has a sprawling scale but there’s very little to cheer about.

Amazon MGM’s action-adventure Christmas film is a modern take on the Jolly ole St Nick myth but the re-imagined version and modern tech on display is not the kind of entertainment that tradition loving cine goers are likely to cotton on to. The scale is bigger but not better even though the narrative spreads itself all around the globe, has A-list stars, and reindeer with the ability to hyperspace travel.