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

Red One may not be as terrible as many have expected it to be, thanks to some charming moments, but is still largely a holly-jolly misfire.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s career has been defined by movies that resemble AI-generated parodies, although few have been quite as aggressively mediocre as Red One, which hits theaters Nov. 15. A big-budget,