It was the flightmare before Christmas.
Crewmembers and TSA agents alike took pot-shots at Netflix’s hit holiday airport movie “Carry-On,” which they felt took greater than a couple of creative liberties when it got here to airport security.
The flight-knuckle thriller follows TSA agent Ethan Kopek (Taron Edgerton) as he tries to outfox a mysterious traveler (Jason Bateman) who blackmails him into “letting a dangerous package slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.”
“Carry-On” quickly took Netflix by storm, topping the platform’s global top 10 charts with a powerful 42 million views during its first week, Newsweek reported.
Channeling their best impression of those ubiquitous “expert reviews” series, crewmembers poked many a hole within the flick’s narrative fuselage.
In a recent TikTok video taking off online, stewardess Camille (@camilleintheclouds) and an unidentified male flight attendant, ripped into the scene where Bateman’s character enters the galley.
“I tell people to get the f – – k out of the galley,” exclaimed the incredulous air host, causing Camille to cackle.
Equally ridiculous, per the pair, was the prospect of Bateman lifting the aircraft’s carpet sans any repercussions or the hatch within the aisle that anyone can access and walk all the way down to where people load and unload the baggage.
Jessica Mayle, a spokeswoman for the TSA, also flagged lots of the inaccuracies, including a scene where agents play “contraband bingo” with confiscated items.
“We’ve never heard about anyone playing checkpoint bingo — and positively not with things permitted in carry-on baggage,” she told Newsweek. “TSA highlights unusual prohibited items on social media, but such games aren’t a part of our operations.”
She also thumbed her nose on the notion within the movie that passengers can refuse scanner screenings sans major consequences.
“All passengers should be screened before entering the sterile area of the airport. Within the rare instances passengers refuse, they’re denied access,” she observed.
One other aspect that forced Mayle to suspend disbelief? The concept a single TSA agent could cause such a significant security breach with the protocols they’ve in place.
“Given TSA’s layered approach to security, with intelligence and risk evaluation as a basis, it’s unlikely the scenarios the movie presented could evade the TSA airport security apparatus on the nation’s airports,” she said.
And never, under any circumstances, would an airport resume normal operations during a security breach like what’s portrayed within the movie, in response to Mayle.
Coincidentally, a few of the more unbelievable-seeming plot points were actually spot-on, per the safety expert, who explained that identical to within the movie, a student could use a student ID if bereft of other types of identification.
Nonetheless, she noted that said traveler would should undergo additional identification vetting, which might likely result in delays.
And, while “Carry-On” seemed rife with more inaccuracies than “Soul Plane,” Mayle said she felt it did an excellent job capturing the spirit of the TSA.
“The film ultimately portrayed our front-line workforce in an excellent light, even when the essential character didn’t make the perfect decisions initially,” she declared.
Meanwhile, film writers overwhelmingly lauded the film, which holds an 87%-fresh rating amongst critics on Rotten Tomatoes, while also noting that it puddle-jumps the shark by way of accuracy.
“‘Carry-On’ is a preposterous but entertaining thrill ride about an airport security agent caught up in a deadly terrorist plot involving a smuggled carry-on suitcase,” said Carla Hay, editor-in-chief at Culture Mix. “The movie doesn’t take itself seriously and has well-cast heroes and villains.”
It was the flightmare before Christmas.
Crewmembers and TSA agents alike took pot-shots at Netflix’s hit holiday airport movie “Carry-On,” which they felt took greater than a couple of creative liberties when it got here to airport security.
The flight-knuckle thriller follows TSA agent Ethan Kopek (Taron Edgerton) as he tries to outfox a mysterious traveler (Jason Bateman) who blackmails him into “letting a dangerous package slip onto a Christmas Eve flight.”
“Carry-On” quickly took Netflix by storm, topping the platform’s global top 10 charts with a powerful 42 million views during its first week, Newsweek reported.
Channeling their best impression of those ubiquitous “expert reviews” series, crewmembers poked many a hole within the flick’s narrative fuselage.
In a recent TikTok video taking off online, stewardess Camille (@camilleintheclouds) and an unidentified male flight attendant, ripped into the scene where Bateman’s character enters the galley.
“I tell people to get the f – – k out of the galley,” exclaimed the incredulous air host, causing Camille to cackle.
Equally ridiculous, per the pair, was the prospect of Bateman lifting the aircraft’s carpet sans any repercussions or the hatch within the aisle that anyone can access and walk all the way down to where people load and unload the baggage.
Jessica Mayle, a spokeswoman for the TSA, also flagged lots of the inaccuracies, including a scene where agents play “contraband bingo” with confiscated items.
“We’ve never heard about anyone playing checkpoint bingo — and positively not with things permitted in carry-on baggage,” she told Newsweek. “TSA highlights unusual prohibited items on social media, but such games aren’t a part of our operations.”
She also thumbed her nose on the notion within the movie that passengers can refuse scanner screenings sans major consequences.
“All passengers should be screened before entering the sterile area of the airport. Within the rare instances passengers refuse, they’re denied access,” she observed.
One other aspect that forced Mayle to suspend disbelief? The concept a single TSA agent could cause such a significant security breach with the protocols they’ve in place.
“Given TSA’s layered approach to security, with intelligence and risk evaluation as a basis, it’s unlikely the scenarios the movie presented could evade the TSA airport security apparatus on the nation’s airports,” she said.
And never, under any circumstances, would an airport resume normal operations during a security breach like what’s portrayed within the movie, in response to Mayle.
Coincidentally, a few of the more unbelievable-seeming plot points were actually spot-on, per the safety expert, who explained that identical to within the movie, a student could use a student ID if bereft of other types of identification.
Nonetheless, she noted that said traveler would should undergo additional identification vetting, which might likely result in delays.
And, while “Carry-On” seemed rife with more inaccuracies than “Soul Plane,” Mayle said she felt it did an excellent job capturing the spirit of the TSA.
“The film ultimately portrayed our front-line workforce in an excellent light, even when the essential character didn’t make the perfect decisions initially,” she declared.
Meanwhile, film writers overwhelmingly lauded the film, which holds an 87%-fresh rating amongst critics on Rotten Tomatoes, while also noting that it puddle-jumps the shark by way of accuracy.
“‘Carry-On’ is a preposterous but entertaining thrill ride about an airport security agent caught up in a deadly terrorist plot involving a smuggled carry-on suitcase,” said Carla Hay, editor-in-chief at Culture Mix. “The movie doesn’t take itself seriously and has well-cast heroes and villains.”
