Christmas action-comedy Red One looks set to be a financial and critical disappointment, but the movie may have been more successful had it been made 10 years ago. The film has received mostly negative reviews, and with an absurdly high budget, Red One seems like it will be unlikely to make its money back. These combined factors clearly put Red One on the back foot, but there's another, perhaps more surprising reason that the film's 2024 release was likely to always end in failure.

Red One's cast is, at least in a vacuum, a perfect mix to attract the movie-going public to the theaters, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Chris Evans as its dual protagonists, with plenty of other well-known actors in supporting roles. However, with Red One's poor reviews and the changes in how people view their movies, the film seems like a product of a bygone age.