Flight attendant roasts ‘unrealistic’ Netflix holiday hit Carry-On
An off-duty flight attendant shared his hilarious reaction while watching the hit holiday movie Carry-On.
The unidentified man and his fellow flight attendant Camille (@camilleinthecloud) spent their Saturday evening watching the Netflix film.
Camille couldn’t stop laughing at her friend’s take on the “unrealistic” holiday movie in a Dec. 29 TikTok video.
The film topped Netflix’s most-watched list after its debut on December 13, despite the disbelief of those who work on planes in real life.
The social media video shows the flight attendant commenting after seeing the traveler (Jason Bateman) enter the galley – a kitchen area on an airplane.
The unidentified flight attendant claimed he would tell fliers to leave the galley and said Bateman’s character should not have lifted the plane’s carpet.
Camille was equally surprised, wondering where the plane’s cargo hatch was located: a door that allowed access to anyone loading or unloading luggage.
An unknown flight attendant had a hilarious reaction to the Netflix movie Carry-On in a TikTok video while watching a scene with Jason Bateman
The film centers on a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent named Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) who sets out to outsmart a blackmailing aviator known as the “Traveler” (Bateman) on Christmas Eve.
Bateman’s devious character demanded Kopek let a carry-on bag through airport security, claiming he would kill the cop’s pregnant girlfriend, Nora (Sofia Carson), if he didn’t follow his orders.
Despite the film’s score of 87 percent on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, TSA spokesperson Jessica Mayle agreed that many of the Carry-On scenes were unrealistic.
According to Mayle, passengers should be screened before entering certain areas of an airport and flyers who refuse to follow this rule would be “denied access to those areas.”.
“Given TSA’s layered approach to security, with intelligence and risk analysis at its core, it is unlikely that the scenarios the film presented could bypass the TSA airport security apparatus at the nation’s airports,” she said. Newsweek.
‘TSA always operates at a high level of security and employees are constantly vigilant. The agency takes a risk-based, intelligence-led approach that includes multiple layers of security, both visible and invisible,” Mayle added.
The film revolves around TSA agent Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) who tries to outsmart a blackmailing traveler (Bateman).
Several TikTokers who watched Camille’s video were amused by her friend’s opinion.
One audience member wrote that they were “obsessed” with TikTok and claimed the flight attendant spoke for all flight attendants around the world.
Others agreed about the comment in the galley, with one person calling it “so real.”
A commenter claiming to be a baggage handler was as frustrated as the male flight attendant, wondering why there was a refrigerator in the galley.
Realistic or not, film critics didn’t let the unrealistic scenes stop them from praising Carry-On.
The traveler claimed he would kill the cop’s pregnant girlfriend, Nora (Sofia Carson), if the cop didn’t follow through on his demands
One critic of Empire magazine wrote: ‘Die Hard karaoke this may be, but it delivers – and overshadows at least two of John McClane’s outings in the process.’
“Look forward to future eye-opening debates over whether the film qualifies as a Christmas movie,” they added.
“Even as the repeated confrontations between the TSA agent and the traveler lose steam, these actors maintain the tension of the story and the viewer’s investment,” one critic wrote for The Hollywood Reporter.
“As their rivalry slowly becomes one of two equals, the question of how one could outsmart the other becomes part of the tension.”
Several critics who trashed the film were more disappointed with the performances than the unrealistic actions of TSA officers.
“The result is a hamstrung thriller that feels cheaper than it should, like a long episode of FOX’s 9-1-1, bogged down by a sense of malaise that radiates outward from its protagonist in waves,” wrote a critic for Paste magazine.
One critic of Bluray.com claimed the movie went ‘bananas’ and another one out FandomWire insisted that Carry-On felt like a studio was saying, “Let’s make a movie that answers the question, ‘Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?’