Director Jake Kasdan’s latest pairing with Johnson after a couple of Jumanji reboots finds the actor taking on the tight red and green uniform of Callum Drift (a great, stupid action hero name for what that’s worth). Callum is the stoic, by-the-books bodyguard to Ol’ Santa Claus himself, played by a jacked J.K. Simmons (Whiplash). He’s on his way to retirement after hundreds of years of being Santa’s bodyguard, bro, and weightlifting partner. He tires of humanity’s growth in naughtiness, and sees them as a lost cause in keeping the holiday cheer going. Santa, though, believes in the better side of people; that genuine care and love for others ultimately trumps selfish, greedy desires.
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